Who We Are
Matt Kepple

Matt Kepple

Founder of Wahblo

Matt is a Cabinet Office Ambassador for Social Enterprise and Chairman of The Commission for Youth Social Enterprise. At university Matt created and presented the Passion4Fashion show to promote Fairtrade fashion using models, singers, dancers and cheerleaders; the show became an annual event and helped pave the way for large-scale student run events receiving university funding. He has performed in an amateur production of Fame The Musical, taught hip hop dance classes and run charity club-nights. In the final year of his Chemistry with French degree he started Sponsor-a-Kid-for-a-Quid, a scheme which got students and staff to share the cost of sponsoring a child in a developing country. That project won him Channel4’s IDEASFACTORY Award and after spending a year in the world of advertising after graduating, he left his ad agency in order to pilot GRADULICIOUS – a network where recent graduates can find flatmates and a new circle of friends when they move to a different city; and WillWeMakeIt.com – a website for people doing something innovative to raise money for charity.

With the help of an UnLtd Award, Matt is currently working on Wahblo.com, an extension of his original Sponsor-a-Kid-for-a-Quid idea that lets people select any charity project and start donating £1 a month towards it with friends until it reaches its fundraising goal, at which point they receive short updates and notifications on its progress.

Will we make it