Freya Barnes
I do PR & storytelling for social change. Comms counsel to charities, think tanks & public figures. Previously Engage Britain, Shelter.
Nature & politics. Weird about The Beatles. Aspiring goat owner🐐
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- Please send wishes to my friend who has gone home for Christmas this evening to a peach, cheese and pork pie salad.
- Good morning. Have you, like me, just realised your 'quiet week' now contains 11 meetings, endless redrafts and a migraine? Please take ten minutes with your favourite mug to sit in the sunshine. It will make everything so much easier to face
- Genuinely devastating that such a courageous woman couldn't bear the toll of her experiences in the end. So many abuse survivors are still tragically failed. We need to do so much better at understanding it, and holding abusers accountable. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
- So excited to dive into this new @ianleslie.bsky.social book. I've always found the Lennon McCartney relationship endlessly fascinating, touching, extraordinary in its impact on the world. Glad that finally their story is being properly told.
- Seeing a great PR lobbying response from the charity sector to the latest welfare cut proposals - advocacy doesn't have to be months in the making 🧵 www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
- At a time when we all need a little more positivity, it was lovely to help get this story into the Guardian. So many third sector leaders have a fascinating backstory about why we're doing what we do and why the things that matter to us matter. We should be telling them! gwitness.org/41uBGev
- Why do some campaigns fail to shift public opinion, while others break through? Research last week from @moreincommonuk.bsky.social shows progressive activists (like me and lots of you) are less likely to collaborate with political rivals than other groups. That’s a huge problem 🧵
- Have I found the loveliest coffee place to work from in London?
- Winter in this country is absolutely unacceptable and I don't know why we all continue to put up with it.
- This is not only horrendous for the journalists but will make it so much harder for the paper to report on important social issues - and for us charity PR people to get our stories over the line.
- Sometimes you just can't beat a good hut.
- A blow out celebration for the end of January instead of the beginning of it.
- Twitter is a mess. We all know it. That’s why most of us aren’t there anymore. I saw this quote in Politico today and, very painfully, being in charity comms and campaigns I have to agree. Twitter still shapes headlines. Politicians and bad actors use it to push narratives. So what do we do?🧵
- I see there are still far too many people online desperately trying to have edgy opinions about The Beatles. Can't we all just be allowed to enjoy the things we enjoy?
- The way Prince Harry has taken on the tabloids is nothing short of heroic. I hope there's some reflection from broadcast media here about how often their talking points are still set by unreliable press stories. Our media ecosystem has to change in so many ways. www.independent.co.uk/tv/news/prin...
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- Daft Saturday post but it's It's Winnie the Pooh day today and bear with me (pun intended), but here's why I love him as a role model for aspiring thought leaders 🧵🍯
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- The simple pleasure of a cup of coffee, a blank page and an unexpectedly sunny day. Even January can have its moments..
