About
Ladbury is a communications consultancy delivering creative and intelligent campaigns for projects we love.
Our small team works on a global scale to amplify socially impactful stories that matter. Every campaign is executed with care and a thoughtfulness for the details that make a difference. Clients range from compact organisations to comprehensive institutions across arts and culture, global health and development, gender equity, and more.
If you have a story, we would like to hear from you.
Rebecca Ladbury
Rebecca Ladbury
Rebecca is an admired global communications expert with over twenty-five years’ experience running national and international communications campaigns in global health and development working across multiple sectors and within governments, local and international NGOs, academia, multi-lateral agencies and with donors.
Rebecca has worked on campaigns for the United Nations, the British Government, Equimundo and The South African Medical Research Council, to name a few. Rebecca’s communication expertise also encompasses issues-led arts and contemporary culture, working with TIME’S UP in the UK, the Royal Opera House, Channel 4 Television, cutting edge contemporary arts commissioners such as Abandon Normal Devices and The Manchester International Arts Festival, as well as individual artists and academics from British Trinidadian sculptor Zak Ové and Harvard History Professor Vincent Brown, and many more. At the start of 2009 Rebecca set up Ladbury Communications, a dynamic consultancy drawing on her combined experience to deliver creative, intelligent campaigns that matter.
She has an MA in the Social Anthropology of Development, with a particular focus on global communications, from SOAS, and a BSc in Anthropology from UCL.
Carolina Beresford
Carolina Beresford
Carolina is a communications strategist and researcher with over fifteen years of experience spanning technology, human rights, and justice. She brings both lived and professional experience from the UK and South America.
She began her career in international sports journalism, contributing to outlets including ESPN, GQ, and The Telegraph. Since then, she has applied her expertise in fast-paced reporting and editorial storytelling to global social impact campaigns. She has also worked on prison-based programmes in the United States, combining on-the-ground engagement with programme design and delivery. In addition, she is involved in human rights advocacy with Amnesty International.
She holds an MA in Human Rights from University College London and a BA in History of Art from University of Bristol.
Ella Sinclair
Ella Sinclair
Ella is a writer, researcher, and communications professional based in London. Throughout all of her work she is committed to social justice, and is passionate about racial and gender equality.
Ella has written for publications including the Guardian, The Voice, The Lead, gal-dem, Cosmopolitan, and Shado-Mag. Her research work engages with British legacies of transatlantic slavery and colonialism, and is designed to amplify under-represented parts of Britain’s history for public engagement. Ella has used her writing, communication, and research expertise to contribute to and inform exhibitions at Manchester Art Gallery, and at the Science and Industry Museum. She has an MA in Race, Ethnicity, and Postcolonial Studies from UCL, and a BSocSC in Social Anthropology from the University of Manchester.
Danya Agababian
Danya Agababian
Danya is a British Armenian senior communications specialist with over 20 years media and communications experience working with broadcasters, arts organisations and national and international NGOs.
Danya’s knowledge of how the media works is second to none, having handled Channel 4’s press across current affairs, specialist factual and entertainment, including Dispatches, Cutting Edge and Big Brother. She brings invaluable expertise in securing high profile consumer coverage for public facing projects. Danya was born in the UK with roots in Iraq, she is a brilliant writer and communicator passionate about violence prevention, gender equality and feminism.
SAnka Pityana
SAnka Pityana
Sanka is a South African researcher specialising in gender studies with a Masters in the Representation of Masculinities in South African Film. She has a keen interest in feminism and has interned at the Sexual Violence Research Initiative.
Rachael Hunt
Rachael Hunt
Communications and operations specialist with a wealth of experience spanning global live events, broadcast media, investigative journalism and Westminster politics. A key member of the Glastonbury Festival Press Office for over a decade, handling international media relations in one of the world’s most demanding communications environments. Combines political insight, editorial expertise and operational skills with a proven track record across satirical TV, documentaries and parliamentary research. Trusted by senior stakeholders, media organisations and public figures to deliver under pressure.
Dame Heather Rabbatts
Co-Founder and Chair, Times Up UK
Ladbury Communications has worked with Time’s Up UK from its very beginning and built a highly effective brand presence together with strategic communications support on a global basis. Time’s Up UK works with multiple stakeholders across the creative industries together with high profile talent and the team at Ladbury have always consistently delivered the highest quality work.
Colin Grant
Director, WritersMosaic
Ladbury Communication is that rare thing: a group of charming, infectiously enthusiastic, creative and conscientious lateral thinkers who bring dynamism and joy to everything they do; it’s been a three year blast working with them.
Jen Smith
CEO, CIISA
Ladbury Communications have provided strategic support for CIISA since its inception. This has included the design and content for our professional website and a number of high-profile press releases which have required nuanced messages to reach a range of audiences. They are able to identify specific tailored opportunities to bring CIISA’s vision and purpose to life, informing a range of stakeholders including our relevant policy makers.
Alex Perry
Africa Bureau Chief, TIME Magazine
Rebecca Ladbury was the first person to turn me onto a subject – malaria – that eventually became a book. The kind of PR journalists pray for and that the world could use more of – honest, efficient, resourceful and extremely well-informed.
Gary Barker
President and CEO, Equimundo: Center for Masculinities and Social Justice
The team at Ladbury Communications bring creativity, passion and an unrivalled energy to all the causes we work on and an impressive global network to all they do. We’ve seen immediate and direct benefits in working with them.
Clare Reddington
CEO, Watershed
Partnership and collaboration are the two main reasons why we choose to continue to work with Rebecca and Danya at Ladbury PR. Ladbury PR have taken the time and energy to build a relationship with, not just their main contacts here at Watershed, but with so many of the artists, creatives and other team members that they meet along the way. They are passionate and extremely knowledgeable with great contacts and they really do care and believe in what we are doing. You are in great hands with Ladbury PR.
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