JRH Communications

Jonny Harris: Communications Consultant

What I do

I adapt to whatever shape fits the moment. That might be as a freelancer to add capacity, or as an independent adviser to guide strategy and decision-making. I stay closely aligned with internal teams and external advisers, so communications are joined up and focused on your goals.

  • I work with leading PR firms on a project basis, adding senior capacity when you need it most. I support crisis and litigation comms, legal PR, and targeted campaigns, from strategy through to delivery. I am used to stepping into live matters, building momentum, and keeping messaging disciplined. I work quietly in the background, as an extension of your team.

  • I offer a broad set of communications support to help organisations achieve their marketing and communications goals through proactive stakeholder engagement.

    Whether you need a planned launch, a sustained programme to build profile and trust, or a fast response to an issue, I will build a clear plan, tighten the messaging, and help you deliver it properly. The focus is on showing up with the right message, to the right audiences, at the right time, across press, digital, partners, customers, and internal stakeholders.

    Types of work include:

    • Securing coverage in the right outlets, local, trade and national

    • Clarifying your positioning, voice and key messages

    • Writing social content that sounds like you and lands with your audience

    • Supporting credible engagement in community and social groups, consistently and on brand

    • Making the right introductions, influencers, collaborators, advisers and potential clients

    • Planning and promoting launches, pop ups, events and key stakeholder moments

    • Developing campaign ideas, offers and hooks that generate genuine attention

    • Improving customer emails and follow up communications

    • Writing and refining website copy, bios, profiles, brochures and core narratives

    • Identifying low-effort, high-impact ways to boost visibility and footfall

  • I build and run long-term class action campaigns that shape outcomes, not just headlines, leading the strategy, messaging and media engagement from launch through key milestones. I have helped launch and scale several group claims, including the Student Group Claim and the Car Financing Claim, keeping claimants aligned behind a clear, credible narrative while protecting the litigation strategy. For the Student Group Claim, I helped grow the claimant book from 18,000 to over 180,000 through targeted outreach, partnerships and media activity, securing global coverage.

  • I build and run long-term campaigns that shape outcomes, not just headlines. That includes launching and scaling class actions, delivering philanthropic or public-interest programmes, and creating policy debate that moves the centre of gravity on an issue. I lead the strategy, messaging and media engagement, and I stay on it through delivery.

  • For crisis and litigation communications, I provide reputation management when the stakes are high and the facts are moving fast. I help you take control of the narrative, protect trust with key audiences, and reduce avoidable legal and reputational risk. This includes rapid response planning, media handling, stakeholder messaging, and preparing you for difficult questions, all aligned with legal strategy. The work is practical, discreet, and focused on getting you through the moment with your reputation intact.

About Jonny

I am an experienced PR and communications adviser specialising in profile raising, reputation management, and strategic media engagement for companies and individuals. As a qualified solicitor, accredited mediator, and former press regulator, I bring a rare understanding of how media narratives, stakeholder expectations, and legal risk can intersect, and how to use that insight to communicate with confidence.

My role is to help clients build, promote and defend their public profile. I develop messaging and brand narratives, secure and shape media coverage, and run proactive PR programmes across press, digital, and stakeholder channels. This includes launches, thought leadership, executive profiling, partnerships, awards strategy, speaker opportunities, comment and reactive positioning, and day-to-day press office support.

I advise both individuals and organisations across most sectors, including entertainment, professional services, education, philanthropy, retail and sports. I am hands-on in delivery, representing clients directly, organising campaigns end-to-end, and ensuring consistent follow-through.

Alongside proactive PR, I support clients through sensitive or high-pressure moments, aligning communications with legal and operational realities and helping teams stay calm, credible, and coordinated. I work closely with journalists and media outlets to encourage fair, accurate, and responsible coverage, and I can step in at short notice to manage media demand when it matters most.

  • “I worked with Jonny for six months on a deeply sensitive lived experience. He combined compassion with calm professionalism, went the extra mile and genuinely cared. He secured wide coverage that kept critical issues on the agenda and informed policy debate. I recommend him without hesitation."

    —Former Client

  • “Jonny is an excellent example of someone who knows his work well, and is also a thoroughly nice person. This blend of characteristics is rare. I would have no hesitation in recommending Jonny in the highest terms."

    —Former Client

  • “Jonny's instinctive knowledge and ability to hone in on the crucial elements of difficult cases, along with his constant advice and support in 'holding the line' when I was under severe pressure, will never be forgotten and cannot be sufficiently appreciated. ”

    —Former Client

  • “Jonny is an exceptional practitioner. He has an ability to understand and grasp complex matters incredibly quickly in order to be in a position to give immediate advice when this is urgently required is truly outstanding. ”

    -Former Client

Get in Touch

E: Jonny.Harris@jrhcommunications.co.uk
M: 07522574293