UK Copywriters Directory - Tone of Voice

  • You'll have the reassurance that any copywriting I do for you has nearly 40 years’ specialist experience behind it - including writing for global brands and on award-winning work. I also run copywriting courses, and have trained several thousand delegates throughout Britain and beyond, including for household name organisations. I just love the power of words (I write in my spare time too). So how can I help? Get in touch to chat about freelance support or about enhancing/refreshing the skills of your in-house team with copywriting training/mentoring. You can email me for a standard agenda or I can create one for your team.

  • ✍️ Senior copywriter with 10+ years marketing and leadership experience 📈 Helping fuel growth at some of Europe's fastest growing fintechs 💻 Founder of copystyleguide.com 🎙️ Host of the Walks With A Copywriter podcast 🐘 Author of Return Of The Wild Services: - Copywriting (web, marketing, comms, UX, SEO) - Brand development (messaging, tone of voice) - Strategy (content planning, SEO) - Training (tone of voice, AI LLMs)

  • CLEA
    Having more than five years’ experience producing creative, academic, and commercial written content, I enjoy grappling with intellectual concepts and ideas. I communicate and write with clarity and precision – a skillset informed by a professional career in the creative writing industry and a first-class degree in Literature from UCL. I work with a range of clients including large business enterprises such as international travel agencies, producing content which conveys brand ethos and expertise to other specialists within the industry. I also enhance the creative and intellectual output of independent clients such as zines, musicians and post-graduate researchers. I have written newsletters and blogs, creative pitches, academic essays, and long-form articles. My approach is to workshop with clients to hone, rationalise, and synthesise intellectual ideas and creative concepts – and to structure those ideas and concepts into tonally coherent and compelling prose. As a specialist in writing copy about and for the arts, I have produced ekphrastic pieces for visual and performance art, interdisciplinary arts essays and articles, arts funding applications, and creative prose and poetry. My background as both cellist and dancer informs my capacity to ‘translate’ across artistic disciplines; my task is to assist clients in conceiving narrative, to communicate concepts and ideas, and to distil a complex vision into a concise script or pitch, summary or application, essay or gallery-wall prose. Through connecting with an audience, funding body, or other experts within an industry, I work with diverse clients to produce copy which is thoughtful, effective, and creative. __________________________________________________________________ ‘Clea is a true wordsmith. She has a remarkable ability to take the vision from your mind and effortlessly transform it into words that clearly and precisely express what you want to say, but don’t know how. I wholeheartedly recommend Clea to anyone seeking a kind, empathetic, effective, and efficient professional.’ - Dalati, musician I really enjoy working with Clea. She always brings great energy, adapts quickly to new tasks or feedback, and consistently delivers high-quality copy. She’s consistent, communicative, and very easy to work with! - Lucy, Extraordinary Britain


  • I turned freelance in 2022 after many years working in internal comms, writing everything from corporate news articles to leader blogs, HR processes and social media posts. Working for a large financial services provider, I quickly became familiar with the UK pensions and savings environment, plus a wealth of HR/colleague engagement topics including recruitment, reward, wellbeing, and diversity, equity and inclusion. Previously I worked on tone of voice, ensuring a consistent experience for customers across all corporate comms. Oh, and I've also edited dictionaries - so I'm a bit of a word geek. I'm open to all types of work, but I'd particularly love to work with ethical and sustainable brands focused on health and wellbeing, food and drink or parenting and family life. As well as copywriting, I offer copy-editing and French-English translation.

  • Hi! Or, 'ey up' as we say in Yorkshire. I'm Anna. I specialise in story-led copy and UX. I have 10+ years' experience writing for hundreds of different brands, particularly in the food and drinks sector. I've recently upskilled by completing a bang up-to-date course in UX writing, so I can deliver consistent, inclusive and user-focused copy that provides real value: www.annaclaytoncopy.co.uk I write: ⭐ Web copy: It's all about the UX! ⭐ Brand copy: Meta descriptions, tone guides, About pages and brand story ⭐ Email marketing ⭐ Online sales letters ⭐ Product descriptions ⭐ Blog posts - SEO optimised that provide real value ⭐ Print copy - leaflets, ads and brochures ⭐ ...And coming soon... brand voice guides! Your results? 📣 Story-led copy that really resonates with your target audience 📣 Copy that converts 📣 A fantastic user-experience that takes your reader by the hand and takes them to where they need to go on your site 📣 Words that sound like your brand spoke them 📣 SEO-optimised, where relevant I particularly love working with value-led brands with a great story to tell (and I can help you work out what that story is!) Here's what one lovely client said about me recently: “Anna is very friendly, warm, easy to talk to and has a fantastic, can-do, positive attitude. She is very focused and passionate about her work, and listened to all my thoughts, leveraging her knowledge and years of experience to make it a perfect fit for us both! I would highly recommend Anna, her enthusiasm really shows through in her work and she is an absolute STAR! A real pleasure to work with and I cannot thank her enough for all her hard work and what she has done for my small business!” — Claire, owner of Bee Inspired Home & Gifts Find me in these places and let's chat over tea (and cake, obviously): 🖋 Portfolio (more samples available - just ask!) www.annaclaytoncopy.co.uk 🖋 LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/annaclaytonwriter/

  • The Broom & Moon story starts with another, older story. Once upon a time in 1962, President John F. Kennedy was touring the NASA headquarters. During the visit, he came across a cleaner sweeping the floor. JFK stopped to ask the cleaner what he did at NASA. The cleaner’s reply? "I’m helping put a man on the moon." This is a story about the power of a clear, concrete and inspiring vision. A sense of purpose. Just like NASA’s scientists and astronauts, the cleaner understood the connection between his small daily steps and NASA’s giant leap. The connection between his broom and the moon. At Broom & Moon, we exist to help you uncover a similar sense of purpose. We’ll help you talk about your brand in a way that speaks to the head and heart of your customers, your team and your potential investors. The result? Faster growth and a bigger impact. Broom & Moon was founded by copywriter Clare Lynch and internal comms expert Teresa North.

  • I'm an experienced copywriter, copyeditor and proofreader based in Brighton. www.copybycat.co.uk


  • As the in-house copywriter at luxury womenswear brand David Nieper, I unite fashion with feeling in stylish, meaningful and carefully edited copy. With a focus on connecting with customers at all stages of their journey, I create inviting, informative blogs, product descriptions and catalogue copy, plus email campaigns that achieve marketing goals. My knowledge and awareness of SEO ensure the best online performance, while my experience in tone of voice keeps our brand's personality consistent and captivating.

  • I'm a copywriter and content marketer, specialising in helping ethical businesses to get started with online writing, including blogs, web pages and social media messaging.

  • Hello, I'm Leanne, I'm a keen writer who loves to be creative! I love to write so you don't have too! Offering a range of copy including website content, social media captions, newsletter content, blogs, slogans, business names, product descriptions and more. Using engaging and exciting copy to entice your customers and get more out of your business. I have worked in a range of communications roles throughout my career including corporate and charity and know that copy is so important for messaging and customer engagement. I have a range of interests including fitness, books, TV series, travel, animals and much more! If you are looking for someone to take the work out of writing for you then drop me a message and let's work together!

  • Writing is a people thing. It's about understanding who you're talking to, why they should care and what they want from you at the time they're reading. I like to think I'm a people person. I definitely like listening, learning people's stories or about new businesses, and getting to the heart of things pretty quickly. That's my general approach to every new brief. I listen to your business challenge, try to understand your audience and then write compelling copy to help you connect with the people who matter and get the impact your business is looking for. I have over 10 years' experience writing for and defining the voice of global brands, ground-breaking start-ups and everything in between. My highlights so far have been defining the voices of Wimbledon, Lidl, Dogs Trust and Barnardo's, running creative careers sessions in schools and colleges across London and being a mentor on the D&AD Shift programme for creatives who are just starting out. Full disclosure, I've got a soft-spot for purpose-driven organisations. And as I've started the name-dropping, here are a few extras in that realm: Comic Relief, Breast Cancer Now, Leukaemia UK, Leonard Cheshire, The Haemophilia Society and UNHCR. I love helping charities, NGOs and non-profits to reach the people who need them, and connect with the people who can support them. In general, I'm a collaborative, creative person and I live for a challenge. And as I said, I love getting to know new people so I'm always up for joining the team in the office, studio or co-working space. Copywriting: Naming, taglines, narratives, manifestos, websites, ads, brochures, posters, employee handbooks, patient leaflets, annual reports... the list is endless and variety is the spice of life. Tone of voice and verbal identity: I worked as Brand Language Director at a brand consultancy before going freelance. This meant running brand voice projects for large-scale organisations like FTSE250 global recruitment company FDM. I can run a brand voice project from start to finish; understanding what's working and what's not, defining a new voice, creating guidelines (that people might actually want to read), and running writing workshops to train people in the voice. Campaigns: I create concepts for social, ATL and OOH ads. Coming up with the hook is my speciality. Things I've done that you might have seen in the wild are Wimbledon's annual ticket concepts and poster campaigns (2017, 2018, 2019), and a national brand campaign and 2x retail campaigns for Barnardo's in 2024. Messaging frameworks: I develop strategic messaging frameworks so that you have a bank of tailored messages ready to copy-and-paste into comms as and when you need them. They're pretty varied but here's a few different kinds to give you an idea: • Core message frameworks. This includes things like a strapline, meta info, google search page bio, headline messaging and an 'about us' story. • Audience-specific headline frameworks include key messages tailored to specific audience groups and aims (e.g. the general public, loyal customers, employees, investors, donors etc). • Some are best when they’re highly specific. For example, a public health messaging framework for Breast Cancer Now (focused on breast checking). What I've been working on recently (in the last year): • Packaging copywriting for Beefeater Gin • Copywriting for Virgin Media 02 • Brand voice principles for F1 • Verbal identity and writing workshops for Barnardo's • Verbal identity and writing workshops for FDM (FTSE250 recruitment firm) • Brand naming and verbal identity for Pivotal (sustainability start-up who've since secured Series B funding) • Packaging copywriting for Ueshima Coffee Company (now the UK's fastest growing coffee brand) What people who've hired me think: "Since Hope walked through our doors seven years ago she's been a ray of sunshine and a delight to work with. She's truly been one of the finest writers we've ever had working for us." - Pete Dewar, Founder of The Clearing (Branding Agency), 2023 "That headline is f*cking brilliant" - Tom Kerridge, Celebrity Chef (Client for Full Time Meals with Marcus Rashford and Tom Kerridge) 2021 "What a gem to find a clear-headed and strategic writer who’s not afraid to have fun with their copy. From the very first moment, Hope dived straight into a very complex project with ease and calm, and lifted a lot of weight off my team. She’s been an especially great help with the naming and strategy side. I can just leave her with a challenge and she’ll come back prepared with not only multiple solutions to choose from but also thorough rationales of her thinking. Hope always goes above and beyond to make sure all avenues are explored and investigated, and you’re never short of options. She’s slotted into our copy team so quickly and naturally, it almost feels like she’s been with us forever and we’ve all really enjoyed working with her." - Oeil Jumratsilpa, Head of Copy, Virgin Media 02, 2024 "In all the years I've been working, Hope is at the top of the list of people I've enjoyed working with the most. Positivity, creativity, energy. She's a joy to work with every day." - Jonathan Hubbard, Founder of The Clearing (Branding Agency), 2023

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