Sectors
We work with clients across every sector—and because Barndoor Strategy is built as a modern, flexible consultancy, we can scale your team fast. Where a brief needs niche industry knowledge, we bring in trusted specialists to add specific sector experience, while our senior core team stays accountable for strategy, delivery, and results. The four core sectors where our team really excel are:
Financial Services
Barndoor Strategy brings deep, practical experience of shaping financial services policy—working across regulation, Westminster, and with the trade bodies that set the pace for the sector.
Our client list includes some of the UK’s leading challenger banks and fintech institutions, and we’re proud of the results we’ve delivered—helping clients make legislation and regulation work for them, not against them. That means clearer pathways through complex rules, stronger positioning with decision-makers, and smarter strategies that protect growth while unlocking opportunity.
Whether you need to amend legislation, improve regulation, or simply make sure your voice is heard in HM Treasury and the Palace of Westminster, our trusted experts can deliver. We translate your commercial priorities into credible policy arguments, build the right relationships, and run campaigns that shift outcomes—so you can move faster, reduce friction, and compete on a level playing field.
As Secretariat to the All-Party Parliamentary Group on the Future of Financial Services, we don’t just follow the agenda—we help shape it. We are helping to lead the debate on what the UK’s financial services sector will look like in the years ahead, convening serious conversations and turning insight into influence.
Science & Technology
There’s never been a more important moment to engage in science and technology policy—and the businesses that move early are the ones that shape the rules of the game.
We work with a range of tech SMEs and start-ups, established fintechs, and trade bodies to influence the policy and regulatory decisions that will define their growth. And because we support one of the biggest tech trade associations around, we bring a rare combination of grassroots start-up understanding and top-table sector insight.
From AI and data to emerging tech and innovative new ideas, we help you translate complex products into clear, compelling narratives that resonate with non-technical audiences—politicians, policymakers, officials, investors, customers, and the media.
Then we get you in the room: targeted engagement with Government and regulators, smarter stakeholder strategies, and campaigns that build credibility and create opportunity—helping the start-ups of today become the tech giants of tomorrow.
Energy & Environment
Barndoor Strategy brings deep, practical experience across the energy and environment landscape—from the nuclear sector and small modular reactors to Offshore Wind. Global energy policy is developing rapidly. Fossil fuels remain controversial with many decision makers prioritising the climate emergency. However, renewables place unprecedented demands on communities and threaten to displace traditional industries.
Barndoor Strategy’s team has a granular understanding of the impact that widespread renewables have on communities facing the industrialisation of their landscapes.
With energy policy and net zero at the heart UK and devolved government’s agendas, there’s never been a more important moment to get your public affairs and communications strategy right. We help you build credibility with policymakers, engage the right regulators and stakeholders, and run campaigns that protect your licence to operate while unlocking opportunity.
We don’t just track the debate—we help shape it. If you need to navigate complex policy, build support through consultation, or secure the permissions you need to deliver, our bespoke strategies give you the clarity, credibility, and momentum to move projects forward and help your business thrive.
Defence & Security
With war in Europe and a more assertive Russia and China challenging international norms, defence and security is back at the centre of Government decision-making—and the window to influence priorities, funding, and procurement is open right now.
We bring proven experience advising governments, major defence suppliers, and tech businesses—so you can pick through Ministry of Defence bureaucracy and navigate complex defence and security processes with confidence, from policy development to engagement and delivery.
Our senior team helps you communicate in language Government and civil servants understand—turning your capability into a clear proposition that stands up to scrutiny and puts your solutions at the heart of public policy.
Whether you’re a start-up defence manufacturer, a cyber-security pioneer, or a fast-growth supplier, we build the right engagement strategy to raise your profile, open doors, and get you seen at the highest levels—so you can win trust, shape outcomes, and grow.