Our Story

We’re two friends who love telling stories. We’ve worked together for over a decade, making hundreds of beautiful videos for a whole range of brilliant nonprofits and values-driven organisations. And we’ve only ever got 5* reviews – so we like to think we’re pretty good at it. 

Our work has taken us across the globe, to the mountains of Afghanistan, the villages of Sierra Leone, and the volcanoes of Guatemala. And we love it! If there’s a great story to be told, we want to help tell it. Whether we’re hanging out of the side of a pickup truck in Uganda, or chatting in a living room in Oxfordshire.

Meet the team

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Sarah Stone

- Founder -

Sarah heads up the content-side of Stone Barrell. That looks like everything from helping our lovely clients work out what their story is and how best to tell it, to prepping and interviewing the people featured in our videos, and writing and editing video scripts, fundraising appeals, press releases and magazine features. Sarah’s been working in communications since 2013, both in the UK and Afghanistan, and has led content-gathering trips in Asia, Africa, South America and Europe. If you want something written, she’s here to help. She takes nice photos too.

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Jacob Barrell

- Founder -

Jacob is never happier than when he’s managed to frame the perfect shot – whether it’s a two-camera interview setup, or a still photo that completely nails the brief. A videographer, photographer and graphic designer, Jacob has been creating visual content for nonprofits for more than ten years (he doesn’t look old enough, we know). He’s led cinematography for appeals in countries such as Afghanistan, Guatemala, Uganda, and Chad, and is constantly working to perfect his craft. If you need help with your visual storytelling, Jake is your man.

Sarah’s word wizardry + Jake’s visual media prowess + our shared curiosity and love of stories = authentic, highly effective campaigns and videos for absolute gems of organisations.

We'd love you to be one of them.

Our Promise

We’re a people-focused, purpose-driven creative partnership that will:

Find out more about how we can help you, see our services.

Get in touch

Stories have power.
We're here to help you tell yours.

If you want more people to know about the great things you’re doing, we can help. We’ll partner with you from beginning to end, helping you work out who needs to hear your story and how best to tell it, and then creating videos and crafting copy you’ll be excited to share.

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