Barbara Rainford

Having run my own business since I was 18 and holding committee and board positions for several different organisations for many years, I have a lot of expertise in running organisations and organising events along with many marketing and promotional skills. As a partner in Strawberry Fields I have been responsible for copywriting, PR, and social media for many large and small organisations. I still write articles for local magazines.I now do all the social media for www.meditationalstate.com a YouTube channel of meditation music with over 300,000 subscribers - music therapy that helps people with many mental and physical conditions including insomnia, headaches, chronic pain, tinnitus, anxiety and depression.I am an elected director of Midcounties Co-operative and am passionate about co-operatives and the way they work together to share best practice and I shop there because you can always find an endless selection of ethically sourced,, honestly labelled, locally produced goods, giving you reassurance that the food you put on the table is some of the best you can buy, grown carefully, by producers who are paid properly for their work.I am also passionate about educating our young people properly and I have written a book on our home education journey: Home Education, Separation Anxiety, School Phobia and Panic Attacks, available on Amazon.I give talks on co-operatives, on home education - and on folklore.