Lucy Kate Barnes

CEO & Co-Founder @ Lawyers Who Care CIC, Pupil Barrister at East Anglian Chambers

DE&I Champion of the Year 2025, Keynote Speaker, TEDx Speaker & Advocate

One of the most inspiring speakers I've ever heard.

18 March 2025

Lucy awarded WINNER as Diversity and Inclusion Champion of the Year in the 2025 Women and Diversity in Law Awards for her social mobility advocacy.

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May 2024: Lucy Co-Founds Lawyers Who Care

#100faces campaign

Lucy was recently selected as one of the #100faces for the UniversitiesUK's #100faces campaign, celebrating the voices of 100 university graduates who were the first in their family to go to university.

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BBC 4 Women's Hour (28th Dec 2023)

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BBC4 Women's Hour (28 Dec 2023)

"We always bring a little spark in some way, and that's just waiting to be found."

Listen here to me discussing barriers for care-experienced young people in higher education alongside presenter Krupa Padhy and Rebecca Munro (also CEP)

Lucy becomes the first to write for The Bar Council on care experience and belonging in the legal profession
13 July 2024

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20th & 21st June:

Co-chaired the annual NCCTC Children's Commissioners Conference alongside Kathy Evans, previous CEO at Children England. I also delivered my keynote address 'From Foster Care to Lawyers Who Care.'

TESTIMONIALS:

Martin Quinn, Organiser of the NCCTC Commissioners Conference (June 2024):

"Lucy co-chaired and delivered an amazing keynote address at the two-day Commissioners’ Conference. Lucy managed this brilliantly and came across as if she had been doing both for many years! Her keynote was one of the highlights of the two days and delegates have asked if she can come back next year. Lucy speaks with passion and intellect, tailors her involvement to the audience in front of her and I can’t recommend her highly enough."

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