Tom Hegarty, Head of Communications

Tom joined Foxglove in 2021. He supports all of Foxglove’s public communications to bring their work to a wider audience. He works with broadcast, print and digital press to tell Foxglove’s story and to promote and celebrate the organisation’s work.

Tom is a communications professional who has worked in political press engagement, rebuttal, media monitoring and social media comms during two general elections and the 2016 European referendum. He has worked for the Labour Party national comms team and Full Fact, the UK’s independent factchecking organisation. He has lived in the north of Ireland and the south of France.

He holds an MA in Magazine Journalism from the University of Sheffield. He is an ex-features writer and sub-editor.

Tom’s pronouns are he/him.