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Jason Tanner, UK News, Consumer & Royal Commentator & Historian; Founding Director of both the defend uk campaign for fair free speech and Tanners Tours London
Jason Tanner is a UK News, Consumer and Royal Commentator and Founder-Director of the defend uk campaign for fair free speech. He also acts as an ambassador for London having welcomed more than 10,000 visitors to the city with his acclaimed tours and presentations.
Jason Tanner is a UK News, Consumer and Royal Commentator and Founder-Director of the defend uk campaign for fair free speech. He also acts as an ambassador for London having welcomed more than 10,000 visitors to the city with his acclaimed tours and presentations.
Based in London, he draws on his experience in broadcast journalism and as a communications specialist to offer unique political & everyday commentary. He's overseen national and international media communications with three major charities, starting with ICRF (Cancer Research UK), and led talented teams at the National Trust and CSV (Volunteering Matters).
His acclaimed and accessible presentations & guided walking tours reveal London's major impact on millions of peoples' lives across the world, even today. In 2025 he strengthened this long-established interest in encouraging interactive public engagement in history, monarchy, democracy, politics, free speech and the modern world by creating Tanners Tours London.
Based in London, he draws on his experience in broadcast journalism and as a communications specialist to offer unique political & everyday commentary. He's overseen national and international media communications with three major charities, starting with ICRF (Cancer Research UK), and led talented teams at the National Trust and CSV (Volunteering Matters).
His acclaimed and accessible presentations & guided walking tours reveal London's major impact on millions of peoples' lives across the world, even today. In 2025 he strengthened this long-established interest in encouraging interactive public engagement in history, monarchy, democracy, politics, free speech and the modern world by creating Tanners Tours London.
He has a career that includes promoting child protection, crime reduction & national heritage; creating unique insights into freedoms, rights & privileges and the cutting edge impact of UK volunteers.
Jason Tanner, Founder-Director of Defend Campaign UK for Free Speech , pictured in the Lea Valley near his home in London (Photo credit: Tom Forsyth)
As a communications professional, Jason Tanner acquired very broad knowledge in politics, democracy, monarchy, free speech, heritage, conservation, tourism, entertainment, volunteering, consumer rights and cancer research. At ICRF (now Cancer Research UK, he felt privileged to work with research scientists overseen by Nobel Prize-winner Sir Paul Nurse and to work directly with Professor Tim Key. During this early temporary placement, Jason media-launched epidemiological research that attracted international media attention; revealing at that time that 5 pieces of fruit or vegetables per day could reduce risks of serious conditions including bowel cancer. The research continues.
Jason was the last to hold a position once known as the Chief Press Officer for the National Trust before a major reorganisation saw this major institution move its London HQ to Swindon and an update in job titles and needs. Amongst many projects and media stories he handled, Jason revealed to the world's media the Trust's acquisition of a rare survival of 'slum housing' in Birmingham by the Trust and was part of the team that worked with Sir Anthony Hopkins on a race to save Snowdon for the nation some 20 plus years ago.
Jason Tanner, an ambassador for London and Director of Tanners Tours London. Pictured as a tour guide in Trafalgar Square.
When the Trust relocated, Jason decided to stay in the capital and headed up media relations for Dame Elisabeth Hoodless at CSV (now Volunteering Matters) and worked closely with key national journalists on a project that placed pioneering volunteers with the families of 'children at risk'. He also headed a talented team that put volunteers firmly on the map as CSV took the lead on the Year of the Volunteer, 2005 contributing to the climactic national efforts of the Olympic Volunteers of 2012. He also dealt with the enormous international media attention generated when Cameron's coalition government launched its ill-fated Big Society.
But he started the first 5 years of his professional career in communications working as a radio journalist for both BBC Southern Counties and as the Senior Broadcast Journalist at Mercury FM & Mercury Extra, now subsumed by Global. He covered the tragic loss of two families in a terrible fire in Aldershot for IRN's national radio network, was a regular bulletin presenter and was one of many radio newsreaders throughout the UK who announced to listeners the appaling massacre by a single gunman at Port Arthur in Australia in 1996.
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