
The Fairbeats Team

Catherine Carter
Creative Director and Co-founder

Jennifer Raven
Operations Director and Co-founder

Awate Suleiman
Love to Learn Guest Artist

James Moriarty
AFRIL Music Leader

Kaia McTernan
Music Relationship Co-ordinator

Nadine Assam
RAK Music Leader

Suzy Herbert
Bookkeeper

Arjun Jethwa
AFRIL Fife Leader

Jerome Silsby
SDCAS Music Leader

Daniel Miles
Guest Artist and Trainee

Holly Khan
Love to Learn Music Leader

George Howlett
AFRIL Ukulele Leader
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Abimaro Gunnell
Associate Artist and Mentor

Julie Thompson
Associate Artist and Mentor

Basel Saleh
Associate Artist and Mentor

Louis Gilbert
General Manager

Trustees

Carolyn Ehman
Interim Chair of Trustees
Business Development Manager at The Albany
Carolyn is a arts management professional with a background in music and a focus on organisational resilience in practice. She is a firm advocate of community arts, having been involved in volunteer and trustee roles with a number of charities over the past decade. She joined the Fairbeats board in 2018.

Nigel Tyler
Treasurer
IT Manager
Nigel has an undergraduate degree in Economics, he is an IT Manager for a financial services firm where manages teams and projects in Europe, North America and India. In his spare time, he teaches Jiu Jitsu and has earned a blackbelt.

Esther Trewinnard
Trustee
Senior Media Officer at Tearfund
Esther works as a PR and Communications specialist in the humanitarian aid sector and has an interest in Community Music. Esther ran a local Thula Mama harmony singing group for new parents and carers in south-east London for many years and first came across Fairbeats when studying for an MA in Music and Development at SOAS. Born in the UK, Esther lived in Sardinia as a child, and later lived and worked in Tanzania and Peru.

Irene Ogunseitan
Trustee
Assistant Principal at an alternative provision academy
Irene joined the board in 2014. She is an assistant principal at an alternative provision academy which caters for young people who do not attend mainstream school due to circumstances such as school exclusion and school refusal. She has a master’s degree in Education Policy and is passionate about supporting young people to overcome barriers to learning and well-being. Born in Lewisham, she spent her early childhood in Nigeria and is a committed advocate for the numerous immigrant diasporas that contribute to the cultural dynamism of the UK.

Corinne Bass
Trustee
Senior Partnerships Manager at A New Direction
Corinne is Senior Partnerships Manager at A New Direction, a non-profit organisation aiming to enable all young Londoners to develop their creativity and play an active part in the cultural life of the city. She’s passionate about creative learning, lives in Lewisham, south London, and is an occasional but enthusiastic open water swimmer.