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

Abimaro Gunnell

Associate Artist and Mentor

Julie Thompson

Associate Artist and Mentor

Basel Saleh

Associate Artist and Mentor

Carolyn Ehman

Interim Chair of Trustees

Business Development Manager at The Albany

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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.