Fairbeats Team
Jennifer Raven
Co-Founder &
Chief Executive Officer
Kaia McTernan
Relationship and Partnerships Director
Music Leader
Kensaye Russel
Future Leaders (Future Foundations)
Catherine Carter
Co-Founder & Consultant
Abimaro Gunnell
Artistic Director
Helen Hendry
Programmes and Operations Director
Ian Wallace
Assistant Music Leader
Future Leaders (Future Foundations)
Fathiya Abdallah
Coordinator
Rihab Azar
Music Leader
Junior Homework Club (Future Foundations)
& Rainbow Club (AFRIL)
Ije Amaechi
Awate Suleiman
Music Leader
Mahesh Parkar
Assistant Music Leader
Music Leader
Future Leaders (AFRIL)
Future Leaders (AFRIL)
Future Leaders (AFRIL)
Fairbeats Trustees
Stephen Ryan
Chair of Trustees
Editor at BBC World Service
As a BBC journalist, Stephen has travelled around the world sharing the stories of young musicians in Mozambique, trans workers in India, and a Turkish family trying to balance their budget during a currency crisis. He has extensive experience working on music-making with young people in Ireland and the U.K. Stephen moved to London from Limerick in 2010.
Nigel Tyler
Treasurer
IT Manager
Nigel has an undergraduate degree in Economics, and he is an IT Manager for a financial services firm where he manages teams and projects in Europe, North America and India. In his spare time, he teaches Jiu Jitsu and has earned a blackbelt.
Dorothy Hoskins
Trustee
Co-Director (Executive) at Compass Collective
Dorothy is the Executive Director of Compass Collective, a small charity supporting the integration of young refugees and asylum seekers through the arts. Compass work with young people aged 14-30 providing welfare support, English classes, creative projects in theatre, music and film, and arts-led professional development programmes. Dorothy has held roles in a number of leading arts and music charities, most recently as a Senior Project Manager at Create and previously as Project & Relationships Manager at the London Music Fund. Dorothy balances her role at Compass with a freelance career in choral singing and as a founding Co-Director of Anthem Music CIC, delivering creative composition and music-making projects in south London and beyond.
Anne-Marie Philip-Howell
Trustee
Director
Anne-Marie is a former diplomat and senior strategic communications executive. She has over 15 years experience in international affairs, political comms and climate change negotiations. She has led political operations across nearly 20 major global summits and acted in chief of staff roles. Most recently she has worked as a director at C40 Cities, the leading global convenor of city-level governments focused on shared urban and climate issues.
Anne-Marie now has a number of private and not-for-profit clients, where she helps provide senior leadership and strategic comms support.
Away from the office, Anne-Marie has a background that includes youth work and is active in her community. She is passionate about diversity, inclusion and equity issues and particularly about opening doors to music, culture and heritage. She is also an experienced school governor, with over ten years overseeing London schools.
Alison Dancer
Trustee
Assistant Event Producer, BBC Proms and Radio 3 Live Events Team
Alison works in event production in the BBC Proms and Radio 3 Live Events team, and has previously worked on music education projects for the BBC. She currently mentors with Arts Emergency and BBC Open Music, and in her spare time she enjoys playing cello in Fulham Symphony Orchestra.