The Fairbeats Team
Daisy Swift
CEO (Maternity Cover)
Catherine Carter
Co-founder &
Freelance Consultant
Fathiya Abdallah
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Coordinator
Abimaro Gunnell
Artistic Director
Kaia McTernan
Relationship and Partnerships Director
Lila Bhattacherjee
Administrator
Jennifer Raven
Co-founder & CEO (Maternity Leave)
Helen Hendry
Programmes and Operations Director
Suzy Herbert
Bookkeeper
Nadine Assam
L2L Music Leader
Damilola Rowe
Future Leaders AFRIL
Assistant Leader
Holly Khan
Rainbow Club AFRIL Music Leader
Jenetta Hurst
Rainbow Club AFRIL Fife Leader
Awate Suleiman
Future Leaders AFRIL Artist
Aidan Maier
Rainbow Club AFRIL Ukulele Leader
Liz Ikamba
Future Leaders AFRIL Artist
Kensaye Russel
Future Leaders L2L Artist
Mahesh Parkar
Future Leaders AFRIL
Assistant Leader
Trustees
Stephen Ryan
Chair of Trustees
Editor at BBC World Service
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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.
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.
Dorothy Hoskins
Trustee
Co-Director (Executive) at Compass Collective
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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.
Segun Lee-French
Trustee
Head of Cultural Enrichment at Islington Council
Segun is the Head of Cultural Enrichment at Islington Council. Prior to this, for 3 years, he ran the Exodus arts programme for refugees and asylum seekers at Community Arts North West in Manchester.
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.
Anne-Marie Philip-Howell
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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.