I’m Founder of Attitude is Everything and I co-lead the organisation with our Managing Director Celia Makin-Bell. Together we provide strategic direction and leadership in accordance with the organisation’s Vision and Mission.
My role is to be responsible for advocacy, representation, relationship building, profile-raising, and strategic fundraising, alongside maintaining Attitude is Everything’s position and influence within the cultural sector, and beyond.
I describe myself as a ‘professional gig-goer’ – watching bands from aged 13. I’m also a disabled person and from 2020, I’ve lived with a cancer diagnosis, so I have both a personal and professional interest in improving access to music and live events.
Over my career, I’ve received some accolades – an MBE in the Queen’s Birthday Honours list for services to music, arts and disabled people, an ‘Access All Areas Editor’s Award’ at the Event Production Awards, and Music Week’s Women in Music ‘Campaigner of the Year’ Award. I was recently conferred an Honorary Fellowship from Falmouth University. I was also listed in She Said So’s ‘Alternative Power 100 List’, enrolled in Music Week’s Women In Music Awards ‘Roll Of Honour’ and ‘Power 100’ – 100 most influential disabled people in the UK in 2015, 2016, 2017, 2019 and 2020.
Roundtable: Benefits of the Visual and Performing Arts
A panel of creatives will discuss issues around the benefits of the visual and performing arts.
Other panelists include Hannah Whittaker, Beth James, Megan Saunders and Esteban Lecoq.