Afua Nkansah-Asamoah was on Childnet's International Youth Advisory Board for Project deSHAME tackling peer-on-peer online sexual harassment. She advocates for the importance of cross-generational conversations about topics that affect the youth. She is also passionate about developing youth policies that provide young people with opportunities to shape their lived experience. Afua is an amateur guitarist and sings in her church choir.

Alison is an enthusiastic YMM fan, loving the journey students take from first performance to confident musicians and singers. She believes in the power of making music to inspire and help young people through good times and bad, and wants to ensure we reach as diverse a range of students as possible.

Alison is a writer and runs wordspacelondon, a creative writing programme.

Anne plays clarinet and has been coming to the YMM adult instrumental group for about 5 years. She is a great admirer of YMM and its exceptional achievements.

Anne recently retired from a career in biomedical publishing and hopes to be able to offer her free time to help YMM in any way she can.

I have been helping brands, such as BA, King, Dell, Barclays and many smaller start ups, find their creative superpower for over 20 years - embracing data to help them see markets and customers in new ways; building collaborative multi-disciplinary teams across the world and getting them fired up to do the best work of their lives; working with new technologies to push digital branding and encouraging brands to embrace creative leadership in the boardroom.

I am a passionate believer in the transformative power of music and leapt at the chance to become a trustee of Young Music Makers. I have seen the incredible impact it has had on my two daughters and I’m really excited to be part of its next chapter of growth.

Severine's children have been attending YMM since 2011 and have now blossomed into real musicians, thanks to its nurturing and inspiring environment. Severine has been singing in the Adult Jazz Choir for several years and hugely enjoys it. During the week, she works in digital and e-commerce.

Roger has a son who’s been enjoying ukulele at YMM since 2017. In his day job, he’s a CTO, consultant and technologist. He’s also trying to learn piano as an adult.

Virginia is one of YMM’s adult students having been a member of the adult recorder ensemble for more than 15 years and has seen the school grow and flourish. She knows first hand the stimulation of learning and the joy of playing music on a Saturday morning and is keen to enable more students from diverse backgrounds to join the YMM family. In her main career she was a solicitor.

All four of Julian's children and his wife Amy either sing, strum, plonk, bash or honk in various groups and lessons at YMM and he enjoys playing tenor saxophone in the jazz ensemble. Seeing the love in the room when people are practising and performing their music in front of their friends, family and neighbours, he is an ardent fan of YMM's special chemistry and the value of picking up a music habit at any time in life.

In the week Julian is an organisational psychologist whose work focusses on spurring decision-makers in large organisations to think and act in radically more sustainable, equitable and purposeful ways.

Biog coming soon....

Michelle is a keen supporter of YMM and everything it stands for. A musician herself, having played the violin since a young age, she still plays on occasion with amateur orchestras in London.

Michelle is a chartered Engineer and has work in multiple industries both private and public sectors from the automotive industry through to online fashion retail, focusing primarily on operational excellence, transformation and programme management.