Our Trustees
Dr. Robin Precey
Chairman
I joined “Mindful Music” in 2016 as the charity was being formed. I spent 32 years working in schools in Bradford, Leeds, Norfolk, Norwich and East Sussex. As teacher and later a headteacher, I tried to focus on a holistic approach to education valuing relationships as well as results. I now work part-time at Canterbury Christ Church as a lecturer in educational leadership teaching and conducting research and also part-time as an independent consultant. Both roles involve a good deal of international as well as UK-based work. I am also on the Board of “Human Scale Education”. All of these experiences have convinced me of the value of the “Mindful Music’s” approach to education.
Anna Edwards
Trustee
Anna grew up in Wiltshire and was inspired by her school teachers. This is one of the factors leading her to enjoy her education and to now be working at The Goldstar Federation as Assistant Head Teacher with responsibility for Arts since September 2016. Anna attended Durham University, studying Combined Arts: History of Art, Theology and Politics. In her spare time, she enjoys travelling (Kenya and Italy are amongst her favourite destinations); she sits on the board of the charity Human Scale Education; she enjoys running, yoga and cooking and eating healthily; she enjoys Arts and theatre productions as often as possible; she loves to read and spend time with her partner, family and friends.
Darren Rubin
Trustee
Head of St. Paul’s Whitechapel CE Primary School, Darren has worked in education for his whole career basing himself in primary schools in Islington and Tower Hamlets. He has worked at St. Paul’s Whitechapel for 15 years now working in the leadership team that transformed the school from serious weaknesses to its current outstanding status. Hobbies include travelling cooking and playing the guitar.
Ramzi Qattan
Treasurer
Ramzi is a chartered accountant (ACA), with 5 years post qualification experience. Having spent 7 years within Deloitte's licensed retail and hospitality team in a hybrid audit and advisory role, he moved to Christie & Co in early 2016 to focus on providing strategic advisory services to clients in the hospitality sector. He has experience managing advisory engagements across a diverse range of licensed retail, hospitality and gaming businesses, for listed (including FTSE250), Private Equity-backed and private clients. Ramzi has kindly joined our board of trustees as treasurer.
Our Team continued
Dom Baker
Advisor
Dominic Baker is a 2010 ambassador and the founding CEO of Future Frontiers. Dominic set up the charity with two other ambassadors after their experiences teaching in South London. There was a shared belief that all young people can be motivated by their aspirations if they can find career ideas that are highly personalised and understand the connections to academic success. The programme has demonstrated the ability to increase engagement at school, helping guide pupils to make positive choices about their future.
Our Team
Martha Wright
Founder and Director
Martha founded Mindful Music while working as a primary school teacher in Medway. She had become aware of the emotional needs pupils were struggling with and the patterns of behaviour negatively affecting their wellbeing, and so started to research and pilot ways to support children in their development of self-control. This began the ongoing process of contextual observations with personal mindful practice. She has a masters in Transformational Leadership through Teach First and Canterbury Christ Church, and a degree in Music from Durham University.
Marie-Eugénie Bolo
Music Therapist
Marie graduated in 2013 at the International Center of Music Therapy in Noisy-le-Grand. She has worked with children in a nursery school in Dublin, worked with children with autism spectrum disorders, behavioural disorders, aggression, hyperactivity, language disorders and other learning and behaviour difficulties.
She offers individual and group sessions aimed at helping the children to come into bloom. Marie supports in the planning, delivery and evaluation for Mindful Music programmes in schools and in the community.
Videographer and Secretary to the Trustees
Ailbhe has been making videos for Mindful Music since September 2016 - such as this one. She's a Film & Theatre graduate from the University of Reading and works mostly with charities and children's organisations. She loves music, working with kids and helping people who need it so she's a big fan of Mindful Music!
John Webb
Mindful Music Composor and Facilitator
A freelance composer, animateur, educator, conductor and writer. John’s work aims to encourage creative participation in music making: to enjoy it as an enlivening group activity for all-comers, and one in which participants can discover their own creative musical identity. www.johnwebbcomposer.co.uk
Flora Benson
Flora is a classroom music teacher and mindfulness practitioner from Sydney, Australia. She has taught music in a range of primary and secondary schools in Australia and the UK. Flora received a BMus(MusEd) Honours I from the Sydney Conservatorium of Music in 2012 and has trained extensively in the Orff approach to music pedagogy. More recently, she has trained to deliver the Paws B primary mindfulness curriculum with the Mindfulness in Schools Project in London. Flora is a programme lead on the Mindful Music schools team.
Mark Potter
External Relations Advisor
James Gardiner
Advisor
Rhiannon Eglin
Special Educational Needs and Music Education Consultant
Chris Skilton
Advisor
Innovation, finance and social enterprise consultant.
Greg Sanderson
Advisor
Greg Sanderson is Co-Founder of Smart School Councils, a charity that aims to help young people to become active and democratic citizens. They do this by implementing their Smart School Council model into schools. He also runs a educational consultancy called involver.org.
Our Founding Supporters
