Ruth Jones

Currently National Music Hubs Associate for Trinity College London (Arts Award) and Development Manager for Wiltshire Music Connect (Music Education Hub)

I am a youth arts/music specialist with a background in arts and young people at risk and national, regional and local policy development. My background is in music and I started out working as a Creative Co-ordinator and music workshop tutor for local authority youth services then moved to Artswork, the national youth arts development agency, with founding chairman  Sir Ken Robinson. Later I became National Director of Artswork, and then Director of a Community Foundation before leaving to run my own youth arts consultancy & training company.

I am an experienced youth arts / educational projects and programmes manager specialising in music, and supporting professionals through training, advice and mentoring. I have been regularly commissioned to work for a range of partners and clients; these have included Arts Council England national and regional offices, Youth Music, NESTA, and the National Student Drama Festival. I developed and delivered a suite of music project planning and fundraising courses for Music Leader London which also ran in the south east, south west, and west midlands. I've been a guest lecturer for University of East London (Music Industry Management BA), worked as Stage Manager at Glastonbury Festival, and have run conferences and events.

I’ve been involved in the Arts Award qualification for young people since its launch and am an associate consultant for Trinity College London, specialising in music hubs.

I am also Development Manager at Wiltshire Music Connect - the music education hub for Wiltshire, leading on SEND and Singing.

I’ve written a little book called Get Sorted - guide to youth arts project planning and fundraising and play bass guitar and sing with a band, gigging mainly in the south west.

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