2025-26 Future Leaders

Meet our Future Leaders from the 2025-26 cohort who we support via our Beyond The Music initiative.

A young white woman with long light-brown hair sits in a power wheelchair on a coastal walkway. She wears glasses, a light blue jumper and grey trousers, and smiles at the camera. Behind her is a tall stone tower and a rocky shoreline under a cloudy sky.
A young white woman with long blonde hair and purple streaks smiles at the camera. She is wearing a teal, purple and navy windbreaker jacket and is photographed indoors against a pale wall, with soft natural light coming from the side.
A white person with short purple hair and glasses stands against a bright pink backdrop. They wear a black jumpsuit and look at the camera with a relaxed, slightly tilted posture, holding their hands loosely together in front.

Claire Taggart (she/her)

Delane Hammill (she/her)

Gem Hurley (she/her/they)

Claire Taggart is the founder of Think Accessible, an accessibility consultancy driven by lived experience and specialising in inclusive event design, access auditing, and disability awareness training.

Claire’s lived experience as a wheelchair user and over eight years working within football accessibility, she has supported organisations across Northern Ireland and the UK to remove barriers for disabled audiences, customers, and staff. Claire has been involved with Leveling the Field at Mighty Hoopla and previously served as Disability Liaison Officer at Larne FC.

Claire is now focused on transforming accessibility in live music and events. She is committed to raising standards, enhancing disabled customers’ experiences, and implementing inclusive practices in both the Northern Ireland and mainland UK music industry.

Delane Hammill is an events coordinator and emerging accessibility practitioner based in the South West, passionate about reshaping how festivals, venues and student spaces support diverse audiences. She leads the Give it a Go programme at the University of Exeter Students’ Guild, delivering hundreds of events and developing inclusive practices for a team of student staff.

Delane also volunteers across major festivals with Hotbox Events and works in artist liaison for the Hijacked brand. With a talent for creative problem-solving and people-centred design, she aims to drive industry-wide change in accessibility, communication and inclusive event delivery.

Gem is a music publicist based in South East London, with experience leading creative, data-driven press campaigns for artists across multiple genres. She has secured features across major publications, prominent websites and regional titles alike, bringing a sharp eye for detail, strategy and compelling storytelling.

As an autistic person with ADHD, Gem is passionate about championing underrepresented and neurodivergent artists, having led campaigns showcasing authentic artist narratives and built meaningful press coverage. She aims to use her PR skills in communication, research and campaign design to elevate emerging voices and drive greater visibility across the music sector.

A female presenting Black person with long green locs, looking slightly downward while performing. They wear a magenta regal gown with gold trim, a patterned sash with tassels, and a grey floppy witchy headscarf. Lit by bright sunlight inside a grand building with wooden balconies and an ornate musical pipe organ in the background.
A Black woman smiles warmly at the camera. She wears a lavender headwrap, large glasses, gold earrings and a peach knitted top, with black headphones resting around her neck. The background is a bright indoor space with soft, blurred details.
A white woman with shoulder-length brown hair and teal eye makeup smiles at the camera. She wears a black collared shirt with a pearl necklace and has tattoos on her arm. Keys holds up a red card that says “YOU GOT THE KEY” in white text. The photo is taken indoors with warm lighting.

Jala-Jala (Kafayat Adegoke) (she/they)

Juley-Ann Smith (she/her)

Keys Barber (she/her)

Jala-Jala is a cheeky interdisciplinary performer, cultural programmer and trauma-informed educator working across music/dance, theatre, disability advocacy, and community arts. A folk-jazz musician, percussion dancer, Harmonica DJ, and Intimacy & Pleasure-positive theatremaker. She creates empathetic, sensory-led storytelling.

Her work includes co-founding the Yorkshire Producing Collective, instrumental to Bradford’s UK City of Culture 2025 win, and collaborating with the London Symphony Orchestra, Fela Kuti’s Egypt 80 Band, Clore Leadership, Centre for Applied Social Research (CeASR), the National Literacy Trust, and text-based benign propagandist Martin Firell.

She also supports access initiatives for Giles Peterson’s We Out Here Festival, and Migration Matters Festival.

Jala-Jala is developing a platform to amplify artists with unseen disabilities and reimagining how their care and accessibility operate within festival spaces.

Juley-Ann is a Camden-based creative leader, vocalist and community arts practitioner whose work blends music, storytelling and culturally rooted collective care. She is the founder of Amka Nzuri Melody Women, a peer-led music initiative supporting disabled Black women aged 50+ to access joyful, beginner-friendly instrumental learning and creative expression.

With a background spanning theatre, writing, community singing and music production, Juley-Ann draws on Caribbean and African diasporic influences to build inclusive spaces where creativity and access go hand in hand. She works across grassroots arts, disability inclusion and peer leadership, dedicated to developing culturally responsive, accessible musical communities in Camden and beyond.

Keys, known artistically as RightKeysOnly, is an EDM artist, producer and community organiser from Cardiff. Their work blends bold electronic production with storytelling rooted in Disability, queerness and growing up as a young carer in rural Wales.

Alongside their artistic practice, Keys founded Amplifying Accessibility, a fast-growing initiative supporting disabled music workers across Wales through mentoring, accessible open mics, queer raves, newsletters and newly launched virtual networking events.

A Youth Music Rising Star (Industry) Award winner for 2025, Keys also collaborates with organisations including Disability Arts Cymru and Arts Council Wales. They are dedicated to reshaping the Welsh music landscape through equity, creativity and community-driven access.

A white person with short light-brown hair and sunglasses stands in front of a reptile enclosure. They wear a black T-shirt, black shorts and have multiple tattoos on their arms. They point toward two turtles sitting under a heat lamp inside the rocky, plant-filled habitat.
A man with short curly dark hair and a neatly trimmed beard looks slightly downward with a calm expression. He wears a light grey T-shirt and is photographed against a plain off-white wall in soft natural light.
A white woman wearing sunglasses and a black sleeveless top stands on a raised platform at a festival. She has a radio earpiece, wristbands and a lanyard, and holds a water bottle. Behind her is a large recycled artistic tree structure in the Greenpeace area of Glastonbury Festival, and a colourful, crowded festival scene.

Kloé McLoughlin (they/them)

Ryan Lardner-Cameron (he/him)

Sarah Spurgeon (she/her)

Kloé is a promoter, event organiser and access worker in the grassroots music and festival sector. Their community-led practice is shaped by their lived experience as a working-class, autistic, physically disabled trans person. They founded and run T4Tunes, a non-profit gig series and small label platforming trans artists.

Over two years, they’ve showcased 42 artists across London and Vancouver, created paid opportunities for TNBI creatives, and raised funds to support gender-affirming care. Their long-term aim is to grow T4Tunes into a CIC offering training and support for TNBI musicians.

Kloé is also a Trustee at AMP, with a particular interest in SEN music education and mental health. They provide access support for organisations and artists, and recently worked in artist liaison and stage management at Mighty Hoopla 2025.

Ryan is a Birmingham-based music producer, accessibility advocate and workshop leader dedicated to improving representation and inclusion for blind and visually impaired musicians. A recent graduate of BIMM Institute with First Class Honours in Music Production and Music Business, Ryan creates original work across grime, hip-hop and Black music while developing accessible workflows using assistive technology.

He has delivered music production workshops for visually impaired young people, including at the Royal National College for the Blind, teaching Logic Pro with VoiceOver. Ryan also builds accessible digital resources, including his own screen-reader-friendly website.

He aims to develop inclusive music education, launch accessible production courses and support disabled artists across the sector.

Sarah is an operations and event manager with 15 years’ experience delivering festivals and live events across the UK and internationally. She has held senior roles at Balter Festival, Secret Garden Party and Noisily, overseeing operations, safety, crew welfare and accessibility.

Recently working in operations with Greenpeace at Glastonbury, SXSW London and EventWell delivering sensory spaces. She volunteers with Stand Up to Racism, organising local music events and  previously designed and led the DE&I programme for a women-focused mentoring initiative.

She is committed to embedding accessibility into event planning and strengthening support systems for neurodivergent, deaf and disabled people working in the sector.

A Black person with short natural hair sits on a stool in a recording studio. They wear a black hoodie, a black utility vest and blue jeans. Behind them are musical instruments including a guitar, drum kit, amplifier and a microphone on a stand. They look calmly toward the camera.
A portrait of Sha aka SO SHA, a Filipina artist, looking towards the camera with a soft, calm expression. She wears a cream Filipiniana-inspired embroidered sleeve and has shoulder-length auburn hair. The background is a smooth teal-grey, and the lighting is gentle and warm.

Sea Osuji (she/they)

Sha Supangan (she/her)

Sea is a production, programming and events professional whose work spans festivals, electronic music and community arts. They have contributed to major events including Glastonbury, where they worked on the production team for the Other Stage and BBC Introducing, and currently support programming, artist liaison and operations across Cheltenham’s Jazz, Science and Literature festivals.

Sea has held roles in sound engineering, stage management and multimedia production, including work with B:Music, Saffron Records and Born::Free LDN. They also run an underground electronic music collective platforming women and gender-nonconforming artists. With a care-centred, research-led approach, Sea is committed to building more inclusive creative spaces across music and live events.

Sha (she/her), aka SO SHA, is a Filipina neurodivergent multidisciplinary artist working across music, songwriting, storytelling and performance. Rooted in electronic music and DJing, she is expanding into creative facilitation and community-building, drawing on lived experience of migration and disability to shape more accessible ways of making and sharing art.

She is developing Pruu the Pidj, a surreal, music-led solo play told through a pigeon’s point of view, and creates low-barrier spaces where people who are often marginalised in the arts can explore sound and share their stories as part of a growing community archive.

Sha has worked with Drake Music, CRIPtic Arts, Collusion Cambridge, CCmixter, Unlimited, Help Musicians and ICMP.