Attitude is Everything’s Accessible Funding Guide is a podcast series designed to demystify the funding process for artists and music professionals, without compromising their wellbeing as a Deaf, disabled or neurodivergent person.
The Accessible Funding Guide is hosted by Digital Content Coordinator Joy Addo. Each episode will feature key insights, advice and experiences from artists and music industry professionals.
We want to hear what you think about our Accessible Funding Guide! Fill out our anonymous survey to tell us your feedback.
Episode 1: Geo Aghinea talks about their experience in applying to funding as a Deaf artist
About Geo Aghinea
London-based experimental producer, composer, and vocalist, Geo Aghinea emerges with a sound that bridges their Romanian roots with microtonal textures. Through modular synth explorations, they design immersive experiences where electronic sonics meet haunting, siren-like vocals. On the side, Geo is a Programme Administrator and also the DMLab Project Manager in London – a free event for musicians, technologists and makers to exchange accessible instrument and practices.
Episode 2: Alex Etchart offers funding advice to disabled creatives
About Alex Etchart
British Uruguayan social artist using theatre, music, film & education to amplify queer, decolonial & environmental communities & campaigns across UK/internationally. Raised in the South American folk tradition, Alex composes folk, jazz, rock & classical across acoustic instruments & electronic music production to unearth invisibilised hxstories in collaborative writing workshops. As Creative Director of Sibling Arts CIC Alex has raised over £1.7M for frontline, marginalised queer, trans, women, migrant & disabled artists, from the arts, feminist, LGBTQ+ rights & public health spheres, including over £500k in core funding. They are currently leading the Arts Action Festival celebrating creative social change in the UK and available for consulting around funding strategy, community engagement and collaborative practice.
Episode 3: Laura Jones discusses the benefits of Access to Work
About Laura Jones
To the outside eye, Laura Jones’s DJ and production career had a dream start. One of her first productions burned brightly through the summer of 2011, propelling her forth onto the global touring circuit and she was hailed by Mixmag & I-D Magazine as one of the breakout house/techno stars of the early 2010s. Her records featured on some of the biggest labels at the time and with performances for Boiler Room, and Mixmag Lab helping to make her ever present at the world’s most influential dance music venues and festivals. Her signature orange glasses told another story however as she was diagnosed with Stargardt’s Macular Dystrophy, a rare and progressive form of blindness in 2008. Since, she has become an advocate for the rights of disabled artists, appearing on industry panels and telling her story to mainstream media outlets such as ITN, Marie Claire Magazine and BBC2.
Episode 4: Lamyaa Elgen on applying for funding as a neurodivergent artist
About Lamyaa Elgen
Lamyaa Elgen (she/her) is an award-winning songwriter, self-taught pianist, vocalist, and composer known under her stage name ELATRASI. Inspired by her Moroccan Muslim heritage and lived experience of neurodivergence, disability and chronic illness, her music fuses orchestral composition with resilient storytelling. She is also a fine artist and landscape painter based in the Oxfordshire countryside, set to feature in Landscape Artist of the Year 2026. Since her debut release Heavy in 2021 ELATRASI has been named “One to Watch” by BBC Introducing and supported by Youth Music, Help Musicians, The Ivors Academy, Wigmore Hall, and Abbey Road Studios. In 2023, she performed the Moroccan National Anthem for the Moroccan Embassy to commemorate the King’s formal accession to the throne. Lamyaa is proud to be Inclusive Communities Coordinator at Attitude is Everything, advocating for intersectional, trauma-informed approaches to accessibility, community-led advocacy, and authentic inclusion.