The Board of Trustees has overall responsibility for the operation and governance of Sing for Pleasure.

Any trustee may be contacted through the National Office.

Anthony Corin (Chair)

Anthony has a deep interest in music and the arts and a sound awareness of the complexities of charity governance.  He is a former Head of Finance for a leading Private Bank, has been a Trustee of an educational charity with assets of some £2m, is now Company Secretary for that organisation and is Treasurer of two other arts/heritage-related educational charities.

Jane Ellison

Jane works for the John Lewis Partnership as a Senior Marketing Manager, and spent six months in 2004 seconded to SfP to assist with marketing and communications issues.  She founded the successful Mill Hill Music Festival in 1995 and has been a member of choirs since school.  She is also an elected member of her local authority and takes a particular interest in public arts policy.

Stephen Gregson

Steve studied piano and percussion at Trinity College London and conducting under Dr. Jack Stamp at Indiana University of Pennsylvania, where he gained an MA in 2000.  He has worked as a freelance percussionist, conductor and pianist, is an examiner for the ABRSM, directs the Broadstone Community Choir, and has conducted South Wessex Opera Company and directed the Milton Abbey Festival.  OUP recently produced his first publication, an arrangement for concert band.

Jane Hampson

Jane read music at Birmingham, completed a PGCE at Cambridge, and is now Head of Bolton Music Service.  She has been involved with SfP for over 20 years, in 1999 being elected Chair of SfP North and joining the National Committee.  In her other roles she directs the BMS Singers, is a Director of the Hallé Orchestra with special responsibility for education, and has recently been appointed North Regional Chair of the National Association of Music Educators (NAME).

Nick Willmer (Secretary/Treasurer)

Nick has been Treasurer of SfP since February 2006 and has long experience as a Trustee of other singing- and arts-based charities.  He studied at the Royal Academy of Music and has since worked in banking and IT.  His musical experience includes choir training, instrumental teaching, examining for chorister awards and the organisation of choirs festivals and singing courses.

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