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Our Youth Team

Meet the BFYC Team

Our Trustee team handles the day-to-day administration of the Choir, working alongside our professional staff – Music Director Juliette and Accompanist Nick.

We encourage as many people as possible to take part and enjoy all that BFYC has to offer as choir members, music professionals, volunteers, and our audiences. We place good governance and the principles of equality, diversity and inclusion at the heart of all our activities and programming. With passion and friendship, we seek to ensure that our young people have the richest and most inspiring experience whilst singing in the choir – developing their confidence, musicality and having fun together!

wendy forbes

Chair of Board of Trustees
(Interim Designated Safeguarding Officer)

Wendy Forbes

I lead the Trustee team helping to ensure that the choir is well-governed and organised, and that all of our passion for seeing young people develop their voices and their musicality is channelled into the most fulfilling and developmental experience for our young singers. I look after Data Protection and I’m a chaperone. I have been part of this wonderful team since 2002 and have sung in BFC since 1976.

email Wendy : chair@brightonfestivalyouthchoir.org.uk

Secretary

Julie Emerton

I am responsible for the day to day running of the choir. I liaise between choir members, parents, chaperones, our Music Director and team of trustees to ensure all runs smoothly. You can e-mail me for information on the choir or if you’d like to join.  I have been with BFYC since 2002 and also sing as an alto with BFC.

email Julie: bfyc@hotmail.co.uk

hilary orrom

Treasurer

Hilary Orrom

I work as Treasurer and am responsible for all things financial.  Although we charge a membership fee for BFYC, we want to ensure that no-one is discriminated against on the grounds of cost. I’m happy to chat – we will always give sympathetic consideration to anyone suffering financial hardship.
I am a long-time member of Brighton Festival Chorus, have been a Trustee of BFYC since 2012, and am a licensed chaperone, and first-aider.

Trustee & Chaperone

Andrew Manning Jones

I am the link trustee for the Charity Commission who regulate charities such as BFYC to ensure they are accountable, well run and meet their legal obligations. I have been a trustee of the Brighton Festival Youth Choir since the trust was formed in 2007 and a chaperone since 2018. I also sing with Brighton Festival Chorus as a tenor.

anne boyce

Trustee

Anne Boyce

I have been a trustee with BFYC for 10 years and am also an accredited chaperone and qualified first-aider. I love to see how our young people blossom and gain so much self-confidence when they sing with BFYC. I sing with Brighton Festival Chorus in the alto section.

fiona mcnae

Trustee

Fiona McNae

I have the great pleasure of being a Trustee of both Brighton Festival Chorus and Youth Choir.  I help support the many operational, developmental & creative possibilities of working together, for all our singers. I have sung with Brighton Festival Chorus as an Alto 1 since 2020.

TRUSTEE & CHAPERONE

SUE MANNING-JONES

I have been a licensed chaperone for BYFC since September 2023 and was appointed as Trustee a year later. I am also a qualified first-aider. It is a delight to be among young people watching them blossom into confident adults through singing and fellowship.

Our Licensed Chaperones

susannah harrison

Susannah Harrison

Sue Purbrick

linda nicholls

Linda Nicholls

Bettina Harris

Looking after our young singers

Our Designated Safeguarding Team – Wendy Forbes (interim DSO), Hilary Orrom, Julie Emerton, and Sue Manning-Jones ensures that all young singers are safe and supported. The team, along with BFYC trustees and licensed chaperones, are all trained in child protection and a number are also trained in First Aid. All staff and volunteers are checked by the Disclosure and Barring Service and follow our Safeguarding Policy and Procedures.