Impact Report 2024/25
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Sounding Out
BBC Radio 3 celebrates 30 years of the Irene Taylor Trust
Our thanks to BBC Radio 3 for running a segment about our 30th anniversary on their ‘Saturday Morning’ show on 22nd November (catch up via BBC Sounds here) and a [...]
Book now! Special events celebrating 30 years at the Southbank Centre and Rich Mix
30th Anniversary Show at Rich Mix, November 2025 This special show at Rich Mix will celebrate 30 years of the Irene Taylor Trust through exhilarating live music performances. [...]
ITT at the Deal Music & Arts Festival 2024!
We’re excited to announce we will be taking part in Deal Music and Arts Festival 2024! On Friday 12th July we’ll showcase original music performed by young artists [...]
InsideOut the Band: a Sounding Out success story
Originally formed in prison in 2016, InsideOut the Band are still going strong and it’s now a family affair! We caught up with founding member Jay to find out more… How [...]
Sara interviewed by BBC Music Matters for International Women’s Day 2023
Our Artistic Director Sara Lee will be featured on a special programme for BBC Radio 3’s Music Matters celebrating International Women’s Day, to be broadcast on [...]
Emerging Artists Showcase on 20.04.23
Join us for an invigorating evening of inspirational music, soundscapes and spoken word pieces from some truly extraordinary artists of the future. Shining a light on [...]
Introducing our Emerging Artists
We are delighted that Arts Council England is supporting our pilot Emerging Artists programme in partnership with Drake Music. Over a two-year period, four brilliant Emerging [...]
2022 in review
After a slightly strange couple of years finding ways to adapt our work, 2022 broadly saw a return to in-person delivery, though valuable learning from the pandemic years has [...]
10 years of Sounding Out & Making Tracks
The Irene Taylor Trust has been inspiring people through Music in Prisons projects since 1995; in 2012 we extended this work ‘through-the-gate’ into the community with [...]