Support Beyond the Music

PRS Members’ Fund was formed in 1934 to support songwriters and composers during the Great Depression. After 90 years, we continue to provide hardship funding, advice and support covering health, wellbeing, housing and finance – our promise to be there for our members and their dependants facing very real issues.

Our Values

 

Relevant

We respond to the real issues faced by music creators today, and work to understand and design support for future challenges. We will review and adapt the Fund to meet changing needs, and in response to what members tell us.

Responsive

We take time to understand the world in which we operate and adapt our work to the changes we see. We act quickly, compassionately, and proportionately to support members in crisis.

Respectful

We see each member as a person first and foremost. Whatever their situation we ensure that every interaction is grounded in compassion, dignity, confidentiality, respect and fairness.

Supporting members in need since 1934

We all know the music business can be unpredictable and demanding, and even after periods of success it can be precarious with no guarantee of earnings. This means that when crisis hits such as illness, accident or emotional breakdown, there may be no safety net. We are here to provide support for PRS members, former members, and their immediate families in times of difficulty.

We can help with support and advice for those who need financial, physical or emotional help – whether you’re in crisis and in need of immediate support with financial help, housing, mental health or physical health issues or you’re finding yourself looking for career advice, counselling or coaching.

We’re here to help you get back on track, find your voice, and empower you to move forward with your career. We want to hear you… It’s your song, your music, your Fund.

A band plays in the background with a singer singing into a microphone while playing an acoustic guitar

Meet the Team

John Logan, an older man with short grey stubble wearing black glasses, a tweed jacket and blue shirt

John Logan

General Secretary
Christine Keeley, a middle aged woman with shoulder length light brown hair, wearing a cream suit jacket and black top.

Christine Keeley

Grants & Administration Manager
Ilaria Piscopo, a woman with short brown hair stopping just below her ears. She has a lower lip piercing and is smiling at the camera, she is wearing a white top and navy suit jacket.

Ilaria Piscopo

Senior Marketing & Communications Executive
Sebastian Willis, a young man, with a light brown wispy beard and long hair tied up in a bun on the back of his head. He is looking directly into the camera and wearing a black t shirt.

Sebastian Willis

Administration Assistant

Our Trustees

Philip Pope

PRS Members’ Fund Board Chairman

Composer, songwriter and artist

Pete Glenister

PRS Members’ Fund Deputy Chair

Songwriter, record producer and guitarist

Naomi Wallace Asher

Neighbouring rights, music publishing, and theatre industry leader

VV Brown

Singer-songwriter

Kim Frankiewicz

Executive VP, Worldwide A&R, Concord Music Publishing

Peter Knight Jr.

Music publishing expert and founder of Catalyst Music Publishing Ltd.

Deni Lew

Songwriter and A&R

Mike Lindup

Composer, keyboard player, vocalist and founder of platinum band Level 42

Darren Michaelson

Fund Manager of Music Rights

Paul Patterson

Composer and Manson Professor of Composition at the Royal Academy of Music

Ian Penman

Solicitor specialising in media & entertainment, and founding partners of New Media Law LLP

Simon Platz

Managing Director at Bucks Music Group

Mike Stobbie

Songwriter, composer and producer

John Truelove

Songwriter, record producer and music publisher

Pete Woodroffe

Songwriter and producer

Our Patrons

Don Black, an older man with thick black eyebrows, short black hair and thin rimmed glasses.

Don Black CBE

Wayne Hector, a black man with a short stubbly goatee and small neat moustache. looks into the camera smiling, his hand is on his chest

Wayne Hector

Jools Holland, a white man with short brown hair wearing a brown suit jacket

Jools Holland OBE DL
Sir Brian May, an older white man with shoulder length thick curly white hair

Sir Brian May CBE

Heather Small in black and white, wearing a T-Shirt with the text What have you done today? on it, she has her hair braided in a protective style with silver charms woven in

Heather Small MBE
Carroll Thompson, a black woman, smiling into the camera. She has black eyeliner and silver eyeshadow on and is smiling softly into the camera

Carroll Thompson

Rick Wakeman, an older white man with a grey beard and moustache and shoulder length thin blonde hair, he is wearing a dark green

Rick Wakeman CBE

Errollyn Wallen, a black woman with thick curly hair with streaks of blonde, red and brown, she smiles up at the camera from her seated position at a piano

Errollyn Wallen CBE
Martyn Ware, a white man with slicked back hair wearing a grey and black suit

Martyn Ware

Our Ambassadors

Kenny Barber

Jennie Bellestar Matthias

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