Sister Organisations

The following are fantastic ‘positive action’ campaigns, feminist initiatives, collectives, and training programs we support aimed at promoting women and gender diverse musicians in the UK and beyond (each image links). Together these communities form the ‘ecosystem of change’ for the UK music industry.

Music Career Support:

  • Campaigns and Career Support
  • Local Areas of the UK

Backstage and Technology Career Support:

  • Backstage Career Support
  • Female Led Music Studios and Studio Programs
  • Production Communities and Training

Broadcast and Live Initiatives:

  • Podcasts and Online Magazines
  • Festivals and Live Music Events

Music Genres:

  • Classical Music
  • Electronic Dance Music
  • Folk, Jazz and Musical Theatre
  • Grime, Pop and Rock

As we are an intersectional organisation we have added in a few friends working in other areas of diversity and inclusion in music too!

  • Ethnic diversity
  • LGBTQI+
  • Parenting
  • Safety and prevention of bullying/harassment
  • Mental health and well-being
  • Disability and neurodiversity
  • Young people

If you know of any more you think we should feature, please do let us know, send us a link and a logo 🙂

Together we are changing the music industry!

Music Career Support

Campaigns and Career Support

Hypertribe: artist career mentoring
Ladies Music Pub: career support for women in music publishing & labels
Move The Needle: advice on music industry careers
SheSaidSo: international women execs in music
Cats Mother: mentoring for 18-25s in music
Cats Mother: mentoring for 18-25s in music
Why Not Her: Women on Radio campaign & research
Women Connect: music community
WomxnInCTRL: gender equality campaign
Women in Music (international)

Local Areas of the UK

Beacons Cymru: music development org for Wales
Bernow: women in music in Cornwall
Brighter Sound: music charity for Manchester
Girls Rock London: for girls in music in London
Safe in Sound: women in music in N Ireland

Backstage and Technology Career Support

Backstage Career Support

Crew Gal: female crew training and recruitment agency
NOWIE: women in events
The Back Lounge: weekly support sessions for those in live music
WILM: women in events across the EU

Female Led Music Studios and Studio Programs

Abbey Rd Equalise: IWD events at Abbey Rd
Bluebell Studios: female owned studio in Essex
Cactus City: safety charter for professional studios
EchoTown Studio: in Dorset co-owned by a disabled woman
LJ Studios: women run post-production in Surrey
Noisy Girls: women run studio in Leicestershire
Platoon Studio: all female engineering team
Rebalance: training women in professional studios
Siren Studios: female led recording studio

Production Communities and Training

2% Rising: community for women in music production
In The Key Of: music production research in gender inequality
Peak Music: production training for under-represented groups
Saffron: music tech training for women
Sheproducer: home recording training for women
Female DIY Musician: DIY training for women
WITCiH: women in music technology
WIMP: women in music production
WPM: women producing music
YSWN: Yorkshire Sound Women Network

Broadcasts and Events

Podcasts & Online Magazines

Anna's Baroque BonBons: podcast
Crew Gal: podcast
Discover Her Music: podcast
Get In Her Ears: podcast
Loud Women: radio
Red Rebel Radio; women and non-binary DJs and producers
SheBeat: women in Scottish music radio show
TNAM: online magazine for female and non-binary artists
TNAM: online magazine for female and non-binary artists
TIT: online magazine reviewing women artists and bands
Women in HipHop: podcast

Festivals and Live Music Events (all genres)

Amplify Her events
Boudicca festival
Crocroland festival
eavesdropping festival
Femme Culture events
HearHer Festival
Hidden Notes festival
Loud Women events and festival
Matchstick Festival
Otley Live festival
Out and Wild Festival
Primadonna festival
Risen festival
Tracks festival
WIMIN festival

Music Genres

Classical music

Ambache
Bassists With Boobs
ComposeHer
The Dionysus Ensemble
Donne Women in Music
Empower
Gender and Large and Shiny Instruments
Her Ensemble
Illuminate Women's Music
Maestra
Multitude of Voices
Semibreve
Women In Music

Electronic Dance Music

BBG
Beatport Diversity Fund
Delia Derbyshire Day
EQ50
Femmes on Decks
Female Pressure
The Jaguar Foundation
Not Bad For A Girl
Lady of the House
Objects Ltd
Psysisters
Selextorhood
Siren Sounds: DJ collective based in Leeds
Siren Sounds: DJ collective based in Leeds
Vinyl Bitch
Women in Dance Music

Folk, jazz and musical theatre

Alliance for Women Film Composers
Esperance
The Bit Collective
Girl Plays Jazz Project
Time to Modulate
Women in Jazz
Women in Jazz
Women in Jazz Media
Women in Musical Theatre

Grime, pop and rock

Chorus Songwriting
DL Grl
Girls of Grime
Girl Grind UK
Girls Rock School: in Edinburgh
Hen Hoose
Heard Collective
Noisy Daughters
No Such Thing
Pop Girls
POWA
She's The Moment
She is the Music
She Writes
Under the Radar
Unglamorous Music
Where Are The Girlbands?

Other Intersectional Campaigns

Ethnic Diversity

Black Artist Database
Black Music Coalition
Black Lives in Music
Chineke! Foundation
Gal Dem
Girls I Rate
Pegasus Opera Company
Plainsightsound
Richard Antwi Scholarship
SoulEndvr
UD Music

LGBTQI+

Come Play With Me
Boudica
HeSheThey
Lavender Cafe
LGBTQ+ Music Study Group
LGBTQ+ Chart
Out and Wild Festival
Pride in Music
Pxssy Palace
Queer Artists Connect
Queer Ear Records
Queer Folk
Raze Collective
Trans Creative Collective
Transform
Trans Radio UK
TransVoices

Parenting

MAMA Coaching
Mamas in Music
Mother's Write
PIPA
SWAPRA

Safety and Prevention of Bullying/Harassment​

Good Night Out
Independent Society of Musicians
Safe Gigs for Women
WeAreMusic

Mental Health and Well-being

Be Extra
Music Minds Matter
Performance Guru
Tonic Rider

Disability and Neurodiversity

Attitude is Everything
Autism Able
Club Soda
Creative Differences
Disability Arts Online
Diverse UK
Drake Music
Heart N Soul
Music and the Deaf
Neurodiverse Creatives Network
Nordoff Robbins
OHMI
OMNI
Open Up Music
RAMPD

Young people

AMP
Creative Access
Community Music
More Music
Music of Life
Music Masters
Sound Connections
The Music Works
Young Sounds UK
Youth Music