The Great Escape – 25th Anniversary Badged Event
EVENT: The Great Escape – Targeted Action Works – 25 years of PRS Foundation panel
DATE: 16/05/2025
VENUE: Leonardo Royal Waterfront Hotel in Brighton
TIME: 2:15pm
GENRE: Indie/pop/rock/electronic
2025 marks 25 years of PRS Foundation – the UK’s leading charitable funder of new music and talent development, investing in the future of music. This panel at The Great Escape will look at the importance of equity, inclusion and action within the grant-making and talent development space – bringing together grantees and participants from PRS Foundation’s various groundbreaking programmes to discuss the ways in which #TargetedActionWorks in order to ensure that exciting, equity-deserving creators and professionals can tackle barriers to progression while inspiring and collaborating with the industry to the music industry of the future in which everyone benefits.
With guests:
- Jed Wright (Early Career Promoter Fund grantee)
- Geo Aghinea (Experimental producer, composer, and vocalist, and Oram Awards grantee)
- Ashaine White (Music Creator and POWER UP Participant)
- Moderated by Becci Scotcher (Senior Grants & Programmes Manager, PRS Foundation)
Featuring introduction by Joe Frankland (CEO, PRS Foundation)
