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Our team

Our Music Leaders

We work with a number of talented and experienced musicians, music leaders, facilitators and educators to run our projects. You can find a full list of people we work with in Professional's Corner.

Our Staff

Gail Dudson, Director
mobile: 07980 435210 | email: [email protected]

Becky Pugh, Deputy Director
mobile: 07977 223679 | email: [email protected]

Wes Foster, Communications
email: [email protected]

We are not in the office full time. The best way to contact us for a fast response is via email.

Our Board

Yorkshire Youth & Music is a registered charity whose work is governed by our Board of Trustees - 

Chair: Eleanor Gill
Kate Andrews
Vandan Parmar
Patsy Quinn

Full details of our charitable activities can be found on the Charity Commission website.

Yorkshire Youth & Music
The Media Centre
7 Northumberland Street
Huddersfield
HD1 1RL

tel: 01484 437434
email: [email protected]

We are not in the office full time. The best way to contact us for a fast response is via email.

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Published: 9th December, 2019

Updated: 3rd November, 2025

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