Trustees - Marc Jaffrey

Over the last two years Marc has led the landmark Music Manifesto – a campaign for improvement in music education. Before taking up the post of Music Manifesto Champion, Marc was the Learning Executive for Music, a commissioning executive role that delivered learning projects through the music entertainment output of the BBC.

Prior to that Marc was Music Project Executive at the BBC, where he was responsible to the Director of BBC Radio and Music and BBC Learning for special projects. While at the BBC he developed and commissioned a portfolio of critically acclaimed multi-media music education services aimed at young people, children and families.

Projects include: the groundbreaking Radio 1 OneMusic, which provide a comprehensive service for young people wanting to make it in the music industry; Radio 2's Sold on Song, the first interactive service for aspiring songwriters and performers; BBC Radio and Music Interactive Children's Radio Player and Parents' Music Room; the Proms Out + About education campaign; and online learning resources to support the Radio 3 children's show Making Tracks.

Marc also assisted in the creation BBC Performing Arts Fund supporting new young talent, where he remains a trustee.

Between 1999 and 2001 he was project director of the landmark BBC/Youth Music Instrument Amnesty collecting £1.3 million of unused instruments and redistributing them to education projects. He also involved over 1,000 schools in the BBC's millennium Music live festival.

With an established record in racial equality and social justice campaign work, Marc, 43, joined the BBC in 1997 project managing action campaigns on TV, radio and online for BBC Education.