Hello, we are The Family Music Hub!

Our Story

We train and support anyone who includes music in their work with under 5's and their families.

Our goal is simple: to support these leaders and help them to maximise the benefits of family music making in their communities.

The Family Music Hub was founded in 2021 by Rosie Adediran, Nicola Burke and Katie Neilson, who came together because of an overlapping interest and passion to better support the family support workforce in the UK.

At the Family Music Hub, we train and support anyone who uses music in their work with under 5's and their families.

We do this through offering in-person, online and blended training, and through ‘the hub’ - our online platform where everyone making music with under fives and their families can be supported, equipped, and connected with others doing this valuable work.

Meet the team

Katie Neilson

Katie is best known in the music education world for her work with Voices Foundation and her award-winning book Inside Music for Early Years. Additionally, she has also run her own classes, ‘Little Bees’ in Hertford, for nearly 20 years. As part of Katie’s MA research (2020), she worked collaboratively with parents to explore a new model of practice that put parents at the heart of a research-based ECM pedagogy.

Nicola Burke

Nicola's ground breaking MA research led to the development of the award-winning Tune into Listening and her subsequent publication Musical Development Matters in 2018 is widely hailed as an invaluable document by practitioners across the country. Action research that Nicola was involved in 2019 explored context-blindness, musical diversity and inclusion in early childhood settings.

Rosie Adediran

Rosie is a family music practitioner, singer and songwriter. She loves to create new music with family groups, with a special interest in perinatal mental health. She founded award-winning ‘London Rhymes’ in 2015, an initiative that involves collaborating with families to create new songs and rhymes. Rosie’s research (2020) was supported by the Paul Hamlyn ‘Ideas and Pioneers’ fund and explored the nature of free / low-cost ECM in England in order to examine the aims, experience and needs of the workforce.

Eleanor Rattenbury

Eleanor is an experienced freelance administrator and arts coordinator who has worked with a number of organisations/campaigns across the UK including: Every Copy Counts, Norwich & Norfolk Festival, BE Festival and Arts Connect.
Alongside her work as an arts professional, Eleanor is an experienced facilitator, specialising in dance, physical theatre, immersive and interactive performance. She is passionate about creating arts opportunities for children and young people and finds that it is often the common thread in the work she does.

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