# New Director at Arts & Business Yorkshire

- Link: https://fundraising.co.uk/2007/06/30/new-director-arts-amp-business-yorkshire/
- Published: 2007-06-30T23:00:00+01:00
- Author: Howard Lake

Richard Brown has been appointed as the new Director of Arts & Business Yorkshire,
an independent affiliate of the national agency for creative partnerships between
the arts and the private sector.
For the last 12 years, Richard has been a Director
of successful Scottish creative business Soma Records, and its sister company SPG
Publishing.

 

 

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Richard also created ‘Soma Skool’, an educational outreach programme to encourage
and educate young people about career opportunities in the creative and cultural
industries. He also founded a music video scheme in partnership with Channel 4 and
Scottish Screen to engage and support young film-makers.

 

 

Richard sits on a National Advisory Panel for the Creative and Cultural Sector Skills
Council and was on the board of the Association of Independent Music.

 

 

Of his new move to Arts & Business Yorkshire, Richard said: “Yorkshire has a wealth
of creative talent and enterprise as well as a dynamic commercial and industrial
base. Our job is to be a catalyst between these two sectors and to help forge links
which will strengthen communities both as recreational and economic centres.”

 

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