Lewisham Music’s CEO, Charly Richardson will sadly be moving on after 5 amazing years.
A message from our Chair
I’m very sorry to announce that after an amazing 5 years at Lewisham Music our CEO Charly Richardson will be moving on in the new year. Charly will be much missed but he leaves a great legacy. He steered us through the pandemic, oversaw the development of a thriving programme at The Fellowship, and formed new partnerships while embedding Lewisham Music into the community. Under his leadership music education in schools and in the community has flourished and diversified. We are enormously grateful for his dynamism and commitment and wish him well as he moves on.
We will shortly be recruiting for a new CEO to take us into our next chapter.
Dame Joan Ruddock
Chair of Lewisham Music’s Board of Trustees
A message from Charly
Leading this wonderful charity has been a great honour, and I am deeply grateful for all I have learned along the way. It’s been inspiring, challenging, intense, rewarding, and so much more!
Since joining Lewisham Music in August 2019, I am incredibly proud of what we’ve accomplished together. Our programmes have diversified, our partnerships have expanded, and we’ve reached even more communities, bringing the joy and power of music to young people across Lewisham. I am confident that my successor, alongside our brilliant trustees and staff, will take Lewisham Music forward and build on all we have achieved together.
Lewisham is a special borough, and Lewisham Music is a unique charity. To all the staff, schools, partner organisations, families, and everyone else I’ve worked with over these five years, thank you for your ideas, support, challenge, and above all, your commitment to the young people of Lewisham. Finally, thank you to the young people of Lewisham themselves- you inspire me every day with your creativity, talent and energy.
I look forward to working with you all over the months before I leave and am excited to see where Lewisham Music goes from here.
With warm regards and thanks,
Charly Richardson
Chief Executive, Lewisham Music