Our Team
Core team members
Jay Pocknell – Project Manager
Music Support Officer, RNIB; Freelance Mixing Engineer; Producer
Sam Kenyon – Community Lead
Electronic music producer, promoter, label owner
Tilly Gerra – Community Lead
Musician and journalism student
Steering group
Peter Bosher – Community Engagement Lead
BBC Sound Engineer; Assistive Technology Trainer; Founder of VIBE email group for VI musicians
Dr. Sarah Morley Wilkins
Project Manager and User Experience Consultant, DAISY Music Braille Project
Dave Williams
Customer Experience Manager, Dot Inc.; Chair, Braillists Foundation
Matthew Horspool
Braille and Assistive Technology Expert, UK Association for Accessible Formats (UKAAF); International Council on English Braille (ICEB)
James Risdon
Freelance musician; Access Coordinator, ABRSM
Sophie Amstell
CEO, The Amber Trust
Kevin Satizabal
Freelance musician; Producer, BBC
Paul Hopkins
Freelance podcast procusrt; Manager, AllFormats (Queen Alexandra College)
Dr. Tony Stockman
Centre for Digital Music, Queen Mary University of London; iGGi; ICAD
Zenny Jabeera – 2024-25 Music Industry Engagement Intern
Sarah Bayley – 2024-25 Music Industry Engagement Intern
Friends of the project
We are grateful to the time volunteered throughout Sound Without Sight’s development by the amazing contributors below, who remain close friends of the project:
Richard Orme
Chief Executive Officer, DAISY Consortium
Steve Tyler
Director of Assistive Technology, Leonard Cheshire
Adam Ockelford
Professor of Music, University of Roehampton; Founder, Amber Trust
Dr. David Baker
UCL Institute of Education
Victoria Ward
New College Worcester
Daniel Spreadbury
Steinberg
Graham Wilde
Royal National College for the Blind
Sally Zimmermann
Ex-RNIB Music Officer
Matt Wadsworth
Professional Lutenist
Organisational supporters
Technology Association of Visually Impaired People (TAVIP)
We owe big thanks to TAVIP, which hosts Sound Without Sight within its organisational structure.
Royal National Institute of Blind People (RNIB)
Thank you to RNIB for awarding initial funding from the Elizabeth Eagle-Bott Memorial Fund for Sound Without Sight to develop a community knowledge hub that will become the “one front door” for information related to music and visual accessibility, which collates existing resources and allows the community to fill in gaps. This funding has enabled us to launch the first version of our platform.
We are also grateful for our ongoing in-kind partnership with RNIB, which enables staff to support by contributing relevant solutions our Knowledge Hub. Likewise, solutions contributed by our community members will be available to RNIB’s teams, allowing the organisation to keep up to date and best support the blind and partially sighted community.
Fight for Sight
Sincere thanks to Fight for Sight for supporting our Community Lead programme, which has enabled two young people with vision impairment to help lead Sound Without Sight since July 2025.
Youth Music
We owe big thanks to Youth Music for enabling us to increase the impact we have for young musicians with vision impairment. Youth Music first supported us in 2024-25, by funding our Music Industry Engagement Internship programme through the Incubator Fund.
Youth Music continue their support in 2026 through the Trailblazer Fund, which is supporting us to develop and deliver ‘Sonic Horizons’ – a new mentorship programme for aspiring musicians with vision impairment.
Creative United
We are very appreciative of Creative United‘s support in helping Sound Without Sight to grow within the arts sector, by including our Project Manager to join the Inclusive Music Consortium.
Audio Accessibility Alliance
We are proud to work closely with the Audio Accessibility Alliance, whose mission is to empower all audio engineers to reach their full potential. We envision a world where every audio professional has an equal chance to succeed. By levelling the playing field and inspiring leadership to make an inclusive live music industry accessible to all abilities, we strive towards a world where careers in event sound can be pursued with open doors to competitive employment, leading to equal success outcomes.
You?
If there are common goals between our project and yours, please get in touch and we would be more than happy to explore how we can maximise synergy. We are looking to complement and join up existing resources, not reinvent the wheel!
As ‘Sound Without Sight’ is a new project, and our team members are currently contributing their time voluntarily, we are seeking funding and collaboration opportunities to bring our idea to life with the polish and scale that it deserves.