We’re SOUNDYARD - an award winning non-profit social enterprise on a mission to teach audio-making skills to people who have brilliant stories to tell and inspired art to make – so that it’s not just the big studios and corporations that get the mic.
Any profit we make goes back in to our work - allowing us to teach audio production and make podcasts with voices that aren’t heard enough.
We centre our work on finding ways to amplify under-heard voices.
We are a small team of audio makers, who want to share our love and obsession with sound as an art form.
We pool together decades of diverse audio making experience: from producing programmes and podcasts in small communities to creating shows for large audiences on international platforms.
Who we are
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FounderSophie is a freelance audio producer, presenter and writer, with over 15 years experience championing new music, arts, culture and community (BBC Introducing/Upload/Radio 1/6music/Local & more).
At the moment she’s particularly interested in stories about children’s rights and challenging heteronormativity.
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FounderAnna is a freelance radio presenter and content producer. She was regularly heard broadcasting across the BBC and has crafted long form audio projects for network and local radio. As a journalist she has a background in news, current affairs and holding people to account. She’s fascinated by people’s connections to where they live and strives to empower others to tell their own stories.