To work alongside the unions of the Performers' Alliance - Equity, the Musicians' Union and the Writers' Guild of Great Britain - to raise issues affecting performers and writers across the arts community and to provide a forum for issues relating to arts and culture policy.
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11 Current APPG Officers
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Claire Hanna
Chair & Registered Contact
Social Democratic & Labour Party - Belfast South
Joined: 2nd June 2021Green New Deal
Banning Trophy Hunting , Education Technology , Intellectual Property , Internet, Communications and Technology , Music , National Trust , Spain , Theatre , Ticket Abuse , Timber Industries
Australia and New Zealand , BBC , Commonwealth , Electoral Campaigning Transparency , Environment , Fisheries , Food and Drink , Food and Drink Supply Chain , Forestry and Tree Planting , Geographically Protected Foods , Global Deforestation , Gypsies, Travellers and Roma , Hospitality and Tourism , Japan , Marine Energy , Norfolk Island , Youth Action against Climate Change
Digital Skills , Media Freedom , Media Literacy , Showing Racism the Red Card , Visual Arts
Apprenticeships , Boxing , Caribbean , Creative Diversity , Cuba , Democratic Republic of Congo , Domestic Violence and Abuse , Housing in the North , Kurdistan in Turkey and Syria , Liverpool City Region , Museums , National Trust , Northern Powerhouse , Palestine , Pedagogy, Curriculum and Accountability , Race Equality in Education , School Exclusions and Alternative Provision , Thalidomide , Western Sahara , Yemen , Zimbabwe
Animal Welfare , Coastal Communities , Creative Diversity , East of England , Independent Education , Liechtenstein , Publishing , Queen’s Platinum Jubilee 2022 , Switzerland , Theatre , Writers
Adult Social Care , Art, Craft and Design in Education , Bullying , CBD (Cannabidiol) Products , Music , Music Education , Performing Arts Education and Training , South West , Timber Industries
Agroecology for Sustainable Food and Farming , Belize , Cardiac Risk in the Young , Central America , Climate Change , Dog Advisory Welfare , Global Deforestation , Jordan , Music , Ocean Conservation , Russia , School Food , Small Island Developing States , Snooker , Somaliland , Sustainable Resource , Theatre , Tibet , Ticket Abuse , Trailer and Towing Safety , Vegetarianism and Veganism
Artificial Intelligence , China , Data Analytics , Data Poverty , Digital Regulation and Responsibility , Digital Skills , Future of Work , Indonesia , Intellectual Property , Internet, Communications and Technology , Music , Ovarian Cancer , Performing Arts Education and Training , Pharmacy , Publishing , Ticket Abuse , Video Games and Esports , Writers
Contact Details
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Claire Hanna MP, 1 Rushfield Avenue, Belfast, BT7 3FP. Tel: 028 9099 6066.
Public Enquiry Point:
Tom Pollard, Performers' Alliance, c/o the Musicians' Union, 60-62 Clapham Road, London SW9 OJJ. Tel: 07746 537 918
Email: performersallianceappg@outlook.com
Secretariat:
Performers' Alliance acts as the group's secretariat.
Benefits in Kind
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Performers' Alliance
Performers' Alliance is funded by Equity, Musicians' Union, and Writers' Guild of Great Britain to act as the group's secretariat. From : 13/01/2021 To : 12/01/2022
£13,501
13 Jan 2020
Performers' Alliance
Performers' Alliance is funded by Equity, Musicians' Union, and Writers' Guild of Great Britain to act as the group's secretariat. From : 13/01/2020 To : 12/01/2021
£13,501
5 Jul 2018
Performers' Alliance
Secretariat From : 05/07/2018 To : 04/07/2019
£12,001
6 Dec 2017
Performers' Alliance
Christmas party held on 6 December 2017
£3,001
5 Jul 2017
Performers' Alliance
Secretariat From : 05/07/2017 To : 04/07/2018
£12,001
13 Dec 2016
The Peformers Alliance
Christmas party
£6,001
1 Jan 2016
The Performer's Alliance
Secretariat From : 01/01/2016 To : 31/12/2016
£12,001
1 Jan 2015
Performers' Alliance
Secretariat From : 01/01/2015 To : 31/12/2015
£12,001
No direct financial benefits are on record for the Performers' Alliance APPG
Former APPG Officers
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Alison McGovern
Chair & Registered Contact
Labour - Wirral South
Joined: 16th March 2016Departed: 21st April 2021
Football , Friends of Syria , Showing Racism the Red Card , Tackling Loneliness and Connected Communities , War Crimes , Women's Football
Pete Wishart
Officer
Scottish National Party - Perth and North Perthshire
Joined: 30th July 2015Departed: 21st April 2021
Earl of Clancarty
Officer
Crossbench - Excepted Hereditary
Joined: 28th September 2017Departed: 21st April 2021
Art, Craft and Design in Education , Craft , Music Education , Performing Arts Education and Training , Visual Arts , Writers
Tracy Brabin
Co-Chair
Labour (Co-op) - Former Member for Batley and Spen
Joined: 28th September 2017Departed: 5th November 2019
Lord Vaizey of Didcot
Vice-Chair
Conservative - Life peer
Joined: 24th November 2016Departed: 5th November 2019
Earl of Clancarty
Vice Chair
Joined: 30th July 2015Departed: 2nd May 2017
Children , Cycling and Walking , First Do No Harm , Global Deforestation , Japan , Olympic and Paralympic Games , Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus , Wood Panel Industry
Mike Gapes
Vice Chair
The Independent Group for Change - Former Member for Ilford South
Joined: 30th July 2015Departed: 12th October 2016
Cat Smith
Vice Chair
Labour - Lancaster and Fleetwood
Joined: 30th July 2015Departed: 12th October 2016
Autism , Boys' Brigade , Electoral Reform , First Do No Harm , Greenland , Iceland , Parkrun , Running , Social Work , Transport Across the North , Uplands and Hill Farming , Valproate and other Anti-Epileptic Drugs in Pregnancy