About Metal For Good

Metal For Good is the brainchild of two rock and metal fans, inspired to try and make a positive difference in society using the power of music.

However, Metal For Good wouldn’t be possible without a group of incredible trustees, advisors, and supporters.

Who Are We?

Katy and Chris Baker are the founders and driving force behind Metal For Good. As passionate rock and metal fans for over 25 years, they believe that the rock and metal community is uniquely positive and a force for social change. Katy and Chris live in the West Midlands and love spending their summers travelling to music festivals with their 4-year-old son – Kit, in their 1987 VW campervan – Betsy.

Photo of Katy, Chris and Kit Baker at a music festival
Team MFG at Download Festival

Katy is an experienced youth worker, charity leader, and consultant who has worked for several awesome charities such as UK Youth, Catch 22, and UpRising during her 17-year career. She is passionate about addressing inequalities and delivering long-term sustainable impact through innovative fundraising and partnerships. Katy’s day job is as a Director for Oaks Consultancy, which specialises in advising socially-minded organisations on organisational strategy, charity formation, and sustainable fundraising. Some of her clients include World Rugby, The Carers Trust, and Aster Housing Group. Katy is also a trustee of The Black Country Living Museum (TikTok legends and home of the Peaky Blinders!).

Chris is an experienced designer and brand strategist. As well as working on Metal For Good, he is Creative Director at 5874 Commerce, a Birmingham-based commerce and marketing agency. Chris has over 10-years’ experience in the design industry, specialising in branding, e-commerce, and customer experience. Chris has worked with organisations ranging in size and sector but includes clients such as Johnnie Walker Whiskey, the University of Birmingham Guild of Students, and Topps Tiles. Chris is also a trustee for Noah’s Star, a Midlands-based charity supporting the families of premature babies.

Board of Trustees

Hugh ‘Moose’ Evans – Chair

Moose has been privileged and honoured to lead remarkable teams across many continents and decades. At the root of all his success is incredible people with inspirational ideas and boundless imagination. He prefers to see the good in people and forever strives to be part of the solution to making the world a better place.

Moose has spent most of his adult life in radio, and is CEO of Primordial Radio – a British premium online radio platform specialising in rock and metal music.

Neil Cossey

Neil is an FCA (Chartered Accountant) with over 30 years’ experience of businesses. Most of this experience has been as a divisional finance director within large PLCs responsible for maximising profits of contracts, but at the same time, being responsible for the financial controls within those operations and being responsible for all risk (including financial, legal, reputational, and physical) especially when being an approved person under the Financial Conduct authority.

More recently Neil has been the CFO of a multinational charity, understanding the needs of a charity, the responsibility of the Executive and the Trustees, the governance of a charity as well as the day-to-day finances and managing income and expenditure.

Lisa Bardsley

“As a young teenager in deepest Dorset a school friend’s boyfriend taped me a couple of albums on a trusty TDK C90, those albums were by Motorhead. He did it as a joke , he thought I’d hate it, it backfired as the music flicked a switch on in my brain and started my everlasting love for heavy metal and classic rock music. The obsession was strong and I pursued a dream of working in the music business which lead me to being a freelance writer for Kerrang and Metal Hammer, music retail management and distribution label manager working with the world’s premier metal labels including Roadrunner, Music For Nations, Relapse, Metal Blade and Earache”

For the last decade Lisa has been a freelance music marketing consultant with clients including the Steelhouse Festival, Home of Metal and the band Thunder.

Nic Skipwith

“My name is Nic, I’m a lifelong fundraiser, originally from Hertfordshire but now based in Birmingham, mum of two, married to Tom, and Chair of Trustees at Noah’s Star. I’ve spent my entire career involved in fundraising in some way and couldn’t be happier to be involved in Metal For Good. I’ve worked for a variety of charities including Richard House – a local children’s hospice, and Macmillan Cancer Support and have covered lots of different fundraising areas from individual giving to corporate partnerships.”

For the past 4 years Nic has been a director at Oaks – a specialist consultancy supporting socially-minded organisations with strategy, fundraising, and income generation.

Neil Turnham

Neil has been a talent professional for 25 years working in HR leadership and executive search roles, principally in the media and events sector with companies such as Paramount Global, Global Media & Entertainment (UK) and Ascential plc.

In 2021 Neil Co-Founded PurposeFused in the US and UK, a company that uses purpose to help people go forward as the ultimate version of themselves and unlock their potential to make a meaningful impact. Neil’s personal purpose is the ‘help people focus on what really matters so that they can build the future they want’.

Neil is a self-proclaimed heavy music aficionado of the period 1989-1996 which comes in handy for the occasional pub quiz and nostalgic listening session.