About AudioUK
AudioUK is the industry body dedicated to advancing the podcast and audio industry – including radio and audiobooks – by fostering innovation, supporting creators and businesses, and driving commercial and creative growth.
You can find out more about the benefits of joining us here. Or email: admin@audiouk.org.uk
Equality, Diversity and Inclusion
EDI is central to the work of AudioUK. You can find resources and more here.
Business
Connecting suppliers to the marketplace; seeking new opportunities, including at an international level; providing business and legal affairs support.
Representation
Ensuring the sector continues to be recognised and listened to by Government, Parliament, regulators, journalists and industry
Community
Growing membership; giving audio producers a feeling of belonging to a growing and successful industry; sharing information and best practice; encouraging diversity in all its forms.
Excellence
Our members also create high-quality audio-led content and services in a range of other areas: events, audio games, audio guides, radio/audio branding, studio hire, CD and other physical audio media production.
Companies around the UK
AudioUK’s members are spread across the UK as shown in the map below. Click on any symbol on the map to see the name of the company and where it is based. These companies are in a position to work in their local communities to help project the different stories, perspective, lifestyles and histories of people all round the UK to the rest of the country, as well as working on UK-wide and international subject matter.
Audiotrain
The future of every creative industry relies on a skilled professional workforce, with a new generation ready to enter the sector to grow and become audio professionals through training, membership and mixing with their peers.
In 2015 AudioUK (then RIG) decided to set up a training and mentoring scheme. RIGtrain (now Audiotrain) was set up with funding from the Department of Business and Skills’ EOP Scheme via Creative Skillset, and the original scheme ran from 2015-2016.
With Creative Skillset subsequently repurposing to Screenskills, we have continued to run Audiotrain as a standalone not-for-profit training programme, providing a series of courses on everything from ‘How to use a microphone’ to ‘The Business of Podcasting’.
These courses are lively, informative and make use of the views and experience of genuine experts in their field.
Audiotrain has so far provided over 2500 learner days, with the attendees being around 60% women, 15% BAME, and 5% with a disability.
A list of current courses can be found on the Audiotrain page here.
Audio Production Awards
In 2010 we decided to set up an awards ceremony to celebrate the craft skills involved in all aspects of radio and audio production.
Originally titled the Radio Production Awards, they were rebranded in 2016 to the Audio Production Awards (APAs) reflect the widening areas of activity of our members.
The APAs has now become a regular fixture in the industry calendar with a high-profile ceremony at a major London venue.
You can find out more about the APAs here.
Our Board
AudioUK’s Board is elected by a ballot of member companies at the Annual General Meeting. Each company, regardless of its size, has one vote, and the directors come from a wide range of companies across the UK. If you would like to contact any director, please email our Administrator, Mike Hally, in the first instance.
Stuart Morgan
Andy Neilson
David Prest
Becky Lamb-Pritchard
Our Team
Our highly experienced executive support team is employed on a part-time basis. If you would like to contact any member of staff, please email our Acting Administrator, Mike Hally, in the first instance. The team includes:
Chloe Straw
CEO
Chloe Straw is CEO of AudioUK and a leading figure in the UK’s podcast, audio, and creative industries. With senior roles at Somethin’ Else (now Sony Music Entertainment) and We Are Grape, as well as a number of Board Director roles, she brings strategic vision and commercial expertise to growing businesses and the industry as a whole. Known for decisive, results-driven leadership, Chloe has strengthened AudioUK’s influence, expanded opportunities for businesses, and advanced the recognition of audio and podcasting within the wider creative economy.
Katie Banham
Marketing and Events Lead
Katie has been working in events for more than 20 years, producing and delivering live events across a wide variety of business sectors. She specialises in working with membership organisations having previously been Head of Events at Creative UK (formerly the Creative Industries Federation) and Director of Events and Marketing at BritishAmerican Business. Since going freelance in 2022 she has worked with a variety of clients in the creative industries delivering their large scale events and started working with AudioUK in 2023 as Lead Producer on the APAs (Audio Production Awards).
Juliette Nicholls
Audiotrain Programme Manager
Juliette spent a decade at Global, predominantly as an Audio Producer for Heart, creating imaging and trails for the Heart network’s biggest national campaigns, before starting podcast production company Pineapple Audio Production in 2018.
Since then, Pineapple has crafted over 1500 podcast episodes for clients including CNBC, Grazia, Clear Channel, Weightwatchers, Aramco, Metro and ITV.
She won the Radio Academy 30-under-30 in 2016 and 2018, and was made an Honorary Life Member of the Student Radio Association in 2019. She still holds a non-exec Advisor role on the board of the SRA.
Hannah Brankin
Policy and Regulation Lead
Hannah Brankin is a seasoned professional specializing in policy development, regulatory affairs, and operational management. As Chief Operations Officer and Director at Rusty Quill Ltd., she leads operational strategies that result in significant growth and global recognition in the media industry.
Hannah began her career in communications in the water sector, where she managed engagement strategies and chaired a crisis development program with Defra and Ofwat. Her board-level experience at AudioUK further deepens her engagement with policy, regulation, and business strategy.
Kerry Luter
Finance
Email: finance@audiouk.org.uk
Following the retirement of our long-serving Administrator, Kim Mason, the role has been split in two. Kerry will now look after all AudioUK’s finances, while Mike Hally, below, will temporarily deal with membership matters.
Mike Hally
Membership
Email: admin@audiouk.org.uk
Mike is looking after AudioUK’s membership and associated administration until December 2026, when Katie Banham will take over the role. As a founder-member of AudioUK’s predecessor, the Radio Independents Group, Mike has been involved in running the organisation in way or another for much of the last 21 years, while also producing hundreds of radio programmes both as an independent, and as a freelancer for the BBC in-house and for other indies.