Agreed Derek. However there is pressure on all publicly-funded bodies (not just in the arts) to increase diversity. It is up to the organisations themselves how they do this. Whilst the intention is laudable, the reasons for exclusion are often complex and sometimes lie within the communities themselves.

All the organisations can do is try to be welcoming to all. Perhaps the name plays a part in this. However whatever EFDSS chooses to call itself, sooner or later those individuals who engage with it will have to face the fact that it is concerned principally with English music. Surely that is the point, not the name of an organisation which claims to represent it (although with an individual membership of only around 2200 it seems to have very little authority for that claim).