Bandspace was founded by Trevor Mason in July 2014. He was the Project Evaluator for the £0.5m UK government's Pilot Music Rehearsal Spaces project working with UK Music, the Music Industries Association and Youth Music in 2012. The final report can be found here. The report concluded a network and more information about music rehearsal spaces would help to improve access and benchmark their offers to the benefit of musicians.

There is currently no representative body acting for music rehearsal spaces (not recording studios). This became evident in Trevor's research for two good practice guides for music spaces in youth centres published by the UK Government's Department for Education and the Big Lottery Fund under its Myplace programme:

1) Good Practice Guide to Planning Music in a Myplace Centre

2) Running a Music Facility in a Myplace Centre

Trevor gained an MA degree in Arts Management from London's City University in 2006 where his thesis investigated The Economic Value of Informal music-making in London.

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He has had articles published in the Zone and Sounding Board community music magazines making links between the prevalence of informal music-making and music rehearsal spaces.

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Trevor started out as a music promoter in Kent in England, before becoming a music columnist for 12 years at the Kent Messenger Group newspapers. He worked as a Music Officer for Arts Council England and was the London region officer for the National Foundation for Youth Music. He developed a consultancy working for the London Roundhouse, A New Direction, English Folk Dance and Song Society, Hackney and Medway Councils, the Hip Hop Shakespeare Company, Pegasus Opera, Visiting Arts, RollingSound, Sound Connections and Point Blank.