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Authentic Publishing, part of Authentic Media, is owned by Send the Light (STL), Europe’s biggest Christian distribution company, and originate UK recordings by Phatfish, Heart of Worship, tbc, thebandwithnoname, Andrew Mitchell, Nicki Rogers and others, and also distribute for Hillsong, Word/Warner, Seam of Gold, Planetshakers, Vineyard, Gaither and others. www.authenticmedia.co.uk

Collins is part of HarperCollins Publishers and publishes the bestselling Mission Praise family of titles as well as the website www.missionpraise.com and a range of other hymnbooks. In addition Collins publishes some of the UK’s bestselling Bibles including the Good News Bible, King James Version, and English Standard Version. www.collins.co.uk

Hymns Ancient & Modern Ltd first published in 1861 and with worldwide sales of 170 million copies, is just one of the company’s growing range of classic and new hymns and song collections that includes Common Praise. The New English Hymnal, Church Hymnary 4 (also published as Hymns of Glory Songs of Praise). The Irish Presbyterian Hymnbook and several collections by Timothy Dudley-Smith. It also publishes guides for choosing music for worship that is biblically relevant, theologically rich and liturgically appropriate. Today, the company is working increasingly closely with the Royal School of Church Music to bring to churches the best resources and support for worship formation through music.

In addition, under its Canterbury, SCM and RMEP imprints, Hymns A&M is a leading publisher of academic theology, reference books and dictionaries, liturgy, worship resources general spirituality and classroom resources for the teaching of religious education.

Hymns A&M also publishes the Church Times and other periodicals and owns Church House Bookshop in Westminster, London. Through the subsidiary Norwich Books and Music, Hymns A&M is a distributor for other publishers – notably RSCM and Church House Publishing.

Hymns Ancient & Modern is a registered charity with the aim to promote religion. This is achieved through publishing bookselling and distribution activities and grant giving. www.hymnsam.co.uk

Integrity Music Europe Ltd is a producer of Christian CDs, DVDs and software designed to enhance both corporate and personal worship. They also publish songs and represent the catalogues of Integrity Music Inc. throughout Europe. www.integrityeurope.com

The Jubilate Group  was founded in the 1960's by Michael Baughen (Rector of All Souls Langham Place, then Bishop of Chester) to equip and enrich the worshipping church with words full of integrity, and music that is singable. Innovations include ground-breaking revised texts to bring old hymns to new believers, and more recently its interactive web-site www.jubilate.co.uk, with over 2000 texts and tunes to download. Resound our new website, RESOUNDworship, has a growing number of songs. For downloads (currently free) click on the link www.RESOUNDworship.org

Kevin Mayhew Publishing was founded in 1976 as a publisher of hymn books across the Christian community, and quickly grew to embrace choral, organ & worship music. The book department provides liturgical resources, materials for children's ministry, theological & devotional books. www.kevinmayhew.com

Make Way Music was set up to support the ministry of Graham Kendrick, and currently owns and administrates 276 of his songs, 36 of which are in the CCLI Top 500. Make Way has released over 20 of Graham’s albums, including ‘What Grace’ and ‘Rumours of Angels’, and its website offers sheet music and downloads as well as information about Graham’s concerts and ministry around the world. www.grahamkendrick.co.uk

Praise Trust published the Praise hymn book in the year 2000. The (approx.) 1,000 items include a version of every biblical psalm, established modern songs and hymns and many great traditional hymns sensitively revised for a modern generation. Since then it has published two volumes by Christopher Idle – Exploring Praise! 1 -: the words and music and Exploring Praise! 2 : the authors and composers (which contain valuable information on each item and contributor) and has launched its subscription website. All three volumes are available in hard copy and as part of the website, to which new items (including previously unpublished material), sheet music, instrumental arrangements and backlog tracks are regularly added. www.praise.org.uk

Oxford University Press is a department of the University of Oxford and furthers the University's objective of excellence in research, scholarship, and education worldwide.  The Press's music publishing embraces a wide list of hymn texts and tunes which it administers or owns, and a large catalogue of sacred choral music. www.oup.co.uk/music/

The Royal School of Church Music (RSCM) is an educational charity dedicated to raising standards and promoting the best use of music in every style of Christian worship and in every denomination. Since its foundation in 1927, it has grown into an international organization providing inspiration, education and guidance to around 6,000 affiliated churches and choirs and over 3,000 individual members and supporters in more than 40 countries throughout the world. www.rscm.com

Salvationist Publishing & Supplies Ltd is the publishing and trading company of The Salvation Army in the United Kingdom, and a major publisher of Christian music and resources. SP&S provide an extensive range of music for all ages and standards, including music for brass bands, choral groups, alternative worship groups and much, much more. www.s-ps.co.uk

SCM Hänssler (formerly known as Hänssler Verlag) was founded in 1919 and is part of SCM-Verlag. SCM Hänssler publishes and distributes Christian books, songbooks, CDs, DVDs and software and serves as copyright administrator for national (German) and international songs. www.scm-haenssler.de

Small Stone Media, the newly formed music company with a heart for Christian music, was founded in the Autumn of 2007, by Peter Grasmeijer and Cees Van Vugt. Its goal is to serve as a areliable and pro-active partner for composers, lyricists, and other Christian music publishers around the world. Small Stone Media aims to achieve this through the development of four complimentary activities: Music Publishing, Copyright Administration, Distribution of sheet music and Services. www.smallstonemedia.com

Song Solutions an activity of the MemraLife Group which carries two services to writers and publishers.

Song Solutions CopyCare offers global publishing administration, with over eighteen offices worldwide. With over one hundred thousand songs and hymns, covering all the major languages and styles from traditional to modern, its staff have over three decades of experience in international Christian music publishing. Email: music@copycare.com www.copycare.com

Song Solutions Daybreak now works with both established and emerging writers across a diverse musical range from classical to electronic in all genres. Starting originally with a specialty in material for children, we now have one of the largest song catalogues written by UK children’s workers who have proven their material is engaging, fun and Biblically sound. Email: info@daybreakmusic.co.uk

Stainer & Bell, founded in 1907, are well known for their religious and hymnody publishing and represent the work of many internationally recognised hymn writers.  Full details of all their activities can be found at www.stainer.co.uk.

Thankyou Music mainly publishes modern worship songs and hymns and has a catalogue of over 4,500 songs.  Writers include Matt Redman, Tim Hughes, Brenton Brown, Stuart Townend, Keith Getty, Paul Oakley and Chris Bowater. www.kingswaysongs.com

Vineyard Records UK is first and foremost a worship ministry rather than a worship label. By that we mean that our focus is to serve the wider church with resources, training and music that enables todays church to worship God in a manner that is culture-current.

We are a not-for-profit organisation and to that end we reinvest our proceeds to church planting, mission and ministry purposes. We have a symbiotic relationship with the Vineyard Church movement ensuring that our focus is always towards fulfilling ministry goals and our Board of Trustees is made up of church pastors. www.vineyardrecords.co.uk