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Mapping Our Music Makers (2008) |
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In 2008 we conducted a census of Making Music's diversifying membership. We discovered that:
- Membership of Making Music has increased by 18% since 2005.
- 25% of our members perform repertoire rooted outside Western Classical music.
- Where groups representing niche interests may be small in number, they nevertheless collectively reveal a considerable range of interests and specialist activity, whether
those be musical or non-musical in their objectives.
- Collectively, Making Music members represent around 19% of all voluntary music-making activity in the UK.
- 24% of our members have some kind of community focus outside of purely music-making.
- 87% of our members describe themselves as either thriving or stable, reflecting the vibrancy and strength of the voluntary music sector.
- Only 13% of members say they are struggling, as a result predominantly of either membership or funding concerns. Although this is a small percentage and refutes any
notion of a decline in the sector, this is nevertheless of concern, and requires further investigation.
- Making Music is diversifying in its membership and will continue to do so in the years ahead. Fastest growing in terms of relative numbers of groups joining are samba
groups, handbell ringing ensembles and barbershop choruses, which between them account for 123 member organisations (or nearly 5% of the membership).
To read the full report, click here. |
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Content last updated:
5 January 2010 |
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