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Positive About Equal Opportunities? |
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Is your music group positive about equal opportunities? |
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Most music groups would say that their activities are open to anyone but there are often still unintentional barriers preventing some people from taking part. How can you ensure that you have taken reasonable steps to remove these barriers? And how could you prove this, for example when you are applying for funding?
As part of Making Music's Training and Development Programme there are a series of Equal Opportunities and Marketing Training events across the UK.
- Click here for current listings
- Click here for contact details of your Regional Development Officer
Good equal opportunities practice is a requirement of most funding bodies - many of the grants available to arts organisations, including the Lottery, are public money, and funders are anxious to ensure that they will be used to benefit everyone.
Good equal opportunities practice can also improve your efficiency as an organisation, the quality of your management, the range and quality of your group's artistic output and your relationship with audiences, artists, staff and volunteers.
"positive about equal opportunities" award
Making Music's "positive about equal opportunities" award provides a check list for member societies of Making Music to use to assess whether there are further steps they could take with regard to equal opportunities.
For those member groups who have taken these steps it also provides an indication to others that you are "positive about equal opportunities".
To check whether your group could qualify for the Making Music "positive about equal opportunities" award read through the 9 questions. If your group can answer "yes" to all 9 questions then you can apply for the award. If successful you will be eligible to display the award logo on your posters, leaflets and programmes.
A number of Making Music members have already successfully applied for this award. Follow the link here to read some case studies explaining more.
To apply for the "positive about equal opportunities" award you need to:
- Discuss the 9 questions at a gathering of at least 75% of the membership of the group or at a General Meeting and agree that you can answer "yes" to all 9 questions on the application form and submit the application form, completed and signed by the Chair of your group.
If you have any comments on the "positive about equal opportunities" award or suggestions for improvement please contact us.
Please click here to download the Information Sheet containing the 9 questions and the application form. |
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 Making Music, 020 7422 8280 |
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 Making Music, 2-4 Great Eastern Street, London EC2A 3NW |
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info@makingmusic.org.uk |
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Philip & Dorothy Green Young Concert Artists Award |
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Fox & Hodgson Bursaries |
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This Award enables young musicians to gain vital performance experience and Making Music member societies to programme some of the best young musical talent into their concert season. |
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The Raymond Fox and Alfreda Hodgson Bursaries are awarded in alternate years to outstanding young instrumentalists and vocalists. |
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Sir Charles Groves Prizes |
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Philip & Dorothy Green Composer in Residence |
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These are awarded annually to a Making Music member and professional British musician in recognition of outstanding contributions to British musical life. |
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This is a new opportunity for young composers at the beginning of their careers to enable them to be associated with making Music for a period of a year to 18 months. |
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