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Musicians Benevolent Fund charity partnership
Making Music has partnered with Musicians Benevolent Fund to develop activities and opportunities that benefit young musicians, music professionals and its member groups.
Last modified on: 18/05/2011
Making Music has established a charity partnership with the Musicians Benevolent Fund which will see the two organisations working together to develop mutually-beneficial activities and projects.
The Musicians Benevolent Fund supports music professionals throughout their working lives who are in need as a result of illness, accident or other misfortune, and in later life, with the challenges that face older people. Like Making Music it also supports talented young musicians to help them to realise their creativity and musical potential through a range of award schemes.
Making Music is committed to helping the Musicians Benevolent Fund to further its work through this partnership, whilst at the same time developing our own work and creating more opportunities for our member voluntary music organisations.
The partnership kicked off in 2010 with a bigger and better young musician booking scheme for Making Music members, offering a wider range of young concert artists, instruments and voices at preferential rates. The additional young musicians are selected from the highly-competitive Musicians Benevolent Fund Postgraduate Performance Awards to complement our Philip and Dorothy Green Award for Young Concert Artists and to provide the young artists with more performance experience and exposure. The Musicians Benevolent Fund relies on donations and the scheme will also help to raise funds for their work.
