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Gedling Community Grants

 

Every year we give money to support local community groups and activities.

Your local councillors decide on whether grants are approved and how much is given. Each councillor has £1,500 to award during this year.

To make an application, please return this form. To complete the form you must know who your local ward councillor is.

Four Lanes Trust

 

The Four Lanes Trust offers grants to community groups and organisations in Basingstoke and surrounding areas. Funding is intended to support local community projects in the following areas: • The Arts. • Education. • Social and Community Action.

Grants of between £500 and £1,000 are normally awarded; however, larger grants are considered from time to time.

Active Communities

Local groups and organisations with great ideas to make their communities even better places to live are now invited to apply for funding from ‘Active Communities’ to turn their ideas into reality.

Active Communities is a funding programme for community groups and not-for-profit organisations, with an income of less than £350,000 a year or an average of £350,000 over two years.

Find new members and audiences with BBC Get Playing

This summer, we will be partnering with the BBC, ABRSM and Music for All to support the BBC’s ‘Get Playing’, a major new initiati

Find new young audiences and members with Arts Award

Arts Award is a national initiative that aims to support children and young people (<25) to deepen their experience, engagemen

Jonathan Dove’s new piece for amateur choirs premières

A commission takes time to come to fruition, and so it was that despite having been at Making Music now for four years, I had not

Farewell to Guy Woolfenden, composer and patron of Birmingham Symphonic Winds

British composer Guy Woolfenden, patron of Making Music member Birmingham Symphonic Winds, has passed away.

Help put 'A Choir in Every Care Home'

'A Choir in Every Care Home' is an initiative to explore how music and singing can feature regularly in care homes across the cou

Discovering the Ukulele – back to basics.

This blog post has been a long time coming as it was put on pause while I have been finishing my PhD.

My first time on the cello

Andy Jackson, the inspirational leader of Cobweb Orchestras, thought the best way for me to get an idea of how they work would be to join in one of their groups, and he organised a cello for me to play. But what Andy didn’t know until I met him in the Sage Gateshead café that day that I have never held a cello before in my life.

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