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Wingate Foundation Music Grant

 

The Wingate Foundation grant scheme is intended to support organisations that provide education, resources or performance opportunities to musicians. The scheme aims to fund projects that have a large potential for success beyond the funding period.

Eligible expenditure includes:

  • Master Classes
  • Bursaries
  • Tuition
  • Performances and events
  • Eligible ongoing expenses or capital development projects

Southampton City Council Community Chest

 

Community Chest is the council's small grant scheme. Grants of between £100 and £2,500 are available for small, volunteer led community groups.

Community and voluntary organisations with an annual income of less than £250,000 supporting Southampton city residents are eligible to apply. Organisations with an annual income of less than £50,000 have priority.

Applicants must demonstrate that members/attendees make contributions towards the group/project unless there are exceptional circumstances not to do so.

Bassetlaw - Councillor Community Grants

 

The Fund aims to provide general grant support to the community that will benefit the socio-economic culture and environment of Bassetlaw. Each District Councillor is allocated a small budget and has the discretion to award grants to community activities that will benefit the community within their respective electoral ward areas.

The activity must be located within the Bassetlaw District or be of significant benefit to people living in Bassetlaw.

The application should demonstrate:

Sing for peace as part of One Day One Choir

Launched in 2014, One Day One Choir is an exciting choral initiative aiming to promote peace and unity through singing together. On 21 September (International Day of Peace) choirs around the globe are invited to hold an event and sing on the theme of peace.

Insiders Anonymous: The country house opera usher

It’s not well paid and no one needs to see Carmen four times in a summer, but something keeps them coming back.

The final rehearsal!...

We had an excellent rehearsal on Sunday. Kirsty Devaney and her mentor Colin Riley came along and made some really constructive comments which pulled the piece together. Kirsty has written a truly original, imaginative piece.

Reflections on 'Against the Clock'

'To think it’s only been seven days' muses a handsome, yet disheveled, man on a 1971 public information film having exited what looks like a bunker.

New resource: model contract for working with Music Directors

Our new model contract for working with a Music Director (MD) is now available, having previously been withdrawn for review. Following work with the Incorporated Society of Musicians (ISM) and the Association of British Choral directors (abcd) the new version is a more robust and practical document that will help to establish a good working relationship between your group and your MD.

The joys of Adopting a Composer

Making Music’s Adopt a Composer scheme started in 2000, and since then there have been around ninety pairings. First performed in May this year, Hive Minds, a collaboration between composer Seán Doherty and the Kensington Symphony Orchestra, was one of the most recent.

Opera Anywhere introduce themselves

Opera Anywhere has been touring opera productions since 2000, we’re a registered charity and have a growing reputation for