Making Music is a charity dedicated to empowering everyone, whatever their background or experience, to come together with others in their community to make or present music
We are a membership organisation, so music groups pay us a membership fee. But we want to be accessible to absolutely everyone, whatever the size of their financial pockets, so we keep our charges as low as we can. That is then hard to balance with the cost of the resources we need to do everything we can to support and champion music groups!
So your donation can make a real difference: whether it’s a one-off, a regular monthly contribution or a legacy in your will - your gift will help us provide the resource that leisure-time music groups need to flourish whilst keeping our membership fee levels as low and accessible as possible.
What do we do for music groups?
- We provide practical support: how to set up a music group; guidance on the many things involved in running a music group and promoting events from performing rights to safeguarding, managing money to social media, a purpose-built insurance scheme, an online admin system and website template with technical support, and much much more...
- We connect groups - to each other, to relevant experts, to organisations: through online events, our Facebook communities, our Find a Group tool and member directory. The best way for groups to learn and be inspired is to put them in touch with their peers. For our events, we also invite speakers with relevant expertise or collaborate with specialist organisations, to make the right information and guidance available to groups
- We are their collective voice to policymakers: whether that’s to prevent inadvertent negative fallout from new laws (e.g. Martyn's Law) or to actively campaign to improve conditions for music groups (e.g. our #MakeSpaceForMusicCampaign – if it impacts our sector, we’ll tell groups, we’ll try and find a way to put it right, we’ll campaign
- We celebrate music groups: we showcase members in blogs, news and photos on our website and our social media, also featuring their events on those platforms; and we support Make Music Day on 21 June with performance opportunities, and more
By supporting us with a one-off donation, regular contribution or a legacy, you can help leisure-time music continue to flourish. Please support Making Music and donate now – thank you!
