In May, there are local elections in some parts of England (4 May), and in Northern Ireland (18 May). When your local candidates come knocking, you may want to talk to them about your music group.
Making Music members have told us about the issues that affect them at a local level, so below we have put together some asks you could pass on to your candidates if these issues are relevant to you, which you can adapt as necessary.
Learn to Play Day is back for another year! The annual event, organised by the Music for All charity, is a UK-wide day for lapsed or new musicians to take up playing an instrument and receive a free music lesson.
This year it will take place on 7 and 8 October 2023 at venues and music stores across the UK.
You can get involved in many ways - your music group could host a venue, you can encourage your music group members and your community to participate, or you yourself could learn a new instrument.
We’re delighted to announce a partnership with Brighton Early Music Festival for the newly expanded Philip and Dorothy Green Young Artists scheme to bring wider opportunities to brilliant young musicians.
The Philip and Dorothy Green Young Artists scheme (PDGYA) recognises some of the UK’s top young musical talents and provides Making Music groups with an affordable way of booking artists.
Charitable organisations are being targeted by scammers. Making Music provides guidance on how you can take protective measures.
It’s a sad truth that small community organisations are high on the target list for scammers and fraudsters. Technology makes it ever easier for criminals to target local organisations like music groups, and the people that run them in their thousands.
This month the UK government announced that the Orchestra Tax Relief claim rate will continue to stay at 50% for another two years.
Writer Graham Palmer, and composer and Adopt a Music Creator mentor Jenni Pinnock, call on East of England singing groups to take part in producing secular winter songs.
Spring may finally be upon us, but many music directors and committees will already be thinking ahead about what to programme for winter. Curating a diverse range of repertoire during the festive season can be a challenge, a challenge which the Yule Songs project hopes to make a little less trying.
This free network, chaired by Making Music, brings together organisations with an interest in singing in the UK. Chief Executive Barbara Eifler reports from its recent meeting.
We sit down with Richard Gonski, music director of Torbay Symphony Orchestra, to discuss their Royal Philharmonic Society (RPS) Inspiration Award 2023, decided by public vote.
I moved to Devon from London in 1996 and a few years later was asked to become conductor of what was then the Torbay Light Orchestra. At the first rehearsal, I asked that the orchestra change its name to Torbay Symphony Orchestra (TSO), which they very graciously agreed to.
The Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) invites the public to recognise and celebrate the accomplishments of extraordinary individuals and those that have made a significant contribution to the UK.
Do you know someone in your group who has devoted their time to organising charity events, someone that’s gone above and beyond to help your group shine in the last year or is dedicated to creating accessible music events for your local community? Champion the heroes in your life that enrich the leisure-time music scene.
In celebration of Women’s History Month, Making Music spotlights six iconic female composers of colour, a demographic that very often gets underrepresented in the music industry.
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