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Thousands of UK leisure-time music groups to benefit from increased practical support and advocacy
Making Music, the UK’s membership organisation for leisure-time music groups, is delighted to have been awarded a grant from Esmée Fairbairn Foundation.
The award of £199,980 over three years will enable Making Music to offer even more services to its 4,000 member groups and empower them to advocate for their activity and the benefits of music making.
Esmée Fairbairn Foundation is one of the largest grant makers in the UK, aiming to strengthen bonds in communities, improve our natural world and secure a fairer future.
The grant will allow Making Music to continue to support its members in all aspects of running their groups and improving their financial resilience through a range of admin and finance resources and services, such as Making Music’s Orchestra Tax Relief service. A dedicated Support Officer has been appointed to help groups using Making Music Platform – an all-in-one management system combining a website, a members’ area and an admin database – funded by the Esmée Fairbairn grant in the first year.
Members will also be able to access new online resources and events on access and inclusion, produced in partnership with organisations representing people with lived experience of barriers to participation.
Alison Reeves, Making Music Scotland Manager since 2016, will now also lead work on access and inclusion and support lobbying and advocacy as part of an expanded role as Deputy CEO, made possible thanks to the Esmée Fairbairn grant.
Barbara Eifler, Making Music Chief Executive, said:
“We are delighted to receive funding from a grant maker whose vision of vibrant communities is one that Making Music entirely shares. This funding allows us to scale up our support for music groups of all kinds and all genres, empowering them to manage their activity, to bring joy, pride and well-being to their audiences, and to articulate their worth to policy makers.”
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Making Music, 8 Holyrood Street, London SE1 2EL
020 7939 6030
info@makingmusic.org.uk
www.makingmusic.org.uk
Twitter: @MakingMusic_UK
Instagram: @makingmusicuk
Facebook: facebook.com/makingmusicuk
YouTube: youtube.com/makingmusic
Making Music, The National Federation of Music Societies
A company limited by guarantee, registered in England and Wales no. 308632
Registered Charity in England and Wales no. 249219 and in Scotland no. SC038849
Notes to editors
Making Music has championed leisure-time music groups since 1935 across the UK with practical services, artistic development opportunities and by providing a collective voice for its members. We represent over 4,000 groups made up of around 220,000 musicians of all types, genres and abilities. We help them run their groups so they can get on with making music! www.makingmusic.org.uk
Esmée Fairbairn Foundation aims to improve our natural world, secure a fairer future and strengthen the bonds in communities in the UK. We unlock change by contributing everything we can alongside people and organisations with brilliant ideas who share our goals. The Foundation is one of the largest independent grant-makers in the UK. In 2021, we provided £51.6m in grant funding towards a wide range of work in support of our aims. We also have a £45 million allocation to social investments for organisations with the aim of creating social impact. www.esmeefairbairn.org.uk
