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Treasurers meetup (online event)

Being treasurer of your group can be a rewarding experience, as well as a time-consuming and frustrating one. Making Music is hosting this meetup for Treasurers, where you’ll have the chance to connect with treasurers of other groups in breakout rooms, share your issues and experiences, and pick up some top tips for how to approach the role. 

 

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Location

Online
United Kingdom

Online member meetup (Northern Ireland)

Running your group is a rewarding but challenging role. Our regular meetups are a chance for you to meet and share learning and ideas with other Northern Ireland groups facing similar challenges, explore specific issues affecting leisure-time music making in Northern Ireland and consider how we can work collaboratively to find solutions and advocate for the sector. 

Stephen McNally, Northern Ireland manager, will be leading this session.

 

We'll talk about:

Location

Online
United Kingdom

Online member meetup (Wales)

Running your group is a rewarding but challenging role. Our regular meetups are a chance for you to meet and share learning and ideas with other Wales groups facing similar challenges, explore specific issues affecting leisure-time music making in Wales and consider how we can work collaboratively to find solutions and advocate for the sector. 

Miranda Glen, Wales manager, will be leading this session.

 

We'll talk about:

Location

Online
United Kingdom

Online member meetup (Scotland)

Running your group is a rewarding but challenging role. Our regular meetups are a chance for you to meet and share learning and ideas with other Scotland groups facing similar challenges, explore specific issues affecting leisure-time music making in Scotland and consider how we can work collaboratively to find solutions and advocate for the sector. 

Alison Reeves, Scotland manager, will be leading this session.

 

We'll talk about:

Location

Online
United Kingdom

TryBooking Lunchtime Webinar (online event)

Join us for the first in a new series of lunchtime webinars presented by our corporate members.

In this session we will hear from TryBooking.

Concert audiences are waining, revenue from concerts is waining.  Trybooking has supported music concerts since 2014 from concerts in village halls to Westminster Abbey – we are here to help you with your 2025 concerts.

Trybooking is a customer centric platform, with a great team to help you at any point before during and after your concert.

Location

Online
United Kingdom

Climate change network for leisure-time music groups (online event)

Come to our latest Climate change network event – hear some inspiring speakers and come away with some useful tools for your music group to consider.

Twice a year, music groups gather in these online Climate change networks to be inspired and to share tips, tools and resources to help them make their own groups more environmentally sustainable and also to influence their group members, their families and friends, and audiences.

Location

Online
United Kingdom

Find out about becoming a Making Music trustee (online event)

You may never have considered becoming a trustee and may not know much about what it involves: find out more at this event about how your skills and experience could help Making Music and what you would be expected to do.

Making Music is a charity and 9 of its (maximum 14) trustees are elected by and from the membership. They are ultimately responsible for the charity and help set the strategic direction of Making Music and oversee its work.  

Location

Online
United Kingdom

Planning for access and inclusion (online event)

Many leisure-time music groups want to be more accessible and inclusive, for a whole range of reasons. But when your volunteers’ time is short, and you have a busy programme to deliver, it can seem like too big a task to tackle. At this event we’ll look at how creating an action plan can identify what will work to include a wider diversity of people in your group, and drive the positive change you’re looking for.  

Location

Online
United Kingdom

Highnotes

In the spring edition of Highnotes, we explore the effects of menopause on the singing voice and ways to address them, present the fourth report from the Big Survey 2022, and share insights from government participation data. Plus, Samir Savant, CEO of St George’s Bristol, discusses a groundbreaking project on music and mental health.

Making Music discounts: Overview

We know that many of our member groups operate on a tight budget. Working with our corporate members, we’ve collected more than two dozen discounts, subsidies and offers to help our members save on everything from sheet music to booking artists and making recordings.