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Putting on events

Case study: doubling ticket sales with North Downs Community Orchestra

Lin Larmer, a trustee of North Downs Community Orchestra, tells us how by following a Making Music webinar, the orchestra sold more than double their usual number of tickets.

Background

North Downs Community Orchestra (NDCO) was established in 2016 as an adult non-auditioned community orchestra where no one is ever turned away because of seat quotas or skill level. Our other name is the Fun Orchestra, as that is our main aim!

Webinar recording: Touring with your music group

In this recording of our webinar (original event 11 February 2025), we partnered with our corporate member Rayburn Tours to talk about how to organise a tour with your music group.

Webinar recording: Power of Projects

In this webinar, four guest speakers shared their experiences of creating impactful projects, including Teesside Music Society, Wolverhampton Symphony Orchestra, Vox Holloway, and Michael Betteridge of The Sunday Boys (original event 29/11/2024). 

CHORALLY

Corporate member CHORALLY is a dedicated online community platform that connects the world of choral and vocal music.

Founded by Ian Clethero, who launched the project as he saw a need for a ‘go-to place’ online to make it easy for choir leaders, performing groups, singing enthusiasts and organisations around the world to find information and network with each other.

Case study: Working together with the Wetherby Choral Society

Heather Marsh, Chair of Wetherby Choral Society, describes how her group worked with the Royal National Lifeboat Institution for their mutual benefit and that of the wider community. 

Welcome new people: building diversity and inclusion (online event)

If you’d like your group and your audience to be more diverse and inclusive, thinking about how you recruit and welcome people is crucial. And if you want to increase your membership and your audiences, recruiting and welcoming new people in a way that is inclusive means you’ve more chance of success. Whatever your driver, there are actions you can take that will remove the barriers to joining your activity and provide access to more people. 

Location

ONLINE
United Kingdom
See map: Google Maps
GB

Learn more about choirs and Orchestra Tax Relief (online event)

Over the last 20 years governments have introduced various creative tax reliefs to enable organisations to claim back some of their production costs. Two of these – Orchestra Tax Relief and Theatre Tax Relief – are already being used by Making Music members to claim back an average 23% of their concert and event costs. Especially now that a higher rate of relief has been made permanent in the spring budget, these tax reliefs can make a significant contribution to groups’ budgets and facilitate growth and activity.

 

Location

ONLINE
United Kingdom
See map: Google Maps
GB

Bands for Hire

Music agency providing live bands for every occasion. 

Sound Escapes UK Performance Tours

Based in Nottingham, Sound Escapes is a specialist touring operator that arranges tailor-made tours for music ensembles in the UK, Ireland and beyond. 

Try Booking

Try Booking online ticketing makes life easier and helps to grow audiences. 

Music groups face a range of challenges – from finding committee members with enough time to do the organizing, increasing costs and declining audience numbers.

Small changes can make a big difference and one easy win is moving to online ticketing.

If you currently manage ticketing manually consider:

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