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Setting up a group

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. 

 

We'll talk about:

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

Arranging and Copyright (online event)

We know that for many of our members there is a confusion and uncertainty around arranging and copyright, with fears of getting caught out for unintentionally not following the rules. This can be a significant barrier to celebrating the variety of repertoire that arrangements make it possible for groups to perform. We know arrangements are more important for many of you than new music commissions - but that is not reflected in the number of nominations for our Best Arranger for a Leisure-time Music Group Award. 

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

Insurance for your group from Making Music

The Making Music members’ insurance scheme is run by Finch, specifically for our members. It is offered to those members of Making Music which operate on a voluntary (ie non-professional) basis, for ‘activities associated with the general promotion of music and the performance of musical works’.

Making the most of your Making Music membership (online event)

 

Your Making music membership offers a wealth of benefits. They are designed to support you running your music group, to save time, effort and money, as well as offer ideas and inspiration.

But are you making the most of your membership? In this event we will explain what you have access to - and how we can help.

We'll talk about some of the main benefits:

Location

ONLINE
United Kingdom