18 Oct, 2019 | Community Project, Music Education, News
This lovely Primary School in London needed our help to get music properly embedded in the school. We were able to offer a Community Grant and here is what happened next (in the words of the school): “This grant has really benefited the school, the local community...
14 Oct, 2019 | Community Project, Individual Support, Music Education, News
We always especially try and help those who help others to become musicians and here’s what we have been able to do for Sara! “I have been teaching music for beginners successfully, but very much wanted to advance my own skills in order to have more to offer my...
11 Oct, 2019 | Community Project, Music Education, News
This lovely Primary School in Bradford needed our help to get more instruments for the children to learn on. We stepped in and have just had this positive update from the school: “The grant for St John’s has allowed us to widen our instrumental provision in the...
4 Oct, 2019 | Community Project, Music Education, News
The Springwell Academy in Leeds asked us to help them with some DJ gear in order to run proper workshops for the young people. We were delighted to be able to help and have just had this report from Adam: “Thanks to Music for all, we have been able to purchase...
19 Sep, 2019 | Community Project, Music Education, News
This charming Primary School needed our help to support all the children that wanted to learn music. The Academy serves a very mixed area demographically, with many children from families where music lessons would simply not be on the agenda, for a variety of social...
13 Sep, 2019 | Community Project, Music Education, News
We were delighted to be able to recently help the 17th Tonbridge Scout and Guide Band with a Community Grant. In their words: “The grant was a significant factor in allowing us to recruit 13 new members. One of the major issues we have had in the past is being able to...
6 Sep, 2019 | Community Project, Music Education, News
This wonderful Care in the Community Group work with older people and adults with learning difficulties to make a positive impact on their wellbeing through music. We were delighted to be able to give them a grant and have just heard this from them: “Music for...
29 Aug, 2019 | Community Project, Music Education, News
The Passage runs London’s largest voluntary sector resource centre for homeless and vulnerable people, each day they help up to 200 men and women. Their aim is to provide homeless people with support to transform their own lives. A lovely lady called Geraldine...
16 Aug, 2019 | Community Project, Music Education, News
This charming Primary School in Thornaby needed our help to fulfil their vision of creating a brass band for the children. In their words: “The grant has helped fund the purchase of brass instruments and as a result, this helped form the Thornaby Junior Brass Band....
15 Aug, 2019 | Community Project, Music Education, News
The Selly Oak Live at Home Scheme asked for our help to buy some ukuleles to set up a group for people over the age of 50 to be able to learn to play the ukulele. Here’s what happened next in their words: “The grant has enabled a group of 16 people over the age of 50...
13 Aug, 2019 | Community Project, Music Education, News
This lovely school in Swansea really believe in the power of music and asked if we could help them to allow more children to get involved in music making. In their words: “The grant has provided us with the opportunity to offer instrumental tuition to a far wider...
12 Aug, 2019 | Community Project, Music Education, News
209 West Bridgford Squadron in Nottingham needed our help with instruments, read on to see what a difference we have already made (in their words): “This grant has enabled us to, for the first time, acquire drums and bugles and allowed the squadron to participate in...
9 Aug, 2019 | Community Project, Music Education, News
This lovely Junior School in Kettering asked for our help to be able to purchase a set of hand chimes. In the words of Karen, Year 3 Teacher: “The grant from Music for All has enabled our junior school to purchase enough hand chimes to give us a complete 3 octave set....
7 Aug, 2019 | Community Project, Music Education, News
This charming school in East Sussex asked for our help in getting some electronic drums to help them get more people in their music programme. Read on to hear what happened next (the drums are just a part of the plan!)… “This term we piloted the mentoring programme...
31 Jul, 2019 | Community Project, Music Education, News
This lovely Primary School in Cumbria needed our support to buy 30 ukuleles. The challenges to school budgets are harming so many children’s life-chances to learn to make music. We simply can’t stand by and watch this happen, so our charity will always act whenever it...
26 Jul, 2019 | Community Project, Music Education, News
Studio 3 Arts is a wonderful non-profit community project that asked for our help to be able to buy a piano. In their own words: “The piano has now been installed at our new space in a re-purposed shop at the heart of the Shopping Centre in Barking where it will be...
25 Jul, 2019 | Community Project, Music Education, News
UAA asked for our help to buy some African musical instruments including djembe drums, a dun dun drum, tambourine and shakers for their community African drumming and dance group, the Dancing Drums. In their words: “We had a small number of drums and they were either...
25 Jul, 2019 | Community Project, Music Education, News
The charming Primary School in Birmingham suffered a terrible flood last year that ruined all the children’s instruments. We had to help the situation and were only too pleased to get them new ones! In the words of the school “Quite simply, the Grant has been vital in...
17 Jul, 2019 | Community Project, Music Education, News
This lovely Primary School in Birmingham asked for our help to bring music back into the school. They had not had a Recorder Club for 14 years and we felt we had to help. We have just heard that all is going well with the newly-formed Club and the children are...
15 Jul, 2019 | Community Project, Music Education, News
Cathedral Sing is an outreach project from Portsmouth Cathedral that takes music into the classroom and then into concerts with Portsmouth Cathedral Choir. We were asked if we could support this excellent project. As a result of the grant we were able to give, they...
11 Jul, 2019 | Community Project, Music Education, News
The charming Ricall Community Primary School in York badly needed our help to allow the children to learn and play for free. In their words: “The funding has allowed us to purchase musical instruments for all children, enabling them to learn to play free of charge....
11 Jul, 2019 | Community Project, Music Education, News
Park Community School is a great school in Hampshire badly and they badly needed a piano for the children to use and learn on. They asked if we could help. We were delighted to able to give them a Community Grant and here it is in...
11 Jul, 2019 | Community Project, Music Education, News
This lovely High School in Wigan needed our help to get some instruments to allow more of the students to be able to make music. The school was given a grant and special performance took place in Year 7 and 8 assemblies. This generated new interest from students...
28 Jun, 2019 | Community Project, Music Education, News
The wonderful Egham Band asked for our help to enable more young children to get involved. We were able to provide a number of instruments that have allowed each child in Year 5 at St Jude’s C of E School to have their own instrument and join the band. The children...
