Information and Advice Event: focus on funding (Kendal)

Join local music groups for a free event at Kendal Town Hall, hosted by Making Music, where we’ll be discussing fundraising. Meet other music groups of all kinds, share ideas and advice, and make connections with singers, players and promoters in your area.

Sessions will include:

• Making Music updates – Stuart Isaac, Area Manager
  
  Find out more about the latest activities and resources available from the UK’s number one organisation for voluntary music, supporting 3,000 voluntary music groups across the UK.
  
• The role of the volunteer fundraiser – Kirsty McDowell, Fish Quay Consulting
  
  This session will include tips on where to focus your limited time as a volunteer fundraiser, your role in keeping the committee / members engaged, others' roles in supporting you, and ideas to help you set goals and organise your fundraising activities.
  
• Fundraising case study – Lake District Summer Music
  
  Representatives from the Lake District music festival and summer academy will discuss their experiences of fundraising and share their top tips for success. Renna Kellaway, the festival's co-founder, will talk through the history of LDSM's corporate and local sponsorship, and Ruth Jeffcoate will update us on LDSM's ongoing fundraising activities.

Refreshments

Tea, coffee, biscuits and juice will be provided.

Travel information

The nearest train station is Kendal, 11 minutes' walk from the Town Hall.

Please see local area map for driving and parking directions.

About the speakers

‘The role of the volunteer fundraiser’ will be delivered by Kirsty McDowell, trainer, professional cellist and amateur French horn player. After six years working for Making Music in North East England and two years with the Multiple Sclerosis Society, Kirsty now runs her own business, Fish Quay Consulting. Here she specialises in providing affordable advice, training, and project / development support to community groups and charities (large and small) around the UK.

Lake District Summer Music runs a friends scheme for patrons and has received funds through grants and foundations as well as corporate sponsorship. The festival celebrates its 30th anniversary in 2014 and continues to fulfil a major role in the provision of music regionally.