FMLC want to put on a series of live events that will serve as educational opportunities for students, a chance to build a library of digital educational content and entertainment for the local public
FMLC Live is a project to allow the charity to put on a series of live events in the local area throughout 2025 and beyond. These events will be an opportunity for music students of all ages to get first-hand experience in the organising, setting up and running of a live music event, as well as ask established experts questions they may have. By capturing these events on film and record, FMLC can build a digital repository of reference interviews, guides and how-to videos students can refer back to in the future to help deepen their learning or gain knowledge from events they were unable to attend. These events will also serve to provide access to live music to the local community in the form of free to access gigs and concerts, as the FMLC Live project will aim to fund the acts, allowing the events to be free access for those who simply want to hear the music! This way FMLC Live can serve as broad a section of the community as possible.
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Why it's a great idea:
The project will give exposure to ambitious music students to the real world of music production, allowing them access to aspects of the music economy almost impossible to reproduce in the classroom. It will offer hands on experience, networking and practical exposure to essential skills without requiring them to have the pre-existing investment required to gain access to expensive kit and event organisation. It will also raise the profile of live music in the local area without venues or musical acts having to foot the bill on a speculative endeavour. Acts will be guaranteed fair pay for their time and performance and venues can offer customers a free event, leaving more customer money for injection into the local economy through the purchase of merchandise, food and drink.
Steps to get it done:
FMCL Live would be a foundational event for the Charity, allowing it to purchase all the required equipment in order to successfully run amazing live shows that serve to both entertain and educate. The initial goal of 4 live events in 2025 is not the end, as the equipment can ideally be used as often as is practicable and the digital educational media created can be accessed again and again - the potential impact of this project is difficult to overstate.
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How will the money be spent?Target (inc. fees) £32,266
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VolunteerFree Music Lessons Charity is a movement started by three friends living in Oswaldtwistle.
Our initial conversations centred around the inability for schools, parents, community hubs and the general public to gain access to the ever growing cost of music tuition and performing arts activities. After school clubs had lost funding, community centres had closed and performance space was dwindling.
This was pre-pandemic and also before the cost of living crisis.
Our initial events combined with those additional barriers brought many other volunteers and supporters to our cause.
Our initial idea for bridging the gap caused by the aforementioned issues, was to simply raise money through music and performing arts events. This was something that our initial team had experience of.
Joe Bamford, the chair of our CIO charity, is a music teacher with many years of experience in both the classroom and performance.
Joanna Hunt, the treasurer, is also a musician and performer, with a passion for organising artistic cultural experiences to a professional standard.
Matt Yates, the secretary, has lots of connections and experience within the performing arts network of east lancashire, as well as a flair for design and other necessary skills essential for our fundraising ideas.
Since we started this project, our team of trustees and volunteers has grown into double figures.
This is a result of the cause resonating with our community, a group effort to support people by replacing something that had less barriers in a previous era. Music lessons before 2010 where altogether more accessible for all. Performance space was readily available.
Free Music Lessons Charity has so far raised over £10,000 for music and performing arts activities in Oswaldtwistle since 2022.
This money has been spent on the needs of the schools, and when talking to our community, especially leaders in education institutions, our choice to use their expertise and reasoning for deciding where they need the additional funding helps maximise the difference it makes. Our funding has reached well over 1000 learners already.
Project Owner: Joe Bamford The Project Owner takes legal responsibility for receiving and spending the funds raised and ensuring the project is delivered.
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