Arts Charities

Our aim every year is to provide our school with extra funds to help them buy supplies that they might otherwise not be able to. We have raised money in the past to help with playground improvements, football kits and books.

The charity exists to provide live orchestral music to the community. We hold 3 or 4 symphony concerts each year. Soloists are often young people who live, or used to go to school, in our area. Adults & students play in the orchestra.

Promoting and educating of classical music through public concerts

Village hall which provides venue for film club, table tennis ,yoga,knit and natter group to regularly meet. Also a venue for both Wayford and West Crewkerne parish council meetings. Throughout the year coffee mornings,bingo,jumble sales and quizzes are held as well as plays and music evenings.

Making concerts & taking partin charity concerts in our role as a choir

Hire of Hall to various Recreational Clubs including Bowls, Bingo, Art and Crafts, Memory, Alzheimers, Dance clubs and Exercise classes.Hire of Hall for private parties and other celebratory functions.Fundraising events including Bingo, fairs, plant sales.Community events: Village fair , National and Royal events

Provide regular opportunities for all singers to perform music from a wide choral repertoire. Provide and sustain a cultural asset for Aylesbury and the surrounding area. Foster children's knowledge and love of choral music by including them in concerts where appropriate. Secure financial support to enable the choir to expand it's repertoire and to improve its standards of performance.

Public performances of orchestral music. Workshop for string players available to members and non-members.

Weekly rehearsals and two annual concerts with professional (but usually student) soloists provide classical music playing opportunities for our members who include many pensioners and schoolchildren. Playing days are organised from time to time to allow 50-60 local younger and inexperienced schoolchildren to experience orchestral playing.

Providing funds for educational tools, books and equipment for school pupils. Donations made to local charities.

We rehearse during term-time to perform two or three concerts annually. In addition, some members rehearse to sing in a Christmas Carol Concert. Occasionally choir members are invited to sing at weddings or funerals, and also at a National Trust property or local hotel at Christmas time.

Bakewell Choral Society was formed to enable local people to come together to sing for pleasure. The choir is open to all who wish to sing. The Society puts on concerts each year featuring a variety of music. To enable people to attend our concerts we provide a free-to-user transport facility and this is provided by the Society using a local community bus service.

The Nailsworth festival is an annual community festival which brings major performers to the area as well as providing a platform for local talent. The festival seeks to involve the local community in both the annual festival and through year round support for local arts groups and events.

Specific purposes prioritise support for young individuals with musical talent encountering social or financial hardship.

Village Hall. Situated in a rural area and offers a central point for the residents of that area. Offers social events; across the range of age groups e.g. Brownies and Rainbows to the Over Sixties club; interests, balllroom dancing, quilting; resouces, houses the mobile post office. Operates as a venue to raise funds for services and provision in the village.We now offer post office services

Choral society holds regular practices and performs concerts three times a year.

Weekly Scouts, Art group, Yoga, Shortmat bowls, Table Tennis, Monthly Parish Council meetings, Films,Jazz Nights twice per year.Snooker table always available and hall is used by locals for parties, table sales, training days, public lectures, Christmas Market and other church functions,concerts.

The band welcomes musicians of all ages and abilities. Funds are raised from public performances/concerts and via donations to cover overheads. It also supports local charities and organisations in their fund-raising activities by playing free of charge eg RNLI, British Legion, school events, etc.

Denmead Brass are a community brass band based in Denmead. We perform locally at concerts, competitions, garden parties and charity events. We have a thriving training band led and assisted by current band members.

The objectives of the charity are to promote, maintain, foster and advance in the county of Norfolk and parts of Suffolk the training of dancers and choreographers, and dance in all aspects, by providing workshops, summer schools and residencies.

Please note NO DIRECT APPLICATIONS for funds are considered. The trust awards scholarships to students training in the performing arts with exceptional talent but insufficient financial means on the recommendation of the establishments with which the trust has an arrangement, namely The Royal College of Music, Purcell School, London Studio Centre and Central Ballet School of Ballet & RADA.

Choral Society based in Chelmsford drawing members from mid Essex performing three concerts a year of music from the classical choir repertoire, of which two are normally performed in Chelmsford Cathedral

The Highbridge Festival of the Arts exists as a not for profit organisation. We offer local people of any age, gender, ethic group, able bodied or disabled, the opportunity to give a public performance of the performing arts. i.e. Dance, Speech and Drama and Music Vocal or Instrumental.

The Charity advances the education of the public and furthers the development of public appreciation of music through the promotion of the art of the music of the late Serge Prokofiev.

physical and mental training and recreationand social moral and intellectual development through the medium of reading recreation rooms library lecture classes and entertainment or otherwise as may be found expedient