We are delighted to announce that we have recently been awarded Covid-19 emergency funding from the East End Community Foundation, The Fore, and the John S Cohen Foundation. We are hugely grateful to these trusts and foundations for supporting us through this uncertain period.

It is with great regret that, due to coronavirus concerns and uncertainty, the Apollo team and trustees have decided to postpone all remaining workshops and concerts until next term. This has been a difficult decision but we feel it is necessary to protect both our musicians and their families, and the children, teachers and wider communities of our schools. At this stage it is our hope that all events next term will go ahead, but we will update the website with any changes. We will do everything in our power to ensure that every school is able to complete our programme, and intend all affected events to be postponed rather than cancelled.

We are delighted to welcome Madeline De Berrié, who is our new Fundraising Officer. Madeline has worked for music education and outreach organisations the Fosbrooks Folk Education Trust, Music First, and the Music in Secondary Schools Trust, and she is a founding member of Arts at the Intersection, a collaboration with Spirit of Peace and Unity Music. Madeline is a freelance singer and instrumentalist specialising in historical performance.Apollo Music Projects is hugely grateful to Hayley Pullen, our outgoing Fundraising Officer, for all her fantastic work over the years. We wish her all the best for the future.

Csenge Herman, our Charity Administrator has left AMP to pursue other avenues, and we want to thank her for her time working for us, and wish her good luck in the next phase of her career. We are pleased to announce that Dorothy Hoskins, our Schools Administrator, will be taking on the role of Charity Administrator as well.

Hayley Pullen, our fantastic Fundraising Officer is moving on to pursue other avenues, and we are recruiting for a Fundraising Manager to take our fundraising to the next level.We are looking for a Fundraising Manager who will expand AMP’s fundraising portfolio, developing a strategy to identify and research new sources of funding while continuing to build on the success of our existing fundraising model. At the moment the majority of our funding comes from Trusts and Foundations, with some significant individual donors.Working closely with the Chief Executive and the AMP admin team, the successful candidate will work to secure funding from a wide range of businesses, charities and foundations, and public sector organisations, also expanding our individual giving and developing corporate funding.The role requires someone with an entrepreneurial mindset and creativity to explore options and advise the CEO and trustees about strategic options, as well as design and implement a new approach.We are looking for a highly organised, enterprising and personable individual, passionate about the arts and about creating opportunities for children from a range of backgrounds to listen to and appreciate the magic of live music.Click here for Job description and full details of how to apply.

We are delighted to report that we have exceeded our target of raising £10,000 in the Big Give Christmas Challenge and with matched funding, we were able to raise £20,691. With Gift Aid and after the small admin fees, that makes a take home total of £22,298!Thank you to everyone, including the Friends of Apollo Music Projects, who donated and helped us reach our goal during this campaign - we couldn't have done it without you! We are also grateful to our Champion charity The Childhood Trust and to Pauline & Ian Howat, who generously pledged to match £10,000 worth of donations.Thank you for helping us bring the magic of live classical music into underprivileged schools!

With your help we have raised £7,461 and there is ONLY 24 HOURS left to raise the £2,539 we need to meet our goal of £10,000. Support us in the Big Give Christmas Challenge 2019 before 12 noon tomorrow (Tuesday 10th December) and your donation will be DOUBLED, making your gift have TWICE THE IMPACT! We’re nearly there and with your help, we can make it!

We are grateful to all our supporters who helped us raise £6,100 (over half of our match funding target) in the first half of The Big Give Christmas Challenge. Please keep spreading the word and help us raise the remaining £3,900 in online donations to reach our goal of £10,000 by 12pm, Tuesday 10th December. All donations will be matched giving us the chance to receive £20,000 in total if we meet our goal!

Thanks to the generosity of our supporters, we raised £1,715 on the first day of The Big Give Christmas Challenge. Please help us spread the word and help us raise the remaining £8,285 in online donations we need to reach our goal of £10,000 by 12pm, Tuesday 10th December. All donations will be matched giving us the chance to receive £20,000 in total if we meet our goal! 

Help us bring live music into schools by supporting Apollo Music Projects in the Big Give Christmas Challenge 2019!

We are thrilled that the Childhood Trust has chosen to support Apollo Music Projects in the Big Give Christmas Challenge 2019, our annual campaign to raise money through this matched-funding platform!

From midday on Tuesday 3rd December until midday Tuesday 10th December, all donations made to Apollo Music Projects will be matched by the Childhood Trust and Friends of Apollo Music Projects, Pauline & Ian Howat. We are aiming to raise £10,000 during this week-long campaign and if we reach our goal, we will receive £20,000 through matched funding.

This is our only major annual fundraising campaign and we hope you will consider donating during this time. Every donation (up to our goal amount) will be automatically doubled, making your gift have twice the impact!

Our campaign page will be live in the coming days and will be ready to accept donations on Tuesday 3rd December from midday. Share our message on social media and help us raise the funds we need to continue our important work in schools!

WELCOMING NEW TRUSTEES

We are delighted to welcome two new trustees, Rachel Brewster and Peter Ptashko. Rachel has worked in communications for over 20 years, the past 13 in the education sector, where she became acutely aware of the declining opportunities in the creative arts that are available to children nationally. A passionate believer in the value of a fully rounded education and the importance of music and the arts in developing children’s imagination and creativity, Rachel wants to spread the message about the work of Apollo Music Projects, to ensure that as many children as possible can experience the magic that AMP musicians bring into schools.

Peter is a social entrepreneur, funder and currently an independent entrepreneurship change management consultant working with a range of clients in both the Public and Private sectors, holding a series of leadership and Board-level positions across these two sectors (with a focus on the sectors of Education, the Arts and Music).

These are very exciting times for Apollo Music Projects as we expand our programme to reach more children each year. We look forward to working with our new trustees to take Apollo Music Projects on the next phase of this exciting journey.