The Big Give Christmas Challenge Success!






The Big Give Christmas Challenge match funding increased!
Great news! MATCH FUNDING INCREASED! Although we have come to the end of our original match funding, one of our Friends has agreed to match further donations up to £2,000. Please continue to spread the word and donate, and help us to raise even more this year. Thanks to generous support from The Childhood Trust and Friends of Apollo Music Projects, all donations made to our Big Give page have been matched so far, and the matching will now continue, That means if you choose to give during the campaign, your donation, and its impact, will be doubled. Thank you for all your support so far. It means so much to us and the children we work with. This has been an incredibly challenging year for fundraising, and we are particularly grateful for any support you are able to give this year.
The Big Give Christmas Challenge: 1-8 December
We are delighted to announce that we will be taking part in the The Big Give‘s Christmas Challenge again this year. Thanks to generous support from The Childhood Trust and Friends of Apollo Music Projects, all donations made to our Big Give page during Giving Week will be MATCHED! That means if you choose to give during the campaign, your donation, and its impact, will be doubled. The campaign begins at 12 noon on Tuesday 1 December, and runs for a week. Please save the date and keep your eyes peeled – we’ll be sharing the link to our Big Give page on 1 December! This has been an incredibly challenging year for fundraising, so we will be so grateful for any support you are able to give this year.
We are officially back in schools!
Our team and musicians are absolutely thrilled to be be returning to schools over the coming weeks, to deliver the remaining workshops of our 2019/20 programme live for all the children we are working with.
Today, the strings visited Year 6 at Tyssen Community Primary School, and played music by Beethoven, Haydn, Ravel and Piazzolla, which the children remembered amazingly well from previous workshops! They enjoyed discussing emotion, drama and storytelling in music.
Meanwhile, our woodwind players were with Year 6 at Tetherdown Primary School, introducing them to all kinds of woodwind instruments including a full quartet of saxophones! Tetherdown asked lots of brilliant questions and learnt about reeds, vibrations and sound waves, and recognised lots of famous film tunes.
We can’t wait to return to more of our schools over the next few weeks!