Bristol Music Trust Annual Report 2016-17

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Annual Review 2016/2017

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This is a place where everyone can be moved and inspired by music. A place to create.

A place to be free. We bring the most vibrant music from across the globe to our stage.

We help thousands of young people to make music every week. Our vision is confident, our plans are ambitious and our aim is simple – to connect a city through music.

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Welcome to Bristol’s home of live music

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“We are full of excitement as we enter the coming year, which will be a watershed moment in the history of Colston Hall�

An unforgettable year and an inspiring future It is a pleasure to report that Bristol Music Trust has had another excellent year of wonderful music, increasing audiences, achievements in education together with income generation.

We are full of excitement as we enter the coming year, which will be a watershed moment in the history of Colston Hall. Not only will our ambitious redevelopment begin in 2018 but we shall also be celebrating the 150th anniversary of the Hall later this year.

We are immensely grateful for the support of Bristol City Council, Arts Council England, Heritage Lottery Fund and of course the many individuals and organisations who have given generously to support both our education work and music promotions.

Finally, a huge thank you to Louise Mitchell, our Chief Executive and every member of the Bristol Music Trust Team for their dedication in bringing to reality a vision first put forward some six years ago when the Trust was established. Without each and every member of staff none of this would be possible.

Henry Kenyon June 2017

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Building a unique musical vision for Bristol Colston Hall is at the beating heart of music and culture in Bristol. Over the 150 years since the historic Main Hall and foyer were built, the Hall has reflected and shaped the musical heritage of the city and its inhabitants.

Our continued National Portfolio Status with Arts Council England has again enabled us to present an exciting and innovative programme of music, education and audience development initiatives. Highlights for me have included our exceptional programme of international classical music, our collaboration with The British Paraorchestra and Extraordinary Bodies, and wonderful festivals like Hoo Ha! and the Bristol Americana weekend.

The transformative work of our education arm, Bristol Plays Music, remains central to our work.

By supporting young people’s music making we are creating the musicians and audiences of the future. Our thriving children’s concerts, which I have greatly enjoyed this year, are a testament to the power of music to improve and change lives.

This year has been a pivotal time in the continuing life of the Hall.

Through the hard work of the team at Bristol Music Trust and the support from Bristol City Council, we finally have the go-ahead to close the Hall in 2018 for our ambitious transformation project. When we reopen in 2020, we will have a world-class concert hall that will rank among the best in the UK. So far, over £30 million has been raised, thanks to the financial support of Bristol City Council, HM Treasury, Arts Council England, the Heritage Lottery Fund and generous individual donors. However, we still need help to achieve our ambitious plans which will turn our iconic building into something that we can all be proud of as a city, region and nation. We have robust fundraising plans in place and will be talking to trusts and foundations, corporate businesses and the wider public, who we hope will join us in helping to build this wonderful venue for Bristol.

Here’s to the next 150 years.

Louise Mitchell Chief Executive, Bristol Music Trust

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8,500 children playing, singing and learning every week

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“A totally absorbing evening, joyous” The British Paraorchestra & Extraordinary Bodies, June 2016 We will create unity through the brilliance of live music by: • Developing a strong, confident, creative and artistically vibrant musical presence, with a reputation for creative excellence and diversity • Supporting young people’s music making • Continuing to build creative partnerships, working within teams, with local, national and international artists and organisations, to inspire and energise our music and educational programmes • Developing and sustaining an organisational culture that is creative, flexible, collaborative and professional • Providing opportunities and inspiration for audiences and participants from all backgrounds with a transformed building that provides a welcoming, lively music centre for the city

“A really interactive experience – my whole family had a great time” Breakin’ Convention, May 2016

In consultation with stakeholders and community groups, we will review the Colston Hall name and find a solution that better reflects the Trust’s commitment to inclusion, equality and diversity.

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We will continue to build creative partnerships with local, national and international artists and organisations.

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Main Hall Last year, we welcomed some of the biggest names in pop, rock, jazz and world music to our main stage James McVinnie; contemporary dance show Breakin’ Convention; a performance by Tindersticks (pictured) with accompanying films; a screening of Paul Thomas Anderson’s There Will Be Blood with live soundtrack by the London Contemporary Orchestra; and a David Bowie evening with performances of Philip Glass’s symphonic interpretations of Heroes and Low.

We curated a vibrant programme of our own events and co-promotions.

These shows were vital to our artistic vision and many were unique to Bristol. Highlights included The Secret Life of Organs with The Necks and

Highlights of our International Classical Season included an evening with the Moscow State Symphony Orchestra and a sold-out performance of Holst’s The Planets by the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, with accompanying

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footage from the NASA archives.

We also welcomed the return of critically acclaimed pianist Sunwook Kim, playing with the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra. Our evening with the St Petersburg Philharmonic Orchestra sold more tickets than any other classical concert since the Bristol Music Trust was formed.

As always, our Main Stage hosted some of the biggest names in comedy, including Sarah Millican, Catherine Tate, Reeves & Mortimer, Ricky Gervais, Henning Wehn and Romesh Ranganathan. During the summer, our week-long production of the Three Little Pigs delighted families of all ages.

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Laura Marling, Gregory Porter, the last tour of Bellowhead, Explosions In The Sky, Father John Misty, Chris Cornell, Brian Wilson, Burt Bacharach, Bonnie Raitt, Nashville, Joe Bonamassa, KT Tunstall, Jools Holland, Cinematic Orchestra, Regina Spektor, Beth Hart, Human League, Deacon Blue, Seth Lakeman, Travis, De La Soul, LeAnne Rimes and Grandaddy all graced the main stage in 2016/2017.

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The Lantern Last year’s diverse programme included Damien Jurado, Ought, Criolo, Julia Biel, Three Trapped Tigers, ONRA, Teddy Thompson, Cate Le Bon, Black Lips, Slow Club, Moon Hooch, Matmos, Frank Fairfield and Alisdair Roberts, Mbongwana Star, Darius Brubeck Quartet, Sona Jobarteh, The Jayhawks, Jesu and Sun Kil Moon, Head Hunters, Karen Matheson, Stars of the Lid, Boiler Room, Yussef Kamaal, Bad Plus, Kristin Hersh, Binker and Moses, Jon Boden, Lanterns on the Lake, Mutual Benefit, Glen Matlock, Nomade Orquestra, Cat’s Eyes, Robert Glasper, Eliza Carthy and The Wayward Band, Hurray for the Riff Raff, Chatham County Line, Neil Cowley Trio, Lack of Afro, Daniel Lanois, Bill Laurance Group, David Rodigan, Amp Fiddler, Awesome Tapes from Africa

(pictured) and Ibibio Sound Machine.

Our series of classical lunchtime concerts continued this year, with performances from rising stars of the Royal Academy of Music and Young Classical Artist Trust. Comedy in The Lantern included Eddie Izzard, Sara Pascoe, James Acaster, Paul Foot, Jo Caulfield, Sofie Hagen, Jonathan Pie, The Noise Next Door, Craig Campbell and Gary Delaney. We also worked in partnership with Bristol Old Vic to host the young person’s Christmas show Little Tim throughout December and early January.

Audiences enjoyed free live music in our foyer throughout the year.

Among more established names, the foyer performances featured upand-coming local artists and young musicians.

“An excellent evening and full credit to Colston Hall for bringing such a talented duo of virtuoso performers to The Lantern” Martin Harley & Daniel Kimbro, 22 March 2017 “Best thing I’ve seen in I don’t know how long” Ibibio Sound Machine, 31 March 2017

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Located in the oldest part of the building, The Lantern offers world, folk, jazz, acoustic and new classical music in a quirky and intimate space.

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A year in figures How many bulbs does it take to light up Colston Hall?

We crunch the numbers from the past 12 months‌

800

535

270k

performances took place

audience members came to our shows

light bulbs were replaced around the building

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9,000

288

waste to landfill

metres of gaffer tape kept everything in place

bottles of liquid soap kept hands clean

588k

604.8

3,960

hand towels dried damp mitts

kilometres of toilet paper were flushed

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metres of electrical tape kept visitors safe

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In May 2016, Bristol New Music Festival took place across Colston Hall, St George’s Bristol and The Cube Cinema. The festival, which offered a test-space for established and emerging artists, featured the Max Richter Ensemble, Kronos Quartet and a new installation piece in our historic cellars. Created by renowned artists and film-makers Iain Forsyth and Jane Pollard, Requiem for 114 Radios used the recorded voices of Jarvis Cocker, Beth Orton, Matt Berninger and others, and went on to Somerset House, London.

On BBC Music Day 2016, we presented the Fast Forward Festival. This day-long event included music production workshops, Shaun the Sheep’s Vegetable Orchestra and UWE’s Music Tech final show. To close the festival, The British Paraorchestra performed alongside circus performance troupe Extraordinary Bodies.

Our second Bristol Americana Weekend was hosted at Colston Hall and St George’s, and featured performances from Lucinda Williams, Mary Chapin Carpenter, Frazey Ford, The Hillbenders, Howe Gelb, The White Buffalo, Applewood Road and Lisa Mann.

The children’s music weekend, Hoo Ha! Festival, returned in August 2016 and was bigger and better than ever.

Highlights included BBC presenter Andy Day and his hilarious Dinosaur Raps (pictured), Bump Roller Disco, Going On A Bear Hunt live show and pop-up performances from arts/ theatre group Bakehouse.

We partnered with Simple Things festival in October to deliver a typically adventurous line-up in the Main Hall, The Lantern, foyer and roof terrace.

The day, which is a collaboration between Bristol promoters, featured performances from Warpaint, Death Grips, Steve Mason, Kanda Bongo Man, Nina Kravitz, Ben UFO, Rival Consoles and many more.

We are proud to work with festival producers to present the Bristol International Jazz & Blues Festival, which was one of the most successful venue festivals in the UK this year.

Featuring knockout performances from Macy Gray, Quantic and Alice Russell, Mud Morganfield, Jason Rebello, Dinosaur, Andy Sheppard and Pee Wee Ellis, this year’s festival was a journey through the decades – from the birth of jazz to the current day.

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“One of the best gigs I have seen in Bristol. You should all be so proud of your city!”

Lucinda Williams & The Pierce Brothers, 15 July 2016, part of Bristol Americana Weekend “The best kids’ theatre experience we’ve ever had!”

Wild Things, 17 July 2016, part of Hoo-Ha! Festival

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Festivals

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“Every Bristol special school for children with profound and multiple learning difficulties, or who are physically disabled, has a school orchestra”

Schools & children 8,500

30,000

children playing, singing and learning every week

children and young people reached last year

20,000 20,335 children got involved in Listen-Create-Perform

hours of music tuition took place in schools and communities image: Graham Fowlie

Despite the uncertain future of music in Britain’s schools, Bristol Plays Music continues to enable music education in 91% of schools across Bristol. Last year, tuition was provided to over 4,600 children each week. Through partner programmes and other music education activities, such as the choirs and ensembles at music centres, Bristol Plays Music reached a further 3,900 children every week last year. By the end of the 2016-2017 academic year, 20,335 hours of charged, subsidised and free music tuition were delivered in schools and to their communities.

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Bristol Plays Music supports music teachers in the city by developing their skills and helping them to engage with more young musicians. Bristol’s Music Curriculum is a free resource, created and used by Bristol music teachers. It has been downloaded more than 200 times and is the most widely used resource in Bristol schools. Bristol Plays Music also offers a continuing professional development (CPD) programme, which was attended by 170 teachers from 140 schools in the past year.

The Listen-Create-Perform programme of concerts and events at Colston Hall provided participatory music and dance opportunities to over 20,000 children across the greater Bristol area. This included Bristol Schools’ Music Society Summer Concert,

where 1,386 pupils from 38 schools performed over three nights on Colston Hall’s Main Stage.

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The year also saw Colston Hall’s Young Companies in Residence programme, consisting of the Bristol Youth Orchestra and the Bristol Youth Choir, go from strength to strength. Orchestral highlights included masterclasses with the London Symphony Orchestra, Guildhall School and Really Classical. The 180-strong Bristol Youth Choir performed at BBC Proms, BBC Music Day live on BBC Radio 3’s In Tune, on BBC Songs of Praise and on BBC Breakfast.

downloads of Bristol’s Music Curriculum

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2016/17 The team’s work gained national recognition and received two prestigious awards: the Music Education Council Major Award, which recognises the best Music Education Hub, and the Music Teacher Awards for Excellence.

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Inclusion & opportunity Colston Hall has become a regional hub for inclusive artists and, last year, we took big steps to becoming a National Centre for Inclusive Excellence

The British Paraorchestra, led by Charles Hazelwood, is the world’s first professional ensemble for disabled musicians. Together we staged a unique performance on the Main Stage with dance company Extraordinary Bodies. We have also developed our relationship with OpenUp Music – a charity that empowers young disabled musicians to build inclusive youth orchestras. OpenUp has offices at the Hall and continues to perform around the building.

As part of its £48.8 million transformation, Colston Hall will become home to the nation’s first Centre for Inclusive Excellence for young musicians with Special Education Needs and Disabilities (SEND). The facility, which will include state-of-the-art labs, studios and technology, could benefit 2,500 SEND musicians across the country and set a new national benchmark for music accessibility. The project is backed by a wide range of music and disability rights organisations and MPs. Plans for the centre were unveiled at the House of Commons in March 2016. In support of the project, 12-year-old musician Ashleigh Turner gave a moving piano performance.

Ashleigh, who is blind, performs in Bristol and beyond with the South West Open Youth Orchestra. The centre will provide the expertise, facilities and resources for Ashleigh and others with SEND to fulfil their potential.

Bristol Plays Music supports and develops music-making opportunities for the region’s most vulnerable young people. The flagship programme, A New Ambition for Inclusive Excellence, delivered 237 music sessions to 82 children and young people with SEND and to a further 20 young people in care. The programme has worked with 27 partners, including three other music education hubs in the South West and a growing network of partners across the country.

Inclusive music-making sessions are now a regular fixture in the Colston Hall foyer building. Bristol Music Trust’s annual Fast Forward Festival saw the only disabled-led regional youth orchestra (the South West Open Youth Orchestra) performing live on Radio 3’s In Tune programme, which was broadcast to millions of people.

2016-2017 saw the continuation of The Hope Creative – a music project for children and young people in care, in partnership with The Hope Virtual School. The associated development programme, The Inclusive Practitioner, has delivered 25 individual CPD activities and 864 hours of mentoring to 48 music education professionals.

Monthly creative sessions for children in care welcomed more participants than ever before.

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“With an ever-growing and diverse audience, Colston Hall is central to the cultural landscape of Bristol and the South West. Our ambitious programme of live music, comedy and performance has established Colston Hall’s national reputation for excellence and innovation. Between 2016 and 2017, we presented 535 live performances to over 270,000 audience members and generated £6.5 million in ticket sales”

Music makers of the future Bristol Plays Music is committed to giving more young people the encouragement, experience and opportunities they need to pursue a career in the music industry.

Multi-Track, which launched in 2016, is part of Bristol Music Trust’s talent development programme, and provides opportunities for those involved in the city’s underground music scene. The project, which is run by Bristol Plays Music and Urban Development, and funded by Arts Council England, PRS Foundation and Help Musicians UK, connects tomorrow’s underground producers, engineers, performers and promoters with music professionals for nononsense advice, training and support.

The Frequencies events, which ran in partnership with Music for Youth, included music industry panel discussions and showcased young artists. The Musical Minds consultation explored the views of young people across Bristol with partner organisation Sound Connections, and Springboard Live gave young people experience

of producing a music event at Colston Hall.

Working in partnership with Stratford-based organisation Urban Development, the Urban Artist School – Summer Academy gave young musicians the opportunity to learn about recording and promoting music.

The music technology education programme, Beat Lab, reached more young people than ever before. Highlights included Touch, a six-hour music production course that involved 204 pupils in seven schools, and the Conductive Music workshops, which explored electronics, engineering and coding with 800 pupils. Beat Lab also partnered with Bristol Museum for a two-day songwriting project, inspired by items from the museum’s collection. The team also delivered CPD training to over 50 teachers, demonstrating easy ways to use music technology in classroom teaching.

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“Whether through singing, playing or composing, Bristol Plays Music exists to make sure every child and young person in Bristol has access to a high-quality music education and a platform for musical expression. Its aim is to make Bristol the UK’s centre of music making for young people”

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Young musicians of the future Alice Alice, 12, loved playing her flute every Saturday in the Concert Orchestra. Her playing improved, she made lots of new friends and her confidence grew. In 2016, due to her family’s financial situation, Alice was forced to leave the orchestra. In January 2017, Alice received the Young Companies in Residence bursary, which is made available with generous funding from The Quartet Community Foundation, and was able to rejoin the concert orchestra. Her mum has seen the difference that the orchestra has made to her life: “Like all of us, Alice sometimes doubts herself and to have people who are not her parents and are not paid to do so have this amount of faith in her is great.“

Ellen Despite only being 17, Ellen is a multi-instrumentalist with a lot on her plate. Alongside school and the orchestras, quintets, folk band and steel pan group she is involved with, Ellen performs at an Open Door Club for disabled adults, leads workshops at summer youth groups and plays for the residents of a local dementia care home.

Having played in a number of orchestras that don’t have disabled members, Ellen finds that playing with the South West Open Youth Orchestra is a refreshing and exciting experience. She says: “We don’t follow the music exactly. If someone plays their bit differently, everyone else reacts to that. It’s more spontaneous. I really like that.”

When Ellen met Bradley Warwick, a 24-year-old musician with cerebral palsy, she joined the South West Open Youth Orchestra in January 2017. It is the UK’s only disabledled regional youth orchestra and is delivered in partnership with The British Paraorchestra, Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra and Bristol Music Trust. She now counts her fellow musicians as friends and says that “everyone there is pretty inspirational”

Looking to the future, Ellen is hoping to continue her studies at a music conservatoire or university. Rather than setting her sights on stardom, however, Ellen thinks she may want to “be some sort of teacher”. She says: “I just want to make more people inspired to play music.”

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The next chapter for Bristol’s home of live music From June 2018 the Hall will close and a major transformation will begin. Our £48.8 million redevelopment project will deliver worldclass facilities, technologies and spaces, making Colston Hall one of the top venues in the country.

This transformation is vital to the future success of Colston Hall and the Bristol Music Trust. The redevelopment will mean more audiences, more opportunities to raise income and a more resilient future for the next 150 years.

Our redevelopment will give lots back too. Over the next 20 years, the transformation could help to generate £412.5 million for the UK economy, £12.7 million each year for Bristol and 274 jobs.

Last year, planning, advocacy and fundraising for the project made great strides forward. Our Thank You for the Music capital campaign raised over 60% of the £48.8 million goal, including a commitment of £10 million from Bristol City Council and £5 million from HM Treasury.

But we haven’t reached our target yet. Our fundraising campaign will continue this year, including applications to key trusts and foundations and the launch of our public Individual Giving campaign. With the help of the public and our partners, we can ensure an incredible future for music in Bristol.

What will the transformation achieve?

Main Hall: A radical remodelling, with improved staging, access, acoustics, and flexible seating.

Historic cellars: Transformed into a unique space for educational workshops, performing arts business enterprises and a cabaret-style performance area.

Accessibility: An entirely accessible venue and the first UK National Centre for Advanced Training for young people with SEND. Education: New spaces for lifelong learning and a technology lab that can serve 20,000 children.

Restoration: Returning the Hall’s historic core, the colonnade and the Colston Street frontage to its former glory.

Resilience: New areas of commercial income, including space for creative enterprises new venue hire options For more information on our redevelopment campaign and ways you can support it, please visit www.colstonhall.org/ transformation

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Financial review

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Bristol Music Trust’s total income in the last financial year was £7,625,404 with a total net increase in funds of £294,912.

£26

of all funds raised was spent on our charitable activities

on average was spent by every audience member during the year

During the year we received core funding of £1.03m from Bristol City Council, NPO funding from Arts Council England (£0.24m) and Music Education Hub funding from Arts Council England (£0.54m). Our funding is diverse and for every £1 of core funding from BCC we generated an additional £6.

Income £7.63m Educational programme

staff members worked for us during the year – 138 employees and 58 casual workers

Expenditure £7.33m BCC core funding

Costs of raising funds

ACE NPO funding Trading and other hires

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Colston Hall artistic programme

ACE Music Education Hub Fundraising and investments

Music hires and box office Resourcing charitable activities

Music hires and box office Colston Hall artistic programme

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BCC core funding: £1.03m ACE NPO funding: £0.24m ACE Music Education Hub: £0.54m Fundraising and investments: £0.63m Colston Hall artistic programme: £1.87m Music hires and box office: £1.46m Trading and other hires: £1.04m Educational programme: £0.81m

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Educational programme

Colston Hall artistic programme: £1.86m Music hires and box office: £0.41m Educational programme: £0.63m Resourcing charitable activities: £3.57m Costs of raising funds: £0.87m

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Thank you to our partners & supporters

Supporters: Principal Supporters Arts Council England Bristol City Council Heritage Lottery Fund Major Partners Renishaw PRS Foundation Help Musicians UK Sponsors ARUP Averys Brewin Dolphin CAPITA Corrigan Associates DAC Beachcroft Nisbets Empica Future Wealth Management Grant Thornton Hayes Parsons PUKKA Herbs Smith and Williamson Trusts Arts Council England D’Oyly Carte Charitable Trust Ernest Cook Trust National Foundation for Youth Music Paul Hamlyn Foundation Quartet Community Foundation The Austin and Hope Pilkington Trust In Kind Support The Gainsborough Bath Spa Bath Ales Bristol IT Company DAC Beachcroft Hotel du Vin Les Fleurs Gold Patrons Nisbet Charitable Trust Mary Prior CVO MBE and John Prior Silver Patrons Richard and Joanna Bacon Sue and Paul Carter S and Y Chapman Beth and Steve Evans Nigel and Lyn Harradine Ros and Cameron Kennedy Sonia Mills and Peter Rilett Steve Pain Sally Anne Watson Helen and Peter Wilde Richard and Annie Wynn-Jones

Bronze Patrons Helen Barnfield Neville Boundy Rob and Geraldine Davis Mavis and Eric Evans Mr R. C. L. Feneley Michael de Grey Tim Grice and Kamala Das Tina Hallett Mary Henderson Pascale and Henry Kenyon John N P Luckes Christopher and Mere Moorsom Dr Graham Pegg Bob Reeves Stephen and Sue Robertson Mr. A. Sadler Nicole Sherwood Robert and Barbara Todd Adrian Watkinson James Wetz Elizabeth and Paul Whitehouse

Head of Customer Service Christine Swain Finance and Commercial Director Marguerite Jenkin Communications and Special Projects Director Sarah Robertson Head of Programme Todd Wills Head of Development Rosa Corbishley Head of Development (maternity cover) Kate Rowland Head of Bristol Plays Music Phil Castang Bristol Music Consortium partner St George’s Bristol Artistic Partners Asian Arts Agency Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra Bristol Choral Society Bristol Ensemble Bristol Old Vic Bristol International Jazz and Blues Festival English Folk Dance and Song Society In Between Time IMG Artists Making Tracks Music Beyond Mainstream Royal Academy of Music Sadlers Wells Slapstick Festival University of Bristol YCAT

CHIME supporters Simon and Yvonne Chapman Beth and Steve Evans Nigel and Lyn Harradine Ros and Cameron Kennedy Mike Lee Sonia Mills and Peter Rilett Sally Anne Watson Helen and Peter Wilde Governance: Trustees Michele Balfe Marti Burgess Simon Chapman (Honorary Treasurer) Simon Cook Paul Fordham Henry Kenyon (Chair) Marie McCluskey Sir Brian McMaster Andrew Nisbet James Wetz

Live Music Now Music Education Council Music Mark National Foundation for Youth Music National Children’s Orchestra OpenUp Music Real Ideas Organisation (RiO) Rife Magazine Saffron Records Serious Sound Connections Soundsense The Ethnic Minority and Travellers Achievement Service (EMTAS) Tomorrows Warriors Trinity College London Trinity Community Arts UWE Watershed Welsh National Opera Bristol Music Trust is a member of Association of British Orchestras British Association of Concert Halls Creative Industries Federation International Society for Performing Arts UK Theatre Urban Development

The list above represents the partners with whom we were working at the end of the financial year in March 2017.

Education Partners Bristol Plays Music works with all schools in Bristol and all Music Education Hubs in the West of England Access to Music ACE CIC Basement Studio BBC Ten Pieces/BBC Music Day BIMM Bris Arts Bristol Cultural Education Partnership Bristol Harbour Festival Bristol Old Vic Bristol University Bristol Youth Links City of Bristol College Conductive Music Creative Youth Network DBS Drake Music Generator NE Hope Virtual School Knowle West Media Centre

Capital Fundraising Group Rosa Corbishley Marguerite Jenkin Dr Ros Kennedy Henry Kenyon Sonia Mills (Chair) Louise Mitchell Andrew Nisbet Paul Whitehouse Senior Management Team Chief Executive Louise Mitchell General Manager Nick Craney

Bristol Music Trust is a charity registered in England & Wales (no. 1140898). A non-profit-making company limited by guarantee. Registered in England no. 7531978. VAT no. 1082 48327.

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