2012/13 ANNUAL REPORT"Access to Music-Making for all Children and Young People in Camden"

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2012/13 Annual Report (Reporting on Financial Year 01 April 2012 – 31 March 2013)

Chair’s Report

The year witnessed a step change in CMT’s effectiveness, building on firm foundations laid in previous years, attracting a new high calibre Board, launching its own bursary programmes and quadrupling the amount of funds it has raised. All the funds raised in 2012/13 will be spent directly on music projects for disadvantaged young people in 2013/14. We have virtually no overheads so can pass on every pound.

CMT exists to ensure that musical opportunities at every level are available to all children and young people in Camden, regardless of their financial circumstances. With 15,000 children in Camden living below the poverty line (40% of the total of 37,500 children living in the borough), this is a real issue which CMT is committed to addressing. We

are a third sector, registered charity which has grown rapidly in the past 18 months in response to deep changes in music education, nationally and regionally. Our growth reflects the willingness of our community to work together to protect the high quality of music opportunities which have been available to young people.

The Friends of Camden Music Service was conceived in 2001 and registered as a charity, Camden Music Trust (CMT), in September 2008 to support the work of the Camden Music Service. CMT was started by a group of friends who cared about the provision of music for children in the borough. Their vision was of a charity that could help all children in Camden benefit from music as a formative experience, regardless of parents’ ability to pay.

The Trustees are very grateful to the Friends of Camden Music and volunteers for their efforts in helping to raise £20,336 from individual donations during the year. A significant amount of thiswas donated through monthly contributions and large donations from two very generous donors. This added to the £6,509 raised in previous years. This money has been used as matchingfunding in our applications to grant giving trusts and foundations and has helped lever many times more income. We are particularly indebted to our first Chair, Matthew Daines, for his galvanising efforts and personal generosity. In 2012/13 we gratefully received our first ever grant from the Goldsmiths Company Charity (£3,000). This marked thestart of an energetic campaign to raise funds over the next four years and beyond, aided by our high profile Patron, David Walliams, to whom we owe a great debt.

Since our first grant from the Goldsmiths’ Company Charity in 2012/13, our work has been supported by a further nine prestigious foundations/charities/trusts. We are hugely grateful to all the organisations and individuals who have so generously contributed to our programmes. Their belief in CMT's work gives us great encouragement.

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Our Strategic Role

With the creation of a national network of music hubs which will deliver the key elements of the Department for Education (DfE) and the Department of Culture, Media and Sports’ (DCMS) National plan for Music Education (published November 2011), Camden Music Trust (CMT) and Camden Music Service have taken on new responsibilities in coordinating the local music framework and bringing together schools and professional music organisations.

The National Plan for Music Education states: “Central to our proposals is the creation of new music education hubs to take forward the work of local authority music services from September 2012. More children will experience a combination of classroom teaching, instrumental and vocal tuition, opportunities to play in ensembles and the chance to learn from professional musicians. Hubs will provide opportunities that reach beyond school boundaries and draw-in the expertise of a range of education and arts partners.”

CMT has begun a new phase of its existence and has two key roles in delivering public benefit:

1) To develop a mix of funding which will sustain and develop the work of Camden Music Hub inproviding high quality music making opportunities for disabled and disadvantaged children and young people.

2) As a core member of Camden Music Hub, to become a regional strategic charity, providing a focalpoint for a range of practical and cost effective partnerships which depend on the support of individual and corporate donors, parents, music organisations and charitable trusts and foundations. We aim to improve the quality and quantity of musical opportunity available to disadvantaged / disabled young people locally and make a contribution to expanding national provision. We now have the opportunity to work with Music Hubs and special schools in Barnet, Haringey, Brent, Enfield, Harrow, Ealing and Hillingdon on a regional initiative.

Without the support of individual and corporate donors, parents, music organisations, charitable trusts and foundations, the hugely valued work which has been pioneered in Camden in offering high quality music opportunities to disadvantaged and disabled young people will be unsustainable.

Alan Seymour

Chair of Camden Music Trust (On behalf of the Trustees) October 2013

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Trustees Report

Registered Charity Address

34 Hanover Steps, St. Georges Fields, London, W2 2YG: Registered Charity No: 1126046 Tel: 0207 258 1844 Email: Chair@camdenmusictrust.org Website: http://camdenmusictrust.org

Details of active Trustees Trustee Professional skills and experienceAlan Seymour (Chair) Retired headteacher, school strong musicMatthew Daines Director, Development, University California (UCLA)Emily Stubbs Head, Development, English National OperaKate Frood Head Teacher, Eleanor Palmer SchoolIsobel Berwick Commissioning Arts editor, Financial Times Katie Roden Consultant, Branding, ePublishing and social media strategy.Louise Shackelton Professional violinist, London Symphony OrchestraGina Pearce Charity Treasurer Susy Penney Retired School Administrator, Charity SecretaryDana Haimoff Venture Capital & Private Equity Funds Management

Charity structure and details of how it is managed, including methods for recruiting trustees

CMT currently has ten Trustees, recruited through invitation. It has no paid staff but is assisted by 30 volunteers. It meets 10 times per year and its work is aided by working groups focusing on specific projects.

Camden Music Trust’s Management, policy and decision making processes adhere to the Charity Commission’s CC10 guidance, “The Hall Marks of an Effective Charity”. Its programmes are managed and operated by the Head and Deputy Head of Camden Music Service under a service level agreement with Camden Music Trust. Camden Music Service is part of the London Borough of Camden and manages the Camden Music Hub which provides high quality music opportunities for over 5,000 young people each year with funding from local and central government. Despite funding cuts, its future is assured for the foreseeable long-term future.

Activities and objectives

Camden’s young musicians give immense pleasure through the high standard of their performances across the whole range of musical styles. We are proud of our bi-annual event at London’s Royal Albert Hall in which 2,000 children between the ages of 4 and 18 sing and play instruments to a quite extraordinarily high standard. They are accompanied by 300 young orchestral players, drummers and more. This event alone speaks to the incredible spirit of music education in Camden. Even more important is the benefit for the young people themselves - in the development of individual skills, the rewards of working in ensembles, and above all in their self-confidence and enriched perception of the world.

Our purpose is to promote, improve, develop and advance education in and the appreciation of music in all its aspects for children and young people resident in or educated within the London Borough of Camden with a particular view to assisting those in financial hardship.

Our firm belief is that in this way we will enable young people to develop precious talent, for their own benefit and that of the community.

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Camden offers more opportunities now for young musicians than ever before - but these come at a cost which in many cases can pose real problems. It is a tragedy if a young person is denied the chance to develop a promising talent because he or she cannot afford to have regular lessons, to be a member of a performing group, to take up a further or higher education place or to buy a decent instrument.

As a result of a change in the way music services are funded by national government, the new grant allocation has reduced the national funding available to Camden Music service by almost 60% by 2014, which presents an enormous challenge to Camden Music Trust.

In planning our activities, the Trust follows the Charity Commission's guidance on public benefit. We are raising funds for:

Bursaries to cover the costs of music lessons for highly talented children living below thepoverty line and children living with disabilities - £50,000

Events that inspire children and encourage them to aim really high such as the CamdenMusic Festival at the Royal Albert Hall - £50,000

Running costs of 2 Saturday music centres, 35 youth ensembles (orchestras, choirs and jazzgroup) and holiday courses - £50,000

Salaries of specialist music staff who work with disadvantaged children - £50,000

Costs of an annual cross-borough festival to celebrate music making by disabled youngpeople - £50,000

Achievements and performance

What steps have been taken by CMT since June 2012?

1. The Board of Trustees has been enlarged and significantly strengthened so that it is well placedto face the challenges ahead. It is chaired by a retired headteacher of a Camden school withoutstanding music provision that serves one of the Borough’s least advantaged areas. Othertrustees bring a comprehensive range of experience and skills: fundraising, accountancy,professional music, journalism, administration, web site design, parents of children using CMS.

2. David Walliams agreed to be the Trust’s first patron. A group is working with him to ensure thathis contributions are used to maximum effect in our fundraising events.

3. Another group is working to maximise the impact of the Camden Schools Music Festival at theRoyal Albert Hall on 17 March 2014 at which 2,500 young people will perform. .

4. Two consultant fundraisers are now in post (paid for by an anonymous donation at no cost tothe Trust). The consultants have helped raised over £95,000 in their first 12 months from trusts,foundations and individuals.

5. Close links have been established with the Friends of Camden Music, an informal and energeticgroup of parents whose children use CMS. The Friends are focusing on achieving a significantincrease in gift aid contributions.

6. CMT’s first raffle of Britain’s Got Talent tickets donated by David Walliams raised £20,000 in May2013.

7. CMT became Sainsbury's Camden new chosen local charity.

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Major Projects for 2013/15

Bursary Programmes

Four year CMT bursaries have been awarded to 9 highly musical children from disadvantaged backgrounds and 2 talented disabled children have been awarded Royal Albert Hall bursaries to receive singing or instrumental tuition enabling them to perform at the Royal Albert Hall as part of the Camden Schools Music Festival in 2014.

The CMT bursaries will give talented children who come from disadvantaged homes the four forms of support they need for the four years between the end of the Wider Opportunities scheme at 9 years old and being able start the GCSE Music course at 13 - when free instrumental lessons are available again at school. The bursary covers:

1) Fees for instrumental lessons.2) Structured opportunities to play in music groups which have a vital social role.3) Mentoring by experienced, qualified staff.4) Being able to use the support structures after the bursary ends to age 18.

Each child is assigned a mentor, who contacts the parents and arranges free lessons and instrument hire.

Every child in receipt of a bursary will attend our Saturday music centre and a holiday music activity, fully funded by the bursary. This will provide the vitally important, social music-making, which will motivate them as they move through secondary school.

Students have already started to make use of their bursaries, and several have already had their first experience of playing in an orchestra at the holiday music courses or the Saturday Music Centre. One student gave her first public concert recently, and her school music co-ordinator wrote “I had a very proud child come to speak to me this morning about the fantastic concert she had performed in at Camden School on Saturday. She was absolutely beaming and so keen to tell us all about it. Thanks for awarding her the bursary - it's certainly been worthwhile so far, and great to see her being so enthusiastic about something she can do!”

The Trust is very grateful to John Lyon’s Charity for fully funding four of the bursaries yearsyears.

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Music is Special Fair

CMT is planning an annual three day Fair celebrating music by and for disabled young people from a new cluster of 8 London boroughs. This is the first Fair of disability and music to be held in London for more than 23 years.

Reserves PolicyCMT aims to maintain reserves of £10,000-£15,000 to provide for unforeseen opportunities and enable the Trust to provide matching funding for new applications to trusts and foundations.

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QUOTES FROM SUPPORTERS

“Great musicians all have one thing in common - they discovered their love of music during childhood. The work that Camden Music Service does to ensure that all children in Camden have access to music lessons, ensembles, instruments and courses is second to none. The range of activity offered and the standard of the teaching means that year after year, Camden produces fantastic musicians who go on to enrich the culture of

this country. They need and deserve our whole-hearted support.” Sir Mark Elder, CBE - Music Director of the Hallé Orchestra

“The Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment (OAE) is delighted to have an ongoing partnership with Camden Music Service. Working together for over ten years the two organisations have a similar ethos – that of inspiring young people in music making of the highest quality at whatever level they are. I believe the strength of an excellent arts organisation teaming up with a professional orchestra can give life changing opportunities to all those involved. OAE players relish working with Camden students and staff alike and we look forward to many more years of fantastic music making with aspiring young musicians!” Cherry Forbes - Education Director, Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment

Camden Music Service has played a pivotal part in my career as a musician/producer/educator. The help, knowledge and support they gave me was unconditional and I truly believe that their service is world class. Mark Crown BMus(Hons) www.myspace.com/trumpetmark www.rhythmica.posterous.com

‘This is a completely uplifting endeavour in which thousands of children in a challenging inner city London Borough are given the chance to explore and develop the music that is within them. I confess to bias in this matter – I enjoy the honour of compering the wondrous bi-annual event at London’s Albert hall in which 2000 children between the ages of 4 and 18 sing to a quite extraordinarily high standard. They are accompanied by 300 young orchestral players, drummers and more. This event alone speaks to the incredible spirit of music education in Camden. I am more than proud to support Camden Music Trust in nurturing, sustaining, and growing music in schools in Camden.’ Jon Snow - Newscaster, Channel 4 News - Jon Snow Blogs At www.Channel4.Com/Snowblog