Our new Encore Appeal focuses on the three main strands of our work: singing workshops to bring high quality music education to schools in deprived areas; our Memory Singers work to improve the lives of people living with dementia; and empowering composition and performance workshops for children with special educational needs. This work is more in demand than ever, and we need your help to deliver it.
Between 2023 to 2024 we will help more than 17,000 people most in need across Warwickshire, Coventry, Solihull and Worcestershire to discover their voice through the power of music.
Through our workshops in schools, we encourage young people to express themselves through music as part of a choir, building resilience and supporting mental health, cooperation and academic attainment. We have been helping children and young people with special educational needs to discover their voices by creating original compositions which express their ideas, interests and experiences. In partnership with The Alzheimer’s Society, Armonico Consort has developed the UK’s first ever choir which brings together professional musicians and those living with dementia. Using music at its most powerful, this brings extraordinary results, particularly when we use our core baroque repertoire, with doctors often prescribing it rather than medicine, as it is simply more effective.
THROUGH THE ENCORE APPEAL, WE WILL ADDRESS THESE SITUATIONS HEAD ON, REVERSING THE DECLINE AND TACKLING THE NEGLECT, PROVIDING FOR THOSE IN NEED.
The appeal is generously supported by Armonico Consort President Mr Roger Medwell MBE DL who will be giving 30p in the £1 for every £1 donated, up to the first £100,000 raised.
Primary school children
What we will do to address the need - Choir Creation in schools
- Re-establish and train choir leaders in 48 primary schools where teachers have left post covid, rebuilding singing cultures in schools still not singing post covid
- Get 15,000 young people singing regularly in choirs in their schools
Cost: £5,000 per choir creation project (set of three schools) = target of £80,000
Young people with Special Educational Needs
What we will do to address the need - Bespoke pantomime style project
- Establish an annual bespoke project created with the young people participating
- Support at least 500 beneficiaries by working with up to six schools in each area
Cost: £35,000 per project (four projects) = target of £140,000
People living with dementia
What we will do to address the need - Memory Singers choirs
- Establish four new Memory Singers choirs, replicating successful Warwick model
- Support at least 30 people living with dementia and their carers each week at their local Memory Singers (approx. 1,000 beneficiaries via rolling recruitment)
Cost: £22,000 annually per choir (five choirs) = target of £110,000
