Registered Charity No. 529849

Sponsorship is really import to the Friends and to the Orchestras so please check out our sponsors because without them we wouldn't be able to do so many of the things that mean so much to the Youth Orchestras and Ensembles.

Just so you can see what we’ve been doing with this support, in the past few years, funds raised through sponsorship, donations and subscriptions have enabled the ‘Friends’ to do the following to help our various groups:

Purchases

· Five new half-size cello and sheet music for the String Training Orchestra;

· Drum seating, trumpet and trombone mutes, saxophone stand;

· 24 new choir folders;

· A multi-purpose music bag for all players in all orchestras and ensembles;

· Five new sheet music arrangements for the Intermediate Wind Band;

· Drum kit for the String Training Orchestra and Intermediate String Ensemble.

 

Foreign Tours

· 2011: subsidy of £10,000 for the Senior Wind Band and Jazz Orchestra to Croatia;

· 2010: subsidy of £10,000 for the Youth Orchestra tour to Northern Italy;

· 2009: subsidy of £9,700 for the Senior Wind Band and Jazz Orchestra to France and Belgium;

· 2008: subsidy of £9,240 for the Youth Orchestra tour to Catalonia;

· 2007: subsidy of £9,500 for the Senior Wind Band and Jazz Orchestra to Switzerland;

· 2006: subsidy of £9,500 for the Youth Orchestra tour to Poland;

· 2005: subsidy of £6,500 for the Senior Wind Band tour to Belgium;

· 2004: subsidy of £11,250 for the Youth Orchestra tour to Portugal.

 

 

Other Subsidies

· Sponsorship of Master Class Workshops at the Beverley Chamber Music Festival (£500 in 2007, 2008, 2009, and 2010);

· Coach travel to concert venues;

· Outdoor advertising stands for use on tours and at concerts;

· £500 to repair percussion and timpani;

· Sponsor Guest conductors;

· Sponsor a String Training Course (£500 in 2007, £600 in 2009);

· Helped a group of players to attend a National Youth Orchestra concert in Leeds in 2007.

 

 

All future sponsorship, donations, or subscriptions are very welcome!

 

Sponsorship starts from £30 for Individuals or £50 for Business/Corporate a year. For details of the benefits in both directions, please contact Andy G, Sponsorship Secretary,

or email Admin.

 

And of course, if you want to hear the benefit of sponsoring a group, you just need to come along to one of their concerts to find out just how worthwhile this is.

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Friends of the
East Riding Youth Orchestras