The Life Music Foundation is a Newport / Welsh based registered charity that exists to improve the lives of disadvantaged young people through the brilliant mediums of Music & Sport.
We are fortunate to have Welsh Rugby Legend and former Welsh Rugby Captain Gareth Thomas, helping and supporting us in his role as Charity President.
Our aim is to help develop the music and sport skills of youngsters who cannot afford tuition or instruments themselves.
Detailed information about the Life Music Foundation
Background:
The Life Music foundation is a registered charity with a number of charitable and social aims.The primary aim is to fund and develop the music skills of young disadvantaged people who have no means to pay for a fund this development themselves.
Soon we want to be able to offer young people the chance to get together and rehearse and record music in our studios.
The charity also pays for and organises special music lessons for youngsters who are keen to further their music education and will pay for music exams if relevant.
The foundation will also look to fund music school scholarships for any talented musicians from a disadvantaged background. The charity not only furthers education but also looks to serve as a significant benefit to the local community and especially the disadvantage young people from the local community.
The hub of the charity and the base of the work the chairty aims to carry out, will be at an industrial space in Newport which will comprise of offices and a number of sound proofed studios which will be equipped with musical instruments and recording equipment. The rooms will be used by disadvantaged youngsters to help harness their music talants and to help develop their music education, with the assistance of specially qualified Life Music Foundation staff.
Community Benefits:
- To get kids off the street
- To help disadvantaged youths help try and change their lifestyle through music and sport education
- To further the music education of local people
- To produce talented musicians and bands from local talent
- To provide funds and equipment for schools and children’s homes
- To offer grants and bursaries to talented youngsters
Life Music Foundation Aims:
To enhance disadvantaged young people’s lives through the medium of music and sport. To further educate local children and to provide significant benefits to the surrounding communities.Key Objects:
(1) To advance the education of disadvantaged young people in the subject of musicby providing and assisting in the provision of free music lessons, providing studio space and recording equipment, the free use of musical instruments and to provide bursaries to stage schools for talented young people who could not afford to pay for the opportunity themselves.
(2) To advance in life and help young people through:
(a) The provision of musical activities provided in the interest of social welfare, designed to improve their conditions of life.
(b) Providing support, teaching and activities which develop their skills, capacities and capabilities to enable them to participate in society as mature and responsible individuals and to give them a new focus in life. Providing musical facilities and education in the interests of social welfare for people living Newport and Gwent who have need by reason of their youth, age, infirmity or disability, poverty or social and economic circumstances with a view to improving the conditions of life of such persons.
For more information or to make a donation or contribution to The Life Music Foundation (Registered Charity 1130307) or one of our upcming events please visit www.lifemusicfoundation.org/
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