If you’re based in Cambridgeshire and you know of a local project that needs support, you are encouraged to apply for a grant from The Dosoco Foundation, which is inviting applications for its sixth round of funding. Organisations, families and individual young people are all urged to take part and applications can be as creative as possible.
Grants are available for up to £1000 for organisations and up to £300 for individuals.
The Foundation can contribute up to 50% towards project costs. The only requirements are for the project to take place in Cambridgeshire and to have the potential to enhance lives though music, particularly in the four key areas of music education, music access, music innovation and music therapy. The Foundation seeks fresh ideas and welcomes applications from those who offer new ways to make music change lives.
Previous funding rounds have seen the Dosoco Foundation provide a total of more than £18,000 to support a broad range of music-related projects. As examples, the Foundation in the past has contributed to funding:
- A community choir in an area of Cambridge that did not have such a facility
- Music therapy for children with special needs, plus support for their families
- Instruments and tuition for young players with autism, cystic fibrosis and other conditions
- Singing workshops at local prisons
- Music therapy for dementia sufferers and their families. Several choirs for people with dementia have also been set up
- Music workshops, instruments or high-tech recording equipment for youth organisations, people with learning difficulties, or people with mental health or well being issues
Dosoco is a Community Interest Company set up for social good – specifically, to benefit the community through music-related projects that have the power to unlock people's worlds. This is its sixth round of funding, following significant success with local projects since its inception in 2013.
The closing date for applications is this Friday 26th October 2018 and awards will be announced by the end of November.
For more information about Dosoco and to apply, please go to www.thedosocofoundation.org and click on grants.
Image: Students from previous Dosoco grant recipients, Rowan Humberstone, performing using instruments purchased with their grant. Credit: Rowan Humberstone
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The Dosoco Foundation www.thedosocofoundation.org / www.twitter.com/thedosoco Dosoco supports music-related projects that have the power to unlock people's worlds and have a positive social impact as a result. The foundation supports four areas (music therapy, music access, music education and the innovative use of sound and music for social good) by providing grants to individuals and organisations across Cambridgeshire. In the future, Dosoco hopes to be offering workshops and commissioning its own music-related activities to increase access to and participation with music-making opportunities. The Dosoco Foundation is funded by profits from We Are Sound gigs, private donations and its own fund-raising activities. In its three years of activity, Dosoco has donated over £18K to Cambridgeshire based projects. |
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We Are Sound www.twitter.com/theunionofsound We Are Sound is a genre-bending crossover musical collective of over 140 singers and instrumentalists, all drawn from Cambridge and the surrounding area. Founded in 2010, the group performs large-scale gigs in the region's best venues, and has collaborated with bands including Basement Jaxx, Boo Hewerdine, Megson, and Dirty Freud. In 2013, We Are Sound (then called The Dowsing Sound Collective) launched The Dosoco Foundation. |
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House of Cambridge House of Cambridge is an arts brand, co-founded by entrepreneur (and We Are Sound/ Dosoco Foundation founder) Andrea Cockerton, with commercial director Jenny Nelder. We’re launching a week long ‘feast of festivals’ in Cambridge. The city has a whole heap of thriving arts & cultural brands, yet there is nothing showcasing it all in one brilliant week. We think something should. In the meantime, we’re launching a series of ‘extraordinary events’. Some will be large, and some small. But they will all be that little bit quirky and unexpected. |