Local support makes lots of difference!

Here we are in the local press -  receiving a cheque on behalf of the group, generously given us by Radco through donations collected on their gala night.

Local support works in lots of ways, and donations do really help.

Click here to see the photo and read all about it.

Radco's year of support for our work

We often mention our major funders, Youth Music. But it's important to remember that their funds are matched by smaller amounts from others, too. It's a vital part of keeping our work going.

Count Me In have been the Radstock Co-Ops 'charity of the year' and they've taken a real interest in what we do. We've been grateful for their generous donations but were totally surprised to get a letter after their recent Gala Evening, saying "thanks to the generosity of our sponsors, guests, business partners and suppliers we raised a fairly significant amount for charities and local community groups. In this respect, we'd like to make a donation to Count Me In / Heartbeats to mark the end of the society's year of supporting the cause."

They also said "we'd like to pay tribute to the great work that Count Me In does in helping people to engage, communicate and express themselves through the medium of music."

So - brilliant news for us. We're looking forward to a visit from them : here's a picture of the last visit.

Music for Alice

Our workshops wouldn't be the same without the instruments we've bought with funding from Music for Alice.
Read more about how their funding has helped us on their website here

Thanks to Waitrose

The AllStars / Heart Beats team are sending out a big Thank You to Waitrose in Wells.... thanks to their Community Matters scheme we've been donated the grand sum of £276 pounds to spend on new instruments for our music sessions. Yay!

Music For Alice

We love getting letters - they are quite rare these days, it's nearly always emails.
So it was doubly lovely that when Music for Alice sent a cheque through to us - their grant to AllStars for some new instruments - it came with a hand-written note on the back of a postcard.
This is the postcard :

Chet Baker and his band. How cool is that.
Thank you, Music for Alice.
Anyway, time to get shopping - we have a list ...

Happy Day

Count Me In and the Heart Beats music crew want to say a huge 'THANK YOU' to the Members of the Radstock Co-Operative Society who have chosen us as their nominated 'charity of the year'.... and  for presenting us with another enormous cheque, this time for £1,100.

Happy moment....

RCS Director Craig Doughty visited our session last week to present the cheque.

As you can imagine, we soon had Craig and his colleague Vicki sitting in the circle and playing music with us.


The money will help us deliver our AllStars project : we can reach new people by extending our outreach provision, share our news and ideas through an updated website, and invest in some extra management and promotional time to improve the impact of what we do.

Yet more great news for AllStars

 

Count Me In are the Radstock Co-operative's chosen charity of the year !
At their recent AGM the Radco members voted 'in favour of supporting Heat Beats and Count Me in for the coming year'.

This means that they will be presenting us with a cheque, which, coming so soon after their last donation, is absolutely wonderful news.

We said we'd use any donation they make for the AllStars project - this will help us to improve our impact, efficiency and quality, and extend our reach.

We like their local ethos and are proud to be supported by them.

The Big Cheque!

We'd like to say thanks to the Radstock Co-operative Society, who have given Count Me In a (very big) cheque.
We will use this money to benefit the people who join the AllStars project.
For a small organisation like us, it's really great to know you are supported by your local community. Donations do make a lot of difference.

coming soon ...

 

Heart Beats lives on! 

Hold your breath for our new project.....coming soon

The Heart Beats AllStars music makers.

REALLY PROUD to be able to put this logo on our work again.

THANK YOU Youth Music.

 

 

Good news for Heart Beats

This week we heard that the Radstock Co-operative society are going to give us a generous donation. They say this is 'to aid in the positive work you do'.

We're really pleased about this. We are going to spend this money on some new instruments because we feel this will benefit everyone for a long time in the future.

Some good news for 2014

Thank you very much, Esmee Fairbairn and SW Foundation, for agreeing to a request for some addiitonal funding for Heart Beats in 2014.
We're going to use this funding to put on some Heart Beats parties, so - hooray!
Happy Christmas!

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