Huntingdonshire Music School Association - Charity

From Tubanews:

Tuba Carols 2009 is on Sunday 13th December at 12.45 until 14.30 in front of St. Paul’s Cathedral.

Please tell all your Tuba / euphonium / baritone/ sousaphone / helicon / ophecleide / serpent / cimbasso playing friends, and of course, put the date in your own diary.

Music (4 parts, with descants, all clefs) will be provided, also chairs, you will need to bring a music stand.
Last year we managed a fantastic 54 players and collected £780 for charity. (Watch last year’s on YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J879e_ntkn0 )

This year it would be great if we could manage 75 + players! We’ll be collecting for The Prostate Cancer Research Foundation (www.thepcrf.org), who’s fundraising campaign using the memory of Bob Monkhouse is, I’m sure, already familiar to many of you.

I look forward to hearing all of you on Sunday 13th December!

Best regards, Chris Ludwig, Tuba Carols.

tubacarols@ntlworld.com

Waitrose (part of the John Lewis Partnership) have a fund-raising scheme to support local organisations in the area around their store locations - it’s called ‘Community Matters’.

Every month each store has £1,000 to donate to a total of 3 needy and respected organisations. The way it works is that every time you shop in the store you collect a green token and place it in one of the 3 boxes - 1 for each of the month’s 3 organisations. At the end of the month the contents of each is weighed and each organisations gets their weight as a percentage of the total as a proportion of the £1,000.

Well, this month in the Waitrose store at St. Benedict’s Court in Huntingdon the Huntingdonshire Music School is one of the 3 organisations to benefit from the generosity of Waitrose.

Please shop in Waitrose and drop your green counter into our box!!

What is HUMSA?

It is the parent body that supports the Huntingdonshire Music School - a form of PTA.

The aims and objectives of HUMSA are:-

• to provide a stimulating environment in which to promote the study and performance of music for students of all ages, abilities and backgrounds in Huntingdon and surrounding areas.
• to offer a broad range of specialist, individual music tuition for students at all ability levels, consolidated by theory tuition, aural training and group music making activities to match the varying needs and interests
• to promote the musical education of children and young persons and adults resident in the area around Huntingdon in particular by organising and supporting a music school
• to promote the enjoyment and performance of orchestral, instrumental and choral music and all other performing arts in this area

The role of HUMSA is to strive to achieve these objectives. Specifically it will:-

• establish, provide, maintain and encourage the teaching of music, music theory and music performance in the area around Huntingdon.
• make access to this musical education open to all without distinction of age, sex, race, religion, ethnic origin or place of residence.
• as far as practically possible encourage and enable the pursuit of this musical education and performance by children and young people of families of limited financial means.
• establish, maintain and encourage such orchestras, bands and musical ensembles as are judged by the Management Committee mentioned below to promote the objects of the Association.
• prepare and promote concert performances by such ensembles of music of all kinds both in public and in private.
• strive towards achievement of the highest possible musical standards by the various musical ensembles
• encourage the achievement of the highest possible success in practical and theory examinations in all kinds of music and performing arts by those taking part in the Association’s activities.

Whilst this might sound as though it needs super heroes with underpants on the outside, we are, in fact, everyday mortals (Mk 1 Human Beings).

Who is in HUMSA?

All adult pupils of the Music College and parents of our younger pupils are automatically members of HUMSA. Specifically, the types of membership available are:-

• Ordinary Members. Persons who have enrolled for tuition or participation in ensembles plus parents and guardians of these members. Friends of the Association who have paid the annual subscription
• Life Members. Individuals who have paid a single subscription or donation to the Association of not less than five times the Friend’s annual subscription
• Corporate Members. Bodies corporate and unincorporated societies which subscribe to the Association an annual sum of not less than ten times the Friend’s annual subscription

How Is it Run?

Like any other organisation, we have a committee that runs HUMSA on a day to day basis. We have formal positions of Chairman, Secretary and Treasurer. We have an Annual General Meeting (groan ;-( )for the election of committee members and the formal positions which is normally co-incident with an end-of-term concert.

We do involve the rest of HUMSA where collective decisions have to be made or where information needs to be gathered to help formulate plans for the future.