Enriching Lives through the Power of Music
The Postlethwaite Music Foundation is a grant making trust established in 2015 by Mrs Ruth Holmes in memory of her mother's family and is funded through an endowment from the estate of Alan Postlethwaite.
The Postlethwaite family were accomplished musicians, sharing a great love of music, and so the Foundation's aim is to encourage a larger number of people to benefit from this area of the arts.
The Foundation gives grants of around £1,000 to small music-focused registered charities in England carrying out work to:
- Advance music through education
- Encourage the therapeutic benefits of music
- To promote live music to the wider community
Since the Foundation was founded, we have given grants totalling over £118,162 to 48 different charities. These have supported not only concerts featuring a wide range of musical styles but also student bursaries; community singing workshops; the establishment of new music groups; music therapy sessions; commissioned works; the purchase of musical equipment; the adaptation of musical instruments for those with a disability, and music research.
If you are thinking of making an application, then please contact our Administrator for an initial discussion about your organisation and its work. In addition to considering unsolicited applications our trustees actively seek appropriate charities which the Foundation can fund.
You can support the Foundation's work by making a donation or remembering us in your will.
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The Postlethwaite Music Foundation is committed to transparency and work with 360Giving to publish information about our grants. Using the 360Giving Data Standard, our awarded grants since 2016 are available as an Excel spreadsheet here. This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License. To view a copy of this license, visit http://creativecommons.org/lic.... This means the data is freely accessible to anyone to be used and shared as they wish. The data must be attributed to The Postlethwaite Music Foundation.
We believe that with better information, funders can be more effective and strategic decision makers. 360Giving supports funders to publish open data about their grants, and empowers people to use this data to improve charitable giving through a range of free online tools. For more information, visit https://www.threesixtygiving.o...
