Music for All has concluded Round 4 of its small grants process for 2024, and announced the recipients of in excess of $25,000 in grants to 21 reipients across Australia.
A number of individual applicants received small grants to continue their music studies with lessons or instruments, otherwise unaffordable. Community groups and schools received grants that enabled programs and projects to survive, grow, and in some cases establish.
Music for All reported a record number of applicants, exceeding 100 in 2024. “This not only demonstrates the need which exists in the music making community in many cases, it also shows how Music for All’s grants program is enhancing its profile, and becoming more widely known” said Chairman, Adrian Alexander. As well as more applications, we hope this increased profile may result in more donations to our charity, he added, enabling us to enrich more lives, and fulfil more musical dreams and aspirations.
This grants round saw instruments, lessons and equipment donated to community bands, orchestras and other community-based music making activities, as well as to to school music programs in need of assistance, and families struggling to pay for music lessons and instruments for their children.
This round of grants was largely enabled through the generosity of the Phil Taylor Foundation, together with smaller donations from the community and the support of music suppliers around the country particularly Australasian Music Supplies and Yamaha for helping us source instruments. Donations to Music for All are fully tax deductible and support small grants that enable music making in circumstances that are challenging.
