DRAKE MUSIC SCOTLAND

Donations from Grant Makers ?

We have details on the following donations. Multi-year donations are allocated to the years for which they are earmarked.

Major supporters in last 5 years

Specific Donations

Amount	When Months	To be used for
Esmee Fairbairn - Grant to Drake Music Scotland
£15,000	30/01/2023	Towards unrestricted core costs as a Cost of Living Uplift
William Grant Foundation - DMS Create 2023-2025
£72,000	05/12/2022	Unrestricted funding but made in response to a shortfall in the budget for their DMS Create strand, enabling disabled musicians and composers to develop artistically and professionally. This includes creating a new Creative Access Support ....more Unrestricted funding but made in response to a shortfall in the budget for their DMS Create strand, enabling disabled musicians and composers to develop artistically and professionally. This includes creating a new Creative Access Support Co-ordinator post. Keywords: inclusive; music; artists; technology.
The Foyle Foundation - Learning (MGS)
£25,000	03/12/2021	to purchase essential music making equipment to enable Drake Music Scotland to continue delivering face-to-face and online workshops for disabled children and young people
Garfield Weston Foundation - Main Grants award
£10,000	05/11/2021	DMS Create
Esmee Fairbairn - Grant to Drake Music Scotland
£200,000	23/06/2021	Towards unrestricted core costs to remove barriers for disabled people to music making, offering a range of high-quality training, development and performance opportunities.
RS Macdonald Charitable Trust - Disabled Artist Network
£7,680	24/03/2021	Pilot and test a new disabled-led network from April 2021-March 2022 which aims to develop the skills and promote the careers of neurodiverse composers/ music creators across Scotland.
William Grant Foundation - General operating support 2021
£15,000	04/02/2021 12	Unrestricted funding for this disabled music organisation working across Scotland. Keywords: disability arts; music technology
DCMS - VSCE CMC Fund
£4,170	07/10/2020	NET, Comic Relief and Children in Need will use this funding to provide: increased support to vulnerable people and hidden groups, thus reducing the burden on public services; reach local grassroots and small organisations who can provide an ....more NET, Comic Relief and Children in Need will use this funding to provide: increased support to vulnerable people and hidden groups, thus reducing the burden on public services; reach local grassroots and small organisations who can provide an on-the-ground community response to the crisis; and, support local charitable organisations to mobilise volunteers to enable better targeted support in communities through empowered local groups.
Foundation Scotland - Grant to Drake Music Scotland
£4,170	07/10/2020 2	To deliver 90 additional online music sessions for 15 disabled people for 6 weeks. The sessions will target those who are vulnerable and self-isolating and who would most benefit from access to on-line music making sessions
Scottish Government - Drake Music Scotland
£5,125	19/05/2020	Detailed description not provided.
Esmee Fairbairn - Grant to Drake Music Scotland
£20,000	05/05/2020 6	towards unrestricted core costs as a COVID-19 fast response grant
Garfield Weston Foundation - Main Grants award
£10,000	17/01/2020	Centre Stage
RS Macdonald Charitable Trust - Musicspace
£27,000	29/05/2019	Over 3 years beginning in August 2019, Musicspace will create group music making activities and local community sharing events for 114 disabled people in the Craigmillar/ Niddrie area. Learning to play music with others has proven benefits of ....more Over 3 years beginning in August 2019, Musicspace will create group music making activities and local community sharing events for 114 disabled people in the Craigmillar/ Niddrie area. Learning to play music with others has proven benefits of reducing isolation, increasing confidence and communication skills.
The Clothworkers Foundation - Grant to Drake Music Scotland
£14,000	22/05/2019	purchase of digital musical instruments and inclusive technologies for a charity which works with people with disabilities in Scotland
The Foyle Foundation - Learning (MGS)
£20,000	25/04/2019	towards salary of a Programme Manager for one year to manage the All Join In SEN music programme to work with schools across Scotland
Robertson Trust - The Pathways Project
£20,000	26/09/2018	The Pathways Project
Corra Foundation - HDA-18/117
£7,000	29/03/2018	Towards the Salary of the Senior Programme Manager
Esmee Fairbairn - Grant to Drake Music Scotland
£120,000	18/12/2017 36	Towards the salaries of the artistic director and senior manager and other costs to enhance the skills and opportunities for musicians and composers with disabilities.
BBC Children in Need - Grant to Drake Music Scotland
£14,354	13/11/2017 36	This project will run a weekly after-school music club for children aged 6-12yrs who have learning and sensory disabilities. They will be more confident, improve their communication and social skills and have raised aspirations.
Corra Foundation - HDA-17/108
£6,000	30/03/2017	towards the Salary of the Senior Programme Manager
RS Macdonald Charitable Trust - Everyone from the top!
£15,000	25/11/2015	Everyone from the top! will enable 18 people with neurological conditions opportunities to gain confidence, independence and improve their social and communication skills through group music tuition. Performances at a series of local events will ....more Everyone from the top! will enable 18 people with neurological conditions opportunities to gain confidence, independence and improve their social and communication skills through group music tuition. Performances at a series of local events will help disabled people become more visible and involved in their community.
Robertson Trust - The Pathways Project
£27,000	30/06/2015	The Pathways Project
Esmee Fairbairn - Grant to Drake Music Scotland
£82,500	28/08/2013	Towards the salary of the chief executive to develop and implement earned-income generation plans to support a programme of music-making activities for 3,000 children and adults with disabilities and training for 500 teachers and musicians.
National Lottery Community Fund - There is no project name available for this record
£10,000	03/08/2012 12	This project aims to raise the awareness and business potential of their Figurenotes notation system. The grant will be used to identify specialist and mainstream markets, analyse routes to markets, formulate a marketing plan, research competitors ....more This project aims to raise the awareness and business potential of their Figurenotes notation system. The grant will be used to identify specialist and mainstream markets, analyse routes to markets, formulate a marketing plan, research competitors and target potential investors.
Esmee Fairbairn - Grant to Drake Music Scotland
£23,000	08/07/2009 12	Towards Project costs Towards the costs of sessional musicians to introduce the Figure Notes notation system across Scotland.

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Directors (15)

Legal constitution

• Charity registered in Scotland on 07/08/1997, number: SC026908
• Registered at Companies House on 24/07/1997, number: SC177502

Filing Record

Main office

SPACE, 11 Harewood Road, Edinburgh, EH16 4NT

Objectives

The objects for which the Company is established are. Primarily in Scotland, but without restricting the locus of the activities of the Company:- (a) the advancement of the arts and of education in the arts, and in particular the art of music, amongst children and adults with a physical disability, learning difficulty or sensory impairment or who are in need by reason of other disadvantage through the use of specially developed technology or methodology and through interaction with others. (b) the promotion of research into new technologies and methodologies for the advancement of the arts and of education in the arts, and in particular the art of music, amongst such children and adults and the publication of the results of such research. and (c) any such other similar charitable object as the Trustees shall think fit.