Spent an interesting day meeting with community music projects - never cease to wonder at musicians commitment - and always encouraged by musicians passion for introducing other people to the soulful joys of making music - and always diffident about being introduced as a pioneer of the movement here in the UK.
What never ceases to amaze me is how much time people spend preparing funding applications to Trusts and funders when they do not meet the fundamental requirements for funding. Its tough business being the bearer of bad news when a group of people have spent six months working on application
Then muggins points out that applications are only considered from registered charities and that it might take 6 months to get that status!
It says it plainly and clearly on page one of the application details - but they had not spotted it in their rush to read page 2 and 3 which describes the pot of money and some previous successful applications.
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