Here's some examples of Music in Action’s regular outreach projects:
Access Bursaries
Allow at least 32 students to access music tuition at Janvrin School and 32 at D’Auvergne School. We are opening the scheme up to Rouge Bouillon children in 2025.
Click on this video to see the astounding progress by pupils in the first year.
Click on the video below to see the work of the charity as children try out musical instruments.
Outreach into Schools
Music in Action sends out professional musicians to thousands of schools children each year, teaching them about many musical styles from Mozart to Gershwin, and about all the instruments from the violin to the guitar.
This video is about Outreach in May and October 2022 supported by the Association of Jersey Charities and funded from the Channel Islands Lottery.
This picture was of a string quartet at St Mary's School.
(c) Jean Lelliot
Young Artist Programme
Music in Action fundraises to support a number of young Artists each year who wish to make music their life and career.
See Hamish Brodie Music in Action’s first Young Artist performing and leading outreach in this video:
Community Care Homes Outreach
Music in Action hosts around 20 workshops in care homes each year.
Many artists including this picture of Harriet Mackenzie and Morgan Szymanski perform therapeutic music events in care homes including the Limes, Hospice and at the hospital. Music in Action organises around 20 such events each year. In 2020 as a response to covid, MiA delivered virtual outreach programmes to over 100 residents in just three months.
Lakeside Care Home said: "The performance was absolutely breathtaking. Many of our residents are incapacitated in various ways and are not always able to express their enjoyment in ways that are readily apparent. It was wonderful to see the rapt attention they paid to the performance, the beaming smiles on their faces and the rapturous applause at the end of every piece. Without organisations such as yours our residents would never have had the opportunity to experience such a special occasion."
This video below is in covid times when we delivered virtual music sessions to over 100 care home residents in just three months. Local Jersey musicians meet with residents, who are often in isolation, to spread live music and joy.
Jersey Sings!
Each year Music in Action organises Jersey Sings which is an opportunity for school children to develop their all round skills, from team-work, to stamina and memory, as well as learning about music through singing. In 2023, Jersey Sings turned into Jersey Sings Across the Bay.
Click below to see more.
Schools concerts at Jersey Opera House and Methodist and St Mark’s Church
As part of the Liberation Festival, Music in Action hosts over 600 school children for educational concerts. The concerts teach the children diverse skills from beat-boxing, to jazz, to learning about classical music through the BBC Ten Pieces.
This picture is of a workshop learning about music at the Jersey Opera House with probably the finest ensemble in the world, the Berlin Philharmonic Octet.
