The Wiltshire Music Centre offers a range of opportunities to enable individuals and businesses to invest in and support the Centre’s work. To find out more, email Karina Eccles or call 01225 860 110.

Individual Support
Friends and Benefactors
The Friends of the Wiltshire Music Centre get involved with and support the Centre in a variety of ways including providing funding for specific projects and concerts, running fundraising and social events and acting as ambassadors for the work of the Centre. They have generously supported a variety of different projects at the Centre, including the computerized box office, equipment for Young Friends, and the handrails in the auditorium. In return they enjoy priority booking for concerts, invitations to special social events and information about the Centre’s activities.

Benefactors are Friends who give greater financial support to the Centre and receive a wider range of benefits including priority booking, free tickets, invitations to special events and public acknowledgement of their support.

Annual Friend £12
Annual Joint Friend £20
Annual Benefactors £100
Joint Annual Benefactors £180

For further details please call 01225 860 100.

Gift Aid
If you pay UK tax, you can increase the value of your donations to the Wiltshire Music Centre by making a Gift Aid declaration when you become a Friend or Benefactor. This will enable the Centre to claim tax on every payment you make, increasing its value by 28p for every £1 you give.

Legacies
Gifts to charities reduce the inheritance tax that has to be paid, and are a way of continuing to support your favourite organisation. If you enjoy the Music Centre and would like to contribute to its continued success, why not include the Wiltshire Music Centre Trust as a residuary beneficiary in your will, once the needs of your family and friends have been met?

Such gifts give vital support to the work of the Music Centre and donations of cash or shares are equally welcome. Your money could help young and disadvantaged young people to benefit from the Centre’s outreach educational projects or purchase lasting capital items for the building. Recent legacies have supported a new PA system for public speaking, improvements for disabled access and a much needed fund for equipment which could not otherwise be afforded.

Working with Business
Wiltshire Music Centre works with large national and smaller local businesses in a wide variety of ways to help meet their marketing objectives, fulfil corporate development requirements and build good community relations. We offer a range of services that can be tailored to suit your company including:

Concert sponsorship opportunities
Sponsorship is one of the proven tools of marketing, offering a bespoke profile-raising opportunity for businesses. Choose a concert to suit your musical taste, and we will provide you with a private reception to entertain guests and reward staff. Concert sponsorship also includes wide-spread and well targeted publicity to raise the profile of your business or brand amongst our audiences, the media and the wider community.

Business Partnership
You can network with other business people, entertain guests and reward staff at four pre-concert receptions each year. The receptions take place during the week in a relaxed environment.

Education and community project sponsorship
Sponsoring education and community projects run by the Centre can enhance your corporate image and demonstrate your company’s social and community responsibility. Most projects last for at least a year, have a broad geographical spread and attract extensive media and public attention.

To discuss how the Music Centre might help you to achieve your public relations, human resources and community relations objectives, please contact: Karina Eccles on 01225 860 110.

Trusts and Foundations
Since the Wiltshire Music Centre opened, we have had generous support from national and local trusts and foundations and we are proud to acknowledge their help. Their donations have helped to build the Centre, to support its creative and education programmes and to maintain and upkeep this unique building. We are particularly grateful to the Esmée Fairbairn Foundation, which gave the Centre much needed core support in its first six years. National foundations that have supported recent educational activities include Youth Music, Lloyds TSB Foundation, John Lewis Partnership, Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation and BBC Children in Need. We have support from local trusts including the Wiltshire & Swindon Community Foundation, the RJ Harris Trust, the Joyce Fletcher Trust and the Medlock Trust.