Message from the Young Musicians' Parents' Association (YMPA)
Dear Parents and Carers of our Perth and Kinross young musicians
The YMPA (Young Musicians' Parents' Association) would like to thank you for your generous donations at the recent Central Groups and Senior Music Camp concerts - we raised £988.
However we will be unable to continue to fundraise to support our young musicians without new volunteers, since after the Summer we will only have 2 parents still with young people at school and involved with the Instrumental Music Service (IMS). Our fundraising activities involve taking a donation bucket collection at the Spring concerts and providing refreshments at the December Mulled Wine concert - not exactly onerous tasks if you are already attending the concert and there are enough willing helpers to share the responsibility.
Over the last year the YMPA has provided financial support of over £6,000 to the IMS so that they can purchase music tuition materials, replacement woodwind reeds, replacement brass instrument mouthpieces, replacement violin and double bass strings, cases for musical instruments, replacement instruments and Central Groups ties - none of which they would have been able to provide to our young musicians without our funding. The YMPA has also subsidised places at Music Camp for a number of young musicians who would not otherwise have been able to attend.
Do you want this important support for our young musicians to be lost ? If not then please get in touch to find out how you can help the YMPA keep going - email : ympaperth@gmail.com
Thank you from the Young Musicians' Parents' Association.
