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LutonAid Announcement

 

I know that we’ve kept you waiting but it’s taken a while to get all the money from LutonAid 7 in and get the accounts totally right.

 

A record smashing LutonAid raised £7066.65 and, after taking out the costs (just under £1600) and keeping something back to make sure we can cover the cost of LutonAid 8, we will be able to donate £4000 to Keech. This is almost double what we were able to hand over last year. I know I’ve said ‘Thank you’ a lot, but I can’t say it often enough. The LutonAid team do the work to put LutonAid on but it’s you that give your time and money to make it a great success every year.

 

This year is the first time we’ve been able to set aside the costs of the next LutonAid and that means that we can plan without worrying about if there’ll be enough money coming in. We are already planning for a bigger and better LutonAid 8.

 

You may have heard the rumour that LutonAid is changing; it is. LutonAid is registering as a Charity as that will help us to raise even more money for Keech through commercial sponsorship and tax advantages, amongst other things.

 

But that’s not where it ends as LutonAid becoming a charity means that we can expand the work that we are involved in.

 

We want to be able to support the development, and success, of local independent music, be it Rock, Indie, Metal, Ska, Punk, Electronic or anything else that comes along in the future.

 

We will be setting up the LutonAid Music Academy (LAMA) as a way to do this.

 

The vision for LAMA is wide ranging, and we’re only just starting to explore the possibilities. It could be local guitarists running Saturday morning sessions for young guitarists who want help to learn the basics of Metal technique or finding new bands an established band or musician to mentor them on how to release a single through digital media or arrange, and survive, a tour. Maybe, one day, we’ll be able to employ local musicians as teachers going into schools and running lessons on the history, influence and legacy of independent music.

 

The aim is simple, to help to ensure that the independent music scene in and around Luton is healthy, vibrant and widely recognised for it’s quality.

 

Once again, thank you. LutonAid is what it is, and will be what it will become, because of what each of us brings to it.

 

Thank you. :)