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Hi everyone!
We are Powered By the People, a partnership between Newbigin Community Trust, Motherland Music CIC, and Ifa Yoruba Contemporary Arts Trust. Our aim is empower the arts in Winson Green and we need your help to make it happen!
Our aim is to put on an interdisciplinary arts festival in 2026 at Newbigin Community Trust's Lodge Road base, with three smaller events over this coming year running up to the big day. We will be working with local schools and community groups to run music workshops, local artists and musicians creating a community band and choir, as well as working with local businesses to bring the whole community together at the festival.
We are really excited to share that we have received funding from Birmingham City Council Cultural Action Areas Programme funded by Enterprise Zone, which has enabled us to get the ball rolling. However we need to raise more funds to make this event as impactful as possible and keep this going year on year. That's where you come in.
If you are able, please donate and share this with friends and family. This is truly for the people and by the people, and we need our communities to come together to make this happen!
Your donations will be helping to cover the following costs:
- Musician and artist fees
- The purchase of instruments e.g. steel pans
- Workshop leader fees for school and community work
- Suitable PA system and secure storage
If we raise any extra funding, this will go towards our future events.
Thank you so much, and we hope to see you at our events and festival coming soon!
Team Powered By the People x


