SoundSational Community Music
We are a non profit community arts organisation. We have around 450 per week through our doors and we work with another couple hundred offsite each week. Our aim is to bring the whole community together through music and arts. We believe that everyone can sing and that music should be accessible to all walks of life regardless of age, creed, gender, background, race or sexuality. Everyone is welcome at SoundSational Community Music and we are known as the 'Soul of the Community'. Our current age range at SoundSational is 5 to 82 being our oldest member and we have around 140 in our choirs alone. Our choir's biggest achievements to date are being the very first act EVER to open the SSE Hydro! We have many other huge achievements and milestones to be proud of such as performing on the Kings Theatre stage with Michelle McManus, working with real radio, opening the Scottish Charity Awards ceremony and many more plus we have helped raise over £250,000 for other charities through various performances and fund raisers! At SoundSational, we are more than just a choir, we are a family that looks after one another. Our doors are open 7 days a week, 10am till 10pm. SoundSational works closely with the NHS, See Me, SAMH and many other organisations to help tackle the stigma of mental health, a topic which is very close to our hearts and is the sole reason why SoundSational exists. Many members use our centre as a safe place to be and as a drop in centre. We have our own Youth Forum, which highlights any issues that young people having - not limited to music! - and we act upon these issues to make sure they are getting the help and support with whatever they are experiencing. We also have a volunteers committee of around 30 from all age ranges, who help organise fundraisers and help with the running of our centre. Our centre was built by the people who use it, every wall that was painted, every piece of flooring that was laid, was done by our members and we have now outgrown our facility, which happens to be the very first purpose built choir centre in Scotland. Now that we are one of the largest community groups in the country, we are looking for help with our running costs. Each month we have around a £3000 deficite that we need to fundraise to help cover and all fees to hire out the choir go back into reducing this deficite but we still need your help!! Please help us keep our centre going and help us to keep doing the work we do. Any donation is very much greatly appreciated. Thank you so much for taking the time to read this and please feel free to come and join us and be part of something wonderful. We believe that "Music is the medicine for the soul" xx
