Category Archives: Fundraising

Sponsored cycle for PKMF and Perthshire Brass – a tribute to George Annan Snr.

On 16-17th May 2020, supporters of PKMF are cycling from Perth to Ecclefechan to raise funds for Perthshire Brass and Perth & Kinross Music Foundation, and to honour the founder of both groups, George Annan Snr, who passed away last year.

PKMF’s Chairperson, Mrs Mhairi Mackinnon said, “We chose Ecclefechan because of George’s saying “a crotchet is the same length in Perth, Scone, or Ecclefechan” when teaching youngsters how to play brass music.”

“The route takes us 120 miles over 2 days, with an overnight in Lanark.”

Perthshire Brass was formed in 1978 by George Annan Snr (as Perthshire Youth Brass) to enable youngsters in the area to learn a brass instrument and play in a band together. The band has evolved over the years to new have both a youth band and senior band. They now participate in numerous competitions all over the country, as well as many concerts every year in the local area. The band also goes on tour every couple of years to Perth’s twin cities (Aschaffenburg, Germany and Bydgoszcz, Poland most recently). Any funds raised from this venture will go towards the continued development of young players in both the youth and senior bands as well aiding the running of both bands.

The Perth and Kinross Music Foundation are a registered charity that was founded in 1997. (One of the founder members was George Annan senior). They are a small group but have big ambitions with the main aim being ‘to let our children play!’

They help between 75 and 100 pupils annually whose parents cannot afford to pay for their music tuition. This allows them to continue learning through their lessons and also to play in Central Groups. Playing a musical instrument let’s children grow in confidence, learn self discipline and life enhancing skills and above all, experience the joy of music making.

If you would like to sponsor us- please go to our JUST GIVING page.

Youth Philanthropy Initiative

Posted by Joanne Robertson on Thursday, 17 October 2019

Thanks to four young friends who took part in the Youth Philanthropy Initiative at school this term, each group chose a charity that they would like to support and put together a presentation to try and win £3000 for their chosen charity – the Perth and Kinross Music Foundation.

Proud mum, Joanne Robertson, said, “The four kids put together this video to explain what music means to them and most importantly recognised how privileged they are at their school. This presentation wasn’t about them, it was genuine and close to their hearts.”

“Although they made it through to the finals, they didn’t win BUT have come away thinking about how they can help in the future.”

On behalf of the Perth and Kinross Music Foundation, Mr Gordon Murch, thanked the youngsters for speaking up on behalf of the charity.

“Their efforts have gone far to demonstrate the wide public support for our work and to prove the huge values to be uncovered from learning to play a musical instrument.”

Credit to their young composer and his pal on guitar!.

Quiz success

PKMF held a fundraising Quiz Night on Tuesday 17 September 2019 in the Civil Service Club, Perth.  Joint Quiz Masters for the evening were Jason Blythe and Dave Findlay who had set some very challenging, but fun, questions.  13 teams took part and all participants who made a comment at the end of the evening expressed how much they had enjoyed themselves.  A raffle was also held and the final proceeds to the Foundation funds after all expenses had been settled was £545. 

The quiz was won by a team calling themselves “The B Side” with an extremely high score of 82 out of a possible 100.  The evening was sponsored by Errochty Financial Services, a local company, which sponsored the cost of hiring the venue.  The Committee will review how the evening went at its next meeting and will hopefully choose to organise another Quiz Night evening in the future. 

RSCDS cheque for Music Foundation

RSCDS presents a cheque for £151 to Mr Neil Copland (treasurer)

Perth and Kinross Music Foundation’s treasurer, Mr Neil Copland, was delighted to accept a donation in aid of the work carried out by the Foundation, which financially supports youngsters in Perth and Kinross to access instrumental music lessons in schools. 

Perth and Kinross Music Foundation’s treasurer, Mr Neil Copland, was delighted to accept a donation in aid of the work being carried out by the Foundation, which supports youngsters in Perth and Kinross by helping them access instrumental music lessons in schools. 

Members of Perth and Perthshire Branch of the Royal Scottish Country Dance Society’s Wednesday Class had raised £151 from raffles held at their end of term parties where Mrs Mo Rutherford (piano) had been their guest musician. They wanted to thank Mrs Rutherford and, at her suggestion, they made their cheque payable to the Foundation.

The dancers were gathered at the Robert Douglas Memorial Hall, Scone, and a combined cheque for £151 was presented by dance teacher Miss Christian Catto, watched by some of the members, and that evening’s guest accordionist, Frank Thomson.

Celebrating Sixty Cellos

Thanks to cello tutor Sarah Oxnard who celebrated her 60th Birthday by inviting 60 cellos to gather and played together. After lots of great organising by Sarah – and hard work by her friends – the day end with in informal concert and raised £757.24 for Perth and Kinross Music Foundation.

Thank you Sarah – and thank you to all who supported this wonderful initiative.

Bags of Help – Tescos

Perth and Kinross Music Foundation has been chosen by Tesco to participate in the “Bags of Help” fundraising scheme. It would be great if as many people as possible could support this by getting the blue tokens when they pay for their shopping in Perth or Scone Tesco stores and dropping them into our section of the voting board. Please tell all friends and family about this so the Foundation can raise as much funds as possible to help children access Instrumental Music Tuition.

Quiz Night – 13th June

Perth and Kinross Music Foundation will be holding a quiz night on 13th June at 7.30pm in Craigie Hill Golf Club. Teams of 4 will cost £20 and tables can be booked by contacting Mhairi MacKinnon. There will also be a raffle on the evening too. A great event, not to be missed.

COMING EVENTS IN 2018

COMING EVENTS IN 2018
in aid of Perth and Kinross Music Foundation Funds


Tutors’ Concert
3pm, Sunday 30th September
St John the Evangelist’s, Episcopal Church,
Princes St, Perth PH2 8LJ.

Childline Concert
7.30pm, Thursday 6th December
Perth Concert Hall, Horsecross,
Mill Street, Perth, PH1 5HZ.

The ‘Childline Concert’ originally raised funds for the newly established Perth and Kinross Music Foundation. For some years now the event has enjoyed the full support and backing of Perth and Kinross Instrumental Music Service and the pupils and families from PKC Central Groups, including Perth Youth Orchestra.

We are pleased to report that, after a gap of several years, 10% of the proceeds the
Childline Concert will now go to Perth and Kinross Music Foundation
with whom the event will be jointly promoted.

THANK YOU TO ALL OUR
SPONSORS AND SUPPORTERS
INCLUDING THE GANNOCHY TRUST
THE GUILDRY INCORPORATION OF PERTH
THE CROSS TRUST
THE JIMMIE CAIRNCROSS TRUST

Welcome Support for Young Musicians

Local tenor, Liam Bonthrone presented Perth and Kinross Music Foundation with a cheque for £1050.

The proceeds came from one of series of concerts that Liam is planning to give in aid of the charity which supports needy families by funding their children’s attendance at weekly orchestras and music groups as well as making it possible for them to attend music camps. Liam, who studied in Perth with Mrs Edna Auld, is now a student at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland (RCS) and is looking forward to furthering his studies with the Dutch tenor Amand Hekkers, in the Netherlands, later this year.

Receiving the cheque on behalf of PKMF, Mr Andrew Mitchell (trustee) said, “It is a great pleasure to see young people supporting other youngsters, not only by allowing them to discover the joys of music, but also to develop their skills to the fullest. Liam is a terrific role model having only recently benefited from the work of the local Music Service he is eager to make it possible for others to do the same.”

Liam’s next concert in support of PKMF will be in St John’s Kirk, Perth on Saturday 25th March, at 7.30pm when he will be joined by six highly talented RCS students for an evening entitled ‘Spring Voices’.

Tickets are £10 (adults) and £5 (children and students).

CAPTION – L-R Liam Bonthrone (tenor) with Andrew Mitchell (Perth and Kinross Music Foundation)