Music charity seeks golfers with swing

Golf players who enjoy a little swing and playing in a quartet are being invited to play in the first ever golfing tournament organised to raise funds for Services For Education, the Birmingham charity that each year teaches music to nearly 32,000 Birmingham children.

Services For Education’s Golf Tournament is being hosted by Handsworth Golf Club, Birmingham, on Thursday, September 26th, 2024 and is to support its charitable aims.

“We’re looking forward to a fun and friendly day out with the odd musical twist, to help raise funds to enable us to support more young people to enjoy playing music together,” said Sarah Caldwell, the charity’s Fundraising Manager.

As an added bonus, each player will also qualify to receive two complimentary tickets to Services For Education’s Youth Proms at Symphony Hall on Monday, July 8^th. The Youth Proms are held over four nights (July 8 – 11) and involve some 3,000 young musicians and singers.

“Joining us as our guests at the Youth Proms will enable our golfers to really see how their support will help us to enable more young people to enjoy music – including those with special educational needs and disabilities,” said Sarah.

Tickets for the golf tournament are £50 per person (teams of up to four people accepted) to include refreshments, prize presentation and a farewell goodie bag and can be booked at Book My Place.

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Services For Education’s Golf Day promises to be a blast

About Services For Education:

An education and training charity based in Birmingham, Services For Education brings music and learning to life. Services For Education employs more than 200 staff delivering music tuition to children, and expert training and development to teaching and school support staff. It has annual income of £6.9m (Y/E August 2022). Part-funded by the Arts Council, England it also has its own fundraising and subsidised commercial operations.

Services For Education’s Music Service, one of the largest in the country, works with 98% of Birmingham schools and each year teaches music to nearly 32,000 children – as well as running 113 free ensembles. It provides 27,000 musical instruments free-of-charge so all children have access to playing and enjoying music together and its Youth Proms at Symphony Hall give 4,000 young musicians the opportunity to perform to an audience of more than 10,000. It also runs music schools, has a world music department, provides private music tuition to all ages as well as working with partners to deliver music and choral opportunities to disadvantaged and vulnerable groups. Its award-winning Online Music Educational Resource was completed and launched free to schools in 2021 to appeal to a young IT-connected audience attracted to learning online and to complement traditional tuition.
Services For Education’s School Support Service provides expert training and development to teaching and support staff in nearly 600 schools in the West Midlands and increasingly across England, to improve practice and ensure teachers are best equipped to respond to developments in curriculum and policy. As a leading provider of safeguarding education, Services For Education works with 400 schools delivering training in-person and on-line. It also delivers innovative programmes to support the physical and emotional health of children and young people through Health for Life and other community-based activity. servicesforeducation.co.uk