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Removed
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This charity was removed from the register on 5 Feb 2018
Public benefits
The benefits that flow from BMS's purposes include: - regular affordable access to high quality professional chamber music - access to live professional music for disadvantaged people (including elderly people, young people in areas of deprivation, people in prison or healthcare environments) - training and mentoring to aspiring young musicians
from Northern Ireland These benefits are demonstrated through: - feedback from audience members, artists and participants - published reviews of concerts - audience demand There is no harm flowing from BMS's purposes. BMS's beneficiaries are: - the general public living in, or visiting Northern Ireland, specifically (but not exclusively) in Belfast - a private benefit to trustees may arise from our programme of ongoing training in good governance, finance etc. Through this training trustees gain skills and experience which are transferable to other settings. These benefits are incidental and necessary to ensure the benefit is provided to our beneficiaries
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Belfast Music Society is the longest-standing promoter of international chamber music and musicians in Northern Ireland. It runs an annual programme of work that includes an International Festival of Chamber Music, the Northern Lights Mini-Fest (a series featuring local young professional musicians), a Summer Celebrity Concert, and education,
training and outreach activities. In 2013/2014, we expanded the programme with two new elements: - 'Night Music', a series of contemporary chamber concerts featuring local/Irish artists and composers (in partnership with Moving on Music); and - 'Chamber Babies', a series of live classical concerts for mums and babies (designed in partnership with the Crescent Arts Centre, Belfast).
... [more] [less]The charity’s classifications
- The advancement of education
- The advancement of the arts, culture, heritage or science
Who the charity helps
- General public
- Preschool (0-5 year olds)
- Youth (14-25 year olds)
How the charity works
- Arts
- Cultural
- Education/training
Charitable purposes
The objects of the Society shall be to promote, by charitable means only, the knowledge and appreciation of chamber music to the general public in Northern Ireland, through the organisation and presentation of recitals and any other appropriate musical events that the Board of Management (‘the Board’) may determine.