The next deadline for grant applications is 1st January 2015 and the new application forms are now available on the website. It is planned to notify all applicants of the result of their application by 1st March 2015. If you would like any further information or a paper copy of the form(s) and guidance notes please write to us at the following address:
The Roger David Burrows Music Fund,
C/O The Burrows Family,
17 Squires Lane,
Martlesham Heath,
Ipswich,
Suffolk. IP5 3UG
This promises to be an interesting and intriguing evening with Thomas taking us on a trip to India by container ship to retrace the steps of a 19th-century missionary, through his talk with slides.
What must it have felt like travelling as an early missionary by boat from your familiar home meadows to unknown foreign fields? Were did they go and are they still remembered over a century on? Why not come along and find out how this fascinating journey evolved.
The talk takes place:
Saturday 5th April 2014
7.30pm
at St Michael’s Church Centre,
Martlesham Heath IP5 3PL
£2.50 admission at the door
There will be light refreshments and a raffle.
All welcome
Information about the The Roger David Burrows Music Fund will also be available at the evening.
(St Michael’s Church Centre is fully accessible)
In January 2014 The Roger David Burrows Music Fund awarded ten grants to groups and individuals of all ages for a variety of musical items and activities, including for musical instruments, singing sessions, insurance and courses.
Those who received grants were:
Twinkletoes Pre-school,
Martlesham Brass,
Fun for Young,
Otley Under Fives Pre-school,
Home Start Suffolk Coastal,
Eine Kleine Sax Music,
West Suffolk Voluntary Association for the Blind,
Children’s Theatre Company,
Funtastic Futures
and an individual.
We wish them all lots of enjoyment with their music-making and look forward to seeing and hearing how they get on in the future.
The Roger David Burrows Music Fund had a stall at Martlesham Community Council’s Christmas Fair in November 2013 at St Michael’s Church Centre, Martlesham Heath. Christmas decorations kindly donated to the Music Fund and seasonal plants both sold well. Thank you to those who supported us.
An Entertaining Evening of Tall Tales
By Members of Speak Easy at Martlesham
Tuesday 19th November 2013
At St Michael’s Church Centre, Martlesham Heath on the evening of 19th November 2013 the audience enjoyed an interesting and entertaining evening of imaginative tall tales told by members of Speak Easy at Martlesham Speakers’ Club. A princess in a pumpkin in Rushmere, holidays drifting on the ocean’s current with only flotsam and jetsam for company, an iced bun grabbing grandmother, an upset camel, meeting the Queen and the Beast of Martlesham, along with many others, made for some fascinating tales to intrigue the audience. When Brian, the compere, asked which tales were based on fact and which on fiction at the end of the evening, the audience were rarely unanimous in their decision, providing a humorous conclusion!
The Roger David Burrows Music Fund invited members of Speak Easy to provide the tall tales and would like to say thank you to all the members who supported the Music Fund by taking part as well as a thank you to all who attended and helped with the evening.
In the summer of 2013 The Roger David Burrows Music Fund was very pleased to award 16 grants to a wide variety of groups and individuals of all ages, toddlers to adults. Grants went towards a range of music related items and activities from orchestral music and instruments to providing music therapy.
This first round of grants were given to:-
Thank you to all the recipients of grants who have sent acknowledgments, information and updates on how their musical activities are progressing.
We wish them all every success and enjoyment in their music-making activities.
The next deadline for grant applications is 1st January 2014 and the new application forms are available on the website. It is planned to notify all applicants of the result of their application by 1st March 2014 . If you would like any further information or a paper copy of the form(s) and guidance notes please write to us at the following address:
The Roger David Burrows Music Fund,
C/O The Burrows Family,
17 Squires Lane,
Martlesham Heath,
Ipswich,
Suffolk. IP5 3UG
Many of you may not know about the Roger David Burrows Music Fund, which is now a recently set up charity trust.
We have set up the music fund in memory of Roger starting with the money that he left. With this fund we hope to inspire all abilities, adults and children, in music making by offering small grants to groups or individuals.
Roger started to play the violin at the age of six when he was at Primary School. He went on to play the violin in school groups and in the South Suffolk Youth Orchestra.
Over the years he has helped adults and children. While still at school he helped at a music group in Woodbridge and volunteered with Out and About (a local organisation that helps children with disabilities).
He worked for several years as a carer with a local housing association looking after adults with learning difficulties but after developing epilepsy he went to work with his uncle and mother at Home Meadows Nursery Ltd where his interest in plants developed.
During all of this time he played and took part in many concerts and events arranged by his family for charities both playing violin and singing. He was also a member of Hollesley Church Choir for several years.
For over ten years he had been playing the violin with the Melton Folk group and was in his element when performing at their many events during those years, which included Burns Nights, fetes, garden parties, barn dances and concerts.