Partner information
WWF are working with the following partners
English Chamber Orchestra
The ECO is one of the world's leading chamber orchestras, having performed in many countries, recorded over 1,200 works and played with the world's greatest soloists throughout its history. Benjamin Britten was the orchestra’s first Patron and a significant musical influence.
Through its extensive and inclusive creative outreach programme, Close Encounters, the ECO aims to inspire and nurture an understanding and love of the performing arts which transcends boundaries of age, background, ability, culture and geography.
The ECO Close Encounters team comprises musicians, animateur and actors whose skills and imaginations combine to design and lead its range of creative music and drama projects. Workshops take place in a variety of environments: schools, hospitals, clinics and concert venues across the South of England and as far afield as South Africa. Activities include creative work with children, masterclasses with students, schools’ concerts and A level composition workshops.
The ECO’s evening concert series in the Cadogan Hall prompted the initiation of a series of creative outreach workshops in schools throughout the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea. The workshops take place mainly in Primary schools and are inspired by and linked to music in the concerts, to which free tickets are offered to children, parents and staff. It is the development of this relationship which has led to the ECO’s participation in the unique collaborative performance of One Sun, One World.
Royal Albert Hall
Royal Albert Hall Learning & Participation sparks imagination, inspires creativity and opens new doors to new experiences and audiences.
Launched in 2003, Learning & Participation delivers a range of stimulating learning opportunities linked to the Hall’s calendar of events and the unique qualities of the building itself.
These include specially created tours, projects and school matinees, working with children, teachers, young people and families and especially those who would not otherwise come to the Hall.
The Learning & Participation team is committed to finding creative opportunities to involve pupils, teachers and the local community with the work of the Hall and to encourage them to be not only audience members for its variety of shows, but also to be performers on one of the most famous and iconic stages in the world.
The Royal Albert Hall is delighted to be a partner with Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea, Royal College of Music, English Chamber Orchestra and WWF for One Sun, One World. We are very excited to be involved and to offer not only the use of the Hall free-of-charge, but to also be able to offer additional funding to support work being carried out in schools across the borough. We are grateful to the Promenaders’ Musical Charities for their support of our element of this project.
Royal College of Music - London
The RCM’s Education and Outreach Programme, generously supported by British Gas, comprises of a wide range of activities, enabling the College to interact with young people at all stages of their musical development, starting at the age of three. Closely complementing the RCM mission to provide professional training at the highest international level, the programme involves specially tailored training for its participants, comprehensively preparing them for the diverse roles they will undertake as professionals.
The Programme has a strong relationship with the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea. At the heart of all its collaborative work is the shared aim of offering essential, up-to-date training for the RCM students while providing exciting, live music projects for young people in the Royal Borough.
The Education and Outreach Programme sits within the RCM’s Woodhouse Centre which provides current students and recent graduates with careers advice, diverse performing opportunities and other activities specially devised to broaden and enrich their professional skills. A world-leader in vocational support and advice for musicians, the Woodhouse Centre cultivates an ethos of enabling students to take initiative and actively recognise the many exciting futures open to them.
The Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea
The Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea supports many music and arts developments to enhance and enrich the lives of school students, residents and the community as a whole. It has a comprehensive music strategy to support schools and raise standards of music.
An example of the innovative work created to support schools is the unique wider opportunities instrumental programme that has been rolled out into the majority of Royal Borough primary schools resulting in an increased instrumental opportunity to over 500 school pupils. Alongside this initiative has been the successful Musicians of the Future programme in collaboration with the Royal College of Music (RCM), supported by EMI. This is now in its second year and has seen an increase in the number of students learning orchestral instruments in Royal Borough secondary schools.
One of the strands of the strategy is to develop effective partnerships with external agencies. The work to date has resulted in many successful collaborations. As a result many children from the Royal Borough schools have performed alongside professional players. An example of which is an event where children from all phases of school education perform bespoke song arrangements in various languages with makaton signing accompanied by accomplished players from the Royal College of Music.
The schools also have the opportunity to extend their pupils musical experiences by attending a variety of performances at prestigious venues and by taking part in high quality workshops provided by professional players and organisations.
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