Youth Music Benefit From WeGotTickets Christmas Support And Looks To 2011’s Pioneer Campaign
- WeGotTickets Raise Over £2,000 For Youth Music As Part Of Their Christmas 2010 Campaign
- Support Encompassed Online Calendar With News Of The Charity's Work And Competitions, With Optional Donations Made By Customers Throughout The Month.
- Partnership Carries On Into 2011 With WeGotTickets Supporting Youth Music Pioneers Project
09.00am, 11th January, London:- WeGotTickets' Christmas campaign for Youth Music raised over £2,000 for the charity as the Oxford based ticketing agent pledged 100% of all booking fees from Christmas Day sales, as well as facilitating optional donations throughout December to be made by customers.Awareness of Youth Music's work and their support from musicians via an online advent calendar gave customers the chance to see how the charity's various teams up and down the country transform the lives of disadvantaged children through music. The calendar presented photos and videos to see their work in action, a competition to win a Rankin print of indie band Cornershop, information on how to become a Youth Music Pioneer with the support of WeGotTickets, as well as the chance to hear about celebrity musicians who back the cause, such as Ian Brown and the Scissor Sisters.WeGotTickets has shown charitable support to a range of causes in recent years. Working as the official ticketing agent for Oxfam during their Oxjam season and raising over £12,500 in the last three years, donating almost £5,000 to War Child since 2009 and running site-wide appeals in 2010 for the likes of DEC Haiti Earthquake Appeal, Macmillan Cancer Support, Mind and the MS Society.The pioneering ticketing agency will continue to support the Youth Music charity as they embark on their Youth Music Pioneers project. This will be an ongoing scheme to encourage and support young people to open themselves up to even more performance spaces and opportunities. WeGotTickets will support this by selling tickets for all the fundraising events the project puts on through a Youth Music Pioneers branded ticketing portal, which will also carry the optional customer donation option. In addition to this they themselves will be donating 20% of the booking fee on all Youth Music Pioneers tickets sold back to the charity. WeGotTickets will also assist the scheme by giving advice on the wider issues of digital marketing and event promotion to those involved, including providing an online 'tool kit' to assist the recruitment of promoters from WeGotTickets' customers and clients.Graeme Murray, who led the Youth Music Christmas activity at WeGotTickets, said: "Firstly a huge thanks to our customers for their purchases on Christmas Day and additional donations made throughout the month. The advent calendar was a great way to really show the work Youth Music do throughout the year, around the country and with so many different young people and musical styles. It has been great to assist a charity focussed on youth arts in the light of funding cuts so many organisations are facing in 2011. We are looking forward to working with Youth Music on their Pioneers project, raising awareness and funds for the charity through live performances."Grania Hyde-Smith, Youth Music's PR and Media Strategy Officer, said: "It has been great working with WeGotTickets on this campaign and we are delighted with the money raised. This will go towards giving high quality music access and opportunities to some of the UK's most disadvantaged kids. We look forward to working with WeGotTickets and their assistance with the 2011 Youth Music Pioneers project."
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NOTES FOR EDITORSAbout WeGotTicketsWeGotTickets is the leading ticketing agency in the UK for small to medium sized venues and promoters and currently works with over 4,000 such organisations.WeGotTickets has made it possible for promoters of all manner of events to benefit from advance ticket sales and now sells more than 750,000 tickets a year for a wide range of events; from art events and underground restaurants, to traditional live music shows. Indeed to cater for the growing demand for comedy tickets the company recently launched WeGotComedy.com, the UK's only dedicated online ticket portal for comedy events.Since its launch WeGotTickets has consistently pushed for innovation, transparency and best practice across the ticketing industry, with many of the company's ideas becoming standard industry practice.The company's 10% maximum ticket commission rate has helped to lower fees across the business, whilst its pioneering paperless ticketing system has been a major factor in reducing the live music industry's carbon footprint. The company has also been involved in numerous initiatives to help develop the grassroots live music industry and in 2009 launched an online forum where the company's clients can network and share resources and knowledge in private.Over the years WeGotTickets has been proud to work on a number of special campaigns with charities such as Oxjam, Childline and Warchild, and regularly donates a percentage of their booking fees back to these groups. In 2009 the company launched a unique feature allowing ticket buyers to quickly and easily make a donation to a featured charity whilst purchasing tickets.Started in Oxford in the early noughties, the company was set up as a result of the founders being unable to sell advance tickets for one of their concerts at a venue that lacked a box office. Originally selling through their music merchandise website www.OxfordMusic.net, the WeGotTickets online box office was fully launched in 2002, selling tickets for The Zodiac (now O2 Academy) in Oxford and other venues.www.wegottickets.comAbout Youth MusicYouth Music is the leading UK charity using music to transform the lives of disadvantaged children and young people. We support and develop exemplary music provision at every stage of a young person's development, whether it's the first time a mother and baby make music together, or a talented teen's debut at the Royal Albert Hall.Youth Music has transformed the landscape of musical opportunity in the UK. Since 1999, we've reached over two million children and young people through all types of music; both in and out of school. Music has the power to build confidence, broaden horizons and raise aspirations. Our music programmes allow vulnerable young people to find their way, take charge of their lives and unlock their hidden potential.Youth Music Ambassadors:Ian BrownJarvis CockerGoldieLittle BootsTom Chaplin of KeaneTom Morello of Rage Against The MachineSir James Galway OBEDame Evelyn Glennie About Youth Music PioneersYouth Music Pioneers is a celebration of live music, opening up performance spaces for young musicians and raising funds for the charity Youth Music.Supporting young talent is at the core of Youth Music's work and with the generous support of WeGotTickets, Youth Music Pioneers will debut in 2011.For updates either 'like' the Youth Music Facebook page (www.facebook.com/youthmusicuk) or sign up to the e-newsletter (www.youthmusic.org.uk/subscribe )Youth Music is the leading UK charity using music to transform the lives of disadvantaged children and young people.If you run a venue, a particular live music night, or are a musical act yourself, and want to sign up as an official Youth Music Pioneers partner, email info@youthmusic.org.ukPress ContactKayleigh Watson, Name PR