WeGotTickets Teams Up With UK Festivals To Support Youth Music Pioneers
- WeGotTickets support Youth Music via exclusive competition with Field Day and Underage Festival for VIP passes and goodie bags
- WeGotTickets website campaign planned to raise money for special Youth Music Pioneers project
1st June 2011, London:- One of the UK’s top five ticketing agencies, WeGotTickets, continues its support of Youth Music with a campaign to raise funds for one of its projects, by teaming up with Field Day and Underage Festival and launching the Youth Music Pioneers initiative.Youth Music Pioneers is an ongoing celebration of live music, inspiring innovative music performance events for young musicians while helping to transform the lives of thousands of young people across the country, developed by the Youth Music charity. The charity is also launching the Youth Music Pioneers’ ‘Be The Business Handbook’, a resource for young people providing advice on how to put on gigs and events, which is available from their website (www.youthmusic.org.uk/pioneers) now.Customers who purchase tickets via WeGotTickets to the festivals and make a donation of at least £1 towards Youth Music at point of purchase, will go into a prize draw to win two money-can’t-buy prizes. Field Day festival goers will have the chance to win VIP passes and the Underage Festival winners will receive an exclusive goodie bag.In addition to the competitions, WeGotTickets will run a site wide campaign for Youth Music Pioneers, in order to fund a project which sees them work with 5-12 year olds at a Short Stay School for those with extreme emotional difficulties. 10 pupils will work over 10 weeks to create new music, inspired by linking to other groups of children and music leaders around the world via Skype and internet broadcasts.Steven Endersby, Project Manager at WeGotTickets, said: "It’s amazing to have Field Day and Underage Festival offering prizes to our customers, and we hope the donations our customers make to enter those competitions - along with our site wide donation - will make enough money to fund the Youth Music Pioneers campaign at a Short Stay School. It will be great to see WeGotTickets, our customers, and our client's donations and support make a difference to disadvantaged children through this project. We’re pleased to be supporting a charity that advocates how live music and performance can positively impact and enrich young lives around the UK."Tiru Thiruvilangam, Community Fundraiser at Youth Music, says “We are extremely excited about having another opportunity to work with WeGotTickets after our successful Christmas campaign. With this campaign, we hope to be able to raise enough money to deliver a fantastic new project that will help young people facing the risk of social exclusion. By working with Eat Your Own Ears on Underage and Field Day festivals, it’s going to be a great summer for our supporters, gig-goers, and young people alike.”-Ends-
About Youth Music
Youth 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.
About WeGotTickets
WeGotTickets 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, Youth Music 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.com