About the East Anglian Traditional Music Trust

The East Anglian Traditional Music Trust:

• Promotes awareness of and participation in the folk music traditions of East Anglia

• Is a registered charity (no. 1082774) established in 2000

• Is based on over twenty years previous work in traditional music development

• Is run voluntarily by co-directors Katie and John Howson

• Has a management team (Board of Trustees) who meet regularly throughout the year

• Runs community projects in East Anglia

• Provides a programme of regular music workshops and evening classes

• Runs an annual Traditional Music Day festival

• Publishes a newsletter four times a year

• Commissions and publishes research and resources

• Provides concerts, lectures, workshops and other events for a variety of other organisations

To find out more about the Trustees, staff, patrons and volunteers of the East Anglian Traditional Music Trust, click here.

EATMT projects have been funded by:

Adnams Charity

Alfred Williams Charitable Trust

Arts Council England (National Lottery)

Awards For All (National Lottery)

Britten-Pears Foundation

Colyer-Fergusson Charitable Trust

Community Champions

Foundation for Sport and the Arts

Hervey Benham Charitable Trust

King's Lynn & West Norfolk Borough Council

Mid Suffolk District Council

Norfolk County Council

South Norfolk District Council

Suffolk Coastal District Council

Suffolk County Council

Waveney District Council

Stowmarket Town Council

We have worked in partnership with:

Suffolk Artlink

DanceEast

BBC Radio Norfolk

English Folk Dance and Song Society

Action for Communities in Rural England (Suffolk)

Experience Corps

Creative Arts East

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Stowmarket Choral Society

Moreton Folk Festival (Essex)

Age Concern (Suffolk)

Suffolk Libraries and Heritage

Essex Sound Archive

Rig-a-Jig-Jig (Norfolk Music History group)

Southwold Museum

True's Yard Museum

Museum of East Anglian Life

Roots of Norfolk

We have completed commissions for:

National Trust

Horniman Museum

Victoria & Albert Museum

Suffolk Coasts & Heaths Project

South Norfolk District Council

Churches Conservation Trust

Suffolk County Council Positive Ageing

Suffolk Tourism Partnership

We have acted as consultants for:

Arts Council England

Eastern Angles Theatre Company

BBC TV and Radio

Anglia TV

Folk Arts England

We are members of:

English Folk Dance & Song Society

Folk Arts England

Association of Festival Organisers

Voluntary Arts Network

Suffolk Association of Voluntary Organisations

Suffolk Folk

Essex Folk Association

Contact us:

info@eatmt.fsnet.co.uk

Tel: 01449 771090

The Old Stables, Museum of East Anglian Life, Crowe Street, Stowmarket, Suffolk IP14 1DL.

To receive quarterly newsletters through the post, please send 4 second-class stamps to the above address.

We also run a Friends’ scheme, which enables you to become more involved in the Trust’s work if you wish, and and provides the Trust with some additional income to maintain and expand its programme of events and publications.