MusicLinks in Partnership with the Cartmel and Grange Local Area Partnership will be delivering workshops starting 27th February 2012

The workshops will take place in Grange, Lindale, Flookburgh and Backbarrow.

Grange over Sands, British Legion – Wednesday 29th February – 5.30pm – 7pm (8-11yrs)
Young Cumbria, Grange — Wednesday 29th February — 7-8:30pm (11+)
Flookburgh Primary School -Thursday 30th February at 5.30 -7pm (8-11 yrs)
Flookburgh Village Square—Thursday 30th February—7pm –8:30pm (11+) & 7- 8.30pm
• Use software to create and record your own songs and movies
• Take part in Live Music Improvisation, bring along your own
instrument if you have one !
• Help us to learn more about the kinds of things you’d like to see
happening for young people in your local area.
Where & When ?
Lindale Village Hall – Monday 27th February at 3.30pm – 4.30pm (8-11yrs)
4.30 – 5.30pm (11+)
Backbarrow – Leven Valley School Hall – Tuesday 28th February at 3.30pm
– 4.30pm (Yrs 4 & 5) & 4.30 – 5.30pm (Yr 6+)
The sessions will run once a week for four weeks in each location.

For more information please contact MusicLinks on: 015395 68165

The R Factor was recently named as the Best Green Public Sector Campaign at the Green Awards for Creativity in Sustainability in London.  The Awards were presented by Janey Lee Grace, BBC Radio 2 presenter on 18th November at the monumental 18th century church LSO St. Luke’s and served to highlight the crucial role played by communicating green issues, products and lifestyle choices through examples of best practice and effectiveness.

The Green Awards were launched in 2006, and were set up to recognise and reward creative work communicating the importance of Corporate Social Responsibility, sustainable development and ethical best practice in any sector and across any marketing discipline.

Over the last four years, the awards have become an established event on the global eco-calendar highlighting the best examples of green marketing and sustainability communications that have made a real difference in the fight against global warming.

The other campaigns shortlisted to compete as potential winners in this category were:
South Oxfordshire District Council Waste Collection Service (South Oxfordshire District Council)
School Travel Plans (London Borough of Bromley)
Forget me not, Scotland (Scottish Government)

A total of 137 schools took part in the R Factor which was launched last September by Cumbria County Council and its Resource Cumbria partners. More than 3,000 pupils took part in musical ‘boot camps’ led by Musiclinks where they penned tunes to encourage Cumbria to reduce, reuse and recycle. A panel of expert judges then selected six finalists to face the public vote. Over 5,000 votes were polled during finals week which ultimately saw Castle Park Primary School from Kendal and Kirkbride Primary School from Wigton being crowned winners and scooping the top prize recording session for their songs.

Once again we would like to thank the project partners, judges, our team of music leaders and all the children and staff who took part in this fantastic project.

The R Factor – a competition challenging Cumbrian primary school children to produce and record a jingle promoting waste reduction and recycling has been nominated for two awards.   The project is one of four finalists competing at the Local Authority Recycling Advisory Committee awards ceremony on October 7 for the title Best Communications Campaign of the Year. It is also one of the five shortlisted in the Local Government Initiative category of the Environmental Data Interactive Exchange (EDIE) awards in November .

According to Martin Allman, Cumbria County Council’s waste prevention manger, the R Factor: “made a big difference in boosting recycling rates and getting people thinking about reducing waste, and these nominations show this is being recognised at a national level.”

MusicLinks was also selected as one of five overall category winners, winning the Creativity & Culture section, so in addition to the £2,000 it also received a laptop and an exclusive one-to-one mentoring session with dotcom entrepreneur and founder of Lastminute.com, Martha Lane-Fox.

MusicLinks will use the grant to continue to fund mobile broadband access, ensuring even more isolated communities can benefit from internet access and develop digital skills.