Youth music project delivering learning and activities, based in Reddish, Stockport. StoMP Reddish StoMP Reddish primarily delivers learning and activities around a live band set-up, focussing on song arrangement and live performance. A comfortable, ground floor access venue, on site parking, close to public transport. Important Information 2025 / 2026 When Tuesdays during school term time, 6.30pm - 8.30pm Where St Mary's Halls, St Mary's Drive, Reddish SK5 7AX Google Maps Senior Music Leader Darren Poyzer e-mail Venue Manager Mandy Rigby Volunteers Ben Pelling / Summer Poulter Safeguarding Jan Gough e-mail Sessions Dates We re-open after Summer on Tuesday September 8th then run every Thursday up to and including Thursday December 8th 1/2 TERM We are closed on Tuesday October 27th for one week Registration For young people to join us, we require two short forms to be completed please : 1) a permission form to be completed by parents / carers 2) a 'personal preferences' form to be completed by each young person attending These forms can be found and submitted online > here < Subs / Donations At the beginning of each term we request a subs donation of £5 per evening for a 2 hour session, if possible to be paid at the start of each term as a single payment of £60 for the term (includes discount), or alternatively £5 cash per session. Regular Contact / What's App After registering with us, we provide access to a parents / carers What's App group and contact telephone number, made available to ensure we have a way to communicate important messages, changes to programming etc.

We run regular, weekly youth music sessions in different locations, each with a music leader and volunteer, chosen for the job due to their engagement in music performance, education, youth and commuity work. Drums Drumming activities are available with an electronic kit at our Offerton venue on Thursday evenings. These sessions are ideal for absolute beginners and those with some basic knowledge of chords and music theory. Initially available as 1-1 tuition, learners are encouraged at the earliest opportunity to learn alongside other young people, thereby giving and recieving encouragement from other learners and young musicians. Those beginning their music learning may feel more comfortable at our: Offerton Youth Music Group on Thursdays Confident young musicians may prefer to join our: Reddish StoMP live band sessions on Tuesdays

We run regular, weekly youth music sessions in different locations, each with a music leader and volunteer, chosen for the job due to their engagement in music performance, education, youth and commuity work. Guitar Acoustic and electric guitar activities are available at our Offerton venue, on Thursday evenings. These sessions are ideal for absolute beginners and those with some basic knowledge of chords and music theory. Initially available as 1-1 tuition, learners are encouraged at the earliest opportunity to learn alongside other young people, thereby giving and recieving encouragement from other learners and young musicians. Those beginning their music learning may feel more comfortable at our: Offerton Youth Music Group on Thursdays Confident young musicians may prefer to join our: Reddish StoMP live band sessions on Tuesdays

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Youth music project delivering learning and activities, based in Offerton, Stockport. Offerton Youth Music Club Now under the administrative wing of St Alban's Church, Offerton Youth Music Club delivers instrument tuition, small group working and music technology. The club runs weekly during school term times from 6.30pm to 8.30pm on Thursdays, and is situated in a comfortable, ground floor access venue, with on site parking, close to public transport. VOLUNNTEERS WELCOME If you'd like to work with young people, helping and inspiring them to make music in a relaxed setting, please get in touch, we'd love to meet you :-) Important Information 2026 When Thursdays during school term time, 6.30pm - 8.30pm Where St Alban's Church, Offerton Ln, Stockport SK2 5AF Google Maps Senior Music Leader Darren Poyzer e-mail Venue Manager Rev Marie Flint Safeguarding Jen Sadler e-mail Volunteers Tony Doherty / Ben Pelling / Summer Poulter Session Dates 2026 We re-open after Summer on Thursday September 10th then run every Thursday up to and including Thursday December 10th 1/2 TERM We are closed on Thursday October 29th for one week Registration For young people to join us, we require two short forms to be completed please : 1) a permission form to be completed by parents / carers 2) a 'personal preferences' form to be completed by each young person attending These forms can be found and submitted online > here < Subs / Donations At the beginning of each term we request a subs donation of £5 per evening for a 2 hour session, if possible to be paid at the start of each term as a single payment of £60 for the term (includes discount), or alternatively £5 cash per session. Regular Contact / What's App After registering with us, we provide access to a parents / carers What's App group and contact telephone number, made available to ensure we have a way to communicate important messages, changes to programming etc.

We run regular, weekly youth music sessions in different locations, each with a music leader and volunteer, chosen for the job due to their engagement in music performance, education, youth and commuity work. Music Technolgy Music Technology activities begin with basic loops and beats, and develop to include full song production, arrangement, recording and mastering. These lessons are ideal for absolute beginners and those with some basic knowledge of chords, scales and music theory. Initially available as 1-1 tuition, learners are encouraged at the earliest opportunity to learn alongside other young people, thereby giving and recieving encouragement from other learners and young musicians. Music Tech activities take place at our: Offerton Youth Music Group on Thursdays

We run regular, weekly youth music sessions in different locations, each with a music leader and volunteer, chosen for the job due to their engagement in music performance, education, youth and commuity work. Music Theory Basic music theory activities are available at our Offerton venue, on Thursday evenings. These sessions are ideal for absolute beginners and those with some basic knowledge of chords, scales and music theory. Initially available as 1-1 tuition, learners are encouraged at the earliest opportunity to learn alongside other young people, thereby giving and recieving encouragement from other learners and young musicians. A more advanced music theory based project is available, primarily with the view to supporting school courses and qualifications, and this is usually delivered as an extra session, via a parental permission granted, online video link.

New updates for our Offerton Youth Music Club friends and family. Offerton Family News On this page of our website, we provide news updates and information for our extended family of parents and carers. Offerton Youth Music Club - May 2024 Skylight Fund Some excellent news! Offerton Youth Music Club about to be recieve funding from Skylight Community Fund, covering 12 months during 2024 / 2025, and once the paperwork is complete, we will formally announce this and re-brand our publicity accordingly. Subs Please note that subs / donations are now payable at £60 to cover the Summer term (April to July), or alternatively each session attended @ £5 a night. Bank Account Payments direct into our bank account are the best way to pay in. Our account information is: Name: Stockport Music Project Sort code: 05 09 33 Account no: 42955731 Gigs & Events Our Reddish StoMP group will be performing live: Saturday July 13th (times approx 11am meet / home 4pm ish) Reddfest (Reddish) What's App To ensure we all have instant access to information (eg cancellations, young people can't attend etc), we have a What's App chat group for parents / carers. You will need to download the What's App app to your phone / mobile device, and from there you can also install a Windows PC app. To join the group from your phone please click: https://chat.whatsapp.com/DOykGFz5Tk1GX4pcke6bVV New Website We hope you like our new website, but please note it's still a work in progress; in particular please note the following pages: Offerton This page promotes our new weekly session a St Alban's Church. We have a fabulous learning space and hopefully many years of fabulous music learning and activities. Social Media This page has links to our social media pages which are central to our publicity and information sharing. Please do join us, follow and like our posts and pages, and help us promote StoMP in a positive light. Documents This page has the permission forms you completed when joining StoMP ... if you'd like to change any information, add health notifications, change photo permissions etc, please use these forms. Here you will also find our policies which like the website, are being reviewed and renewed. Thanks and all good things, Darren :-)

We run regular, weekly youth music sessions in different locations, each with a music leader and volunteer, chosen for the job due to their engagement in music performance, education, youth and commuity work. Piano Piano Keyboard activities are available at our Offerton venue, on Thursday evenings. These sessions are ideal for absolute beginners and those with some basic knowledge of chords, scales and music theory. Initially available as 1-1 tuition, learners are encouraged at the earliest opportunity to learn alongside other young people, thereby giving and recieving encouragement from other learners and young musicians. Those beginning their music learning may feel more comfortable at our: Offerton Youth Music Group on Thursdays Confident young musicians may prefer to join our: Reddish StoMP live band sessions on Tuesdays

Your Name (parent / guardian / YP 16 +)* Email Phone* On the day contact number if different from above? The following young person is available (with permission where required) to perform with Stockport Music Project at the following 2024 events:* Sunday November 24th 4pm - 8pm @ The Spinning Top, Stockport Friday November 29th 4pm - 8pm @ Christmas Lights, Reddish Saturday December 7th 11am - 4pm @ Christmas Lights, Cheadle Are there any time issues that may prevent or help with participation? Do you have any questions / concerns? Submit Reddish StoMP Special Event Forms Permission / Event forms can be found on this page. Please either complete and submit them here online, or print and bring to the next session. All session and special event dates can be found > here <

We run regular, weekly youth music sessions in different locations, each with a music leader and volunteer, chosen for the job due to their engagement in music performance, education, youth and commuity work. and more ... There are of course many other instruments that young people may wish to learn to play, and with separate rehearsal spaces available, we can accomodate a wide range of music activities, choice of music and instrumentation. Initially available as 1-1 tuition, learners are encouraged at the earliest opportunity to learn alongside other young people, thereby giving and recieving encouragement from other learners and young musicians. Those beginning their music learning may feel more comfortable at our: Offerton Youth Music Group on Thursdays Confident young musicians may prefer to join our: Reddish StoMP live band sessions on Tuesdays We encourage - but do not require - young people to perform, in the first instance at our informal 'open evenings', and furthermore at any public events we are invited to perform at. We also work with associate partners organising community events in Reddish playing a lead role in the Reddish Events Team: www.reddishevents.com

We run regular, weekly youth music sessions in different locations, each with a music leader and volunteer, chosen for the job due to their engagement in music performance, education, youth and commuity work. Singing Singing activities are available at our Offerton venue, on Thursday evenings. These lessons are ideal for absolute beginners, and are ideal for confidence building and finding your own voice. Initially available as 1-1 tuition, learners are encouraged at the earliest opportunity to learn alongside other young people, thereby giving and receiving encouragement from other learners and young musicians. Those beginning their music learning may feel more comfortable at our: Offerton Youth Music Group on Thursdays Confident young musicians may prefer to join our: Reddish StoMP live band sessions on Tuesdays