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.

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

A page dedicated to all those who have supported and continue to support our work, including funders and associate partners, parents and carers, music leaders and volunteers. Thank You :-) It's important to thank and credit not only our funders and local councillors, but those who have supported us this project over many years, those who continue to support us in many ways, including of course parents and carers of our young people who contribute a small subs fee to the project every half term, funders, volunteers, event organisers and all those who share news of our work via social media, newsletters, written and spoken word. A few honorary mentions therefore to: Andy Burns Badly Drawn Boy Co-op Academy Broadhurst Darren Flannery Dave Townson Dylan Flint FAB Music, Stockport George Gibson Gwen Flint Jan Gough John Barratt Kamey McNamara Karen James Manchester Airport Community Trust Fund Mandy Rigby Paul Cargill Phillip Gwynne Reddish Events Team Re-Dish Reddish Rev Marie Flint Rising Stars CIC Skylight Fund, Stockport Homes St Alban's Church, Offerton St Mary's Church Reddish Stephen Beswick Stockport Local Fund The Teenage Market Tracy Ryan Trisha Plant Will Lewis We are sure there are many others we could add to this list and hope you'll let us know if we've missed someone!

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. Bass Guitar Bass 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, 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

Keeping parents and guardians up to date with the latest Reddish group Stockport Music Project information and updates. Reddish Family News On this page of our website, we provide news updates and information for our extended family of parents, guardians and young musicians. Reddish StoMP July / August 2024 Term Dates Please note that aligned with school terms, StoMP will be closed for the summer term, re-opening in September. Subs Please note that subs / donations will soon be announced for Autumn term. Will anyone who still owes for sessions in previous terms please make a payment as soon as you can. 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 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. If anyone from Reddish would like to join us, please do! 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'd like to say thank you to all those who have supported Stockport Music Project over many years ... Thank you, Donor Name We are so grateful for your generous donation of £0. Your donation number is #1000. You’ll receive a confirmation email soon.

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. Electric Guitar Electric guitar lessons are available at our Offerton venue, on Thursday evenings. These lessons are ideal for absolute beginners and those with some basic knowledge of 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. Confident electric guitarists may prefer to join our Tuesday live band sessions at our venue in Reddish.

Important documents, policies and registration forms for our youth music project based in Stockport. Forms / Documents If you have any enquiries please do contact us by e-mail: stockportmusicproject@gmail.com To join the group, please complete these two short online forms: Register to Join / Permissions Form (1) Parents / Carers (online) Register to Join (2) Young Musicians (online) For your information our working practice is guided by a set of policies including the following that we make publically available: Safeguarding Policy (pdf) Privacy Policy (pdf) Constitution (pdf)

Thank you for supporting our work delivering youth music activities and learning :-) Donations - thank you :-) Please do support our work with young people, providing safe spaces for music learning and activities in Offerton and Reddish, and in support of future development. Frequency One time One time Weekly Weekly Monthly Monthly Yearly Yearly Amount £5 £5 £25 £25 £50 £50 £100 £100 £250 £250 £500 £500 Other Other 0/100 Comment (optional), name and contact info please if you'd like public thank you appreciation :-) Please click to make a donation £5

We are a youth music project based in Stockport, delivering music learning and activities for young people age 11-18. Welcome Best described as a 'musical youth club' Stockport Music Project provides creative safe space learning opportunities and activities for all abilities, primarilly young people age 11-16. By arrangement, we are happy to extend the age range to age 18. We run two regular weekly sessions: Reddish StoMP group: Tuesdays Offerton beginners group: Thursdays Our music leaders and volunteers chosen for their committment to professional development, inclusion, youth and community work. If you are, or know, a young person who would like to join us, please have a look through the site; if you'd like more personal contact to begin with, have questions maybe, please e-mail and we'll aim to reply without delay. First Point of Contact Your first point of contact is our Project Manager: Darren Poyzer, e-mail: stockportmusicproject@gmail.com Please register young people with us via the two short online forms On behalf of our team, thank you, Darren :-)