 L-R Clare Salters, Chair of the OHMI Trust, Rachel Wolffsohn, General Manager and Tom Shakespeare, Presenter of the Radio 4 Charity Appeal. We would like to extend our thanks and gratitude to the incredible Radio 4 listeners who took the time to listen, share and donate to our recent BBC Radio 4 Charity appeal.
As a result, we’ve raised an incredible £11,181 which will help match disabled musicians with the adapted musical instruments and enabling equipment they need to participate fully in music-making. We’ve also raised the profile of our small charity at national level. Our services are in high demand. Before the appeal went out, we had a waiting list which included five people waiting for bagpipes, one for the clarinet, two for flutes and one for a French Horn support. Some of these individuals had been waiting for nearly a year, often at a very challenging point of their lives. We know that two on our list were recovering from stroke and have no doubt that playing an adapted instrument would support their recovery. Thanks to the appeal, we will be able to purchase the new instruments and equipment needed and have cancelled out our existing waiting list. The appeal has also generated a number of enquiries from a new audience of musicians and music teachers so our work will continue unabated. The BBC Radio 4 Appeal was voiced by Tom Shakespeare and was broadcast on 28th January 2024. We were delighted with Tom’s support as he’s not only a social scientist, bioethicist and leading voice on disability issues but a familiar voice on Radio 4. In his delivery, Tom recounted the story of Maria who was born without a left hand, Rowan who uses her right hand to read Braille music whilst she plays, and Kaila, whose Hemiplegic Cerebral Palsy is no barrier to playing the Bagpipes. “It’s really important that that disabled people can play musical instruments. I spend all my time listening to BBC Radio and I want to hear disabled classical musicians, jazz musicians, folk musicians, the whole lot! So that’s why I support OHMI and why I want them to be available to everybody.” Tom Shakespeare, social scientist, bioethicist and advocate for disabled people. Listen to OHMI’s BBC Radio 4 Appeal. If you would like to know more about the impact of the appeal please click here. Comments are closed.
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