| 1997 |
- Granted registered charity status on 24 July 1997
- Formed with support from the Leonard Cheshire Foundation, new workshops begin with Leonard Cheshire Home residents and Oaklands special school
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| 1998 |
- Increases number of participants from 15 to 250 in the first 15 months
- Clients perform in ‘2 Days Later with Jools Holland‘ on 7 September 1998 at The Queen’s Hall Edinburgh, a concert organised by the Drake Music Project and Leonard Cheshire Foundation
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| 1999 |
Launches new training and CPD programme for musicians |
| 2000 |
- X-perience project creates a multi-cultural cross-media performance for participants aged 8-55 at the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art
- Moves its Edinburgh HQ from Central Halls, Tollcross to Edgar Hall, Chesser Avenue
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| 2001 |
Executive funded project My Life tours Scotland and reaches over 900 special school pupils |
| 2002 |
Launches flagship education programme Switch ON to Music which delivers special school music education in East and South Ayrshire, East Renfrewshire, North Lanarkshire and West Lothian |
| 2003 |
The Bridges performance project involves people with learning difficulties in a programme of music, art, film and drama leading to a final public performance at the Carnegie Hall, Dunfermline. |
| 2004 |
Funding secured from the Scottish Executive Education department to support three years of work in special schools |
| 2005 |
A highly successful concert takes place at Glasgow Royal Concert Hall as part of North Lanarkshire’s Annual Spring Concert |
| 2006 |
National survey of music in SEN schools shows 14% with no music input at all/major gaps in provision/ Soundbeams present but not used in many schools |
| 2007 |
- Move into new premises at Craigmillar Social Enterprise and Cultural Centre (SPACE) in January
- Musician mentoring programme recognised in Scottish Arts Council report ‘A Sound Investment‘ as an example of ‘effective and innovative’ training practice
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| 2008 |
- 10th Anniversary Concert ‘Now We are Ten‘ at Queen’s Hall in June with over 40 performers and an audience of 400
- Moving Music collaboration with Ashcraig Special School, Scottish Chamber Orchestra and composer Howard Moody later nominated for a British Composer Award
- Awarded Flexible Funding 2009-11 from Scottish Arts Council
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| 2009 |
- Scottish Arts Council Inspire Funded Figurenotes pilot launches a revolutionary notation system to Scotland
- Three projects (MusicSPACE, Switch ON to Music and a collaboration with Horsecross Arts) independently assessed as part of our Scottish Arts Council Flexible Funding agreement and each awarded ‘Excellent’ ratings
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| 2010 |
- The Proclaimers visit Drake Music Scotland to officially open our new recording studio funded by Big Lottery Fund People’s Millions.
- Approved CPD Provider status awarded by Learning & Teaching Scotland
- Presents the UK’s first Figurenotes conference at City Halls Glasgow on 26 November
- Becomes one of only twenty organisations in the UK to be chosen by PRS for Music Foundation to commission a piece of music as part of the London 2012 Cultural Olympiad
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