Festival International et Académie

Members, Friends & Donors

Forecast for the 2023 & 2024 Festival: the music and weather will be HOT with the promise of revived ticket sales after recent Covid squalls… but lots of inflated costs and reduced public subsidy…
The big questions is: is there a chance of donations?

Ways you can support Musique Cordiale

Become a Member, Friend or supporter in 2023

– or sponsor an event or musician
– or make a donation to Musique-Cordiale! We welcome donations of any amount at any time.

Donate to the non-profit Loi de 1901
Musique-Cordiale association (FR)

(any amount, card, direct debit & PayPal)

Donate to The Musique-Cordiale Trust
Registered English Charity (GB)

(any amount, cards, PayPal, direct debit or CAF account)

OR you can also just send your donation or make a pledge – in Euros or GB pounds – direct
(online banking, cards, your favorite digital Pay wallet, CHAPS or by cheque.
We prefer online bank transfers, minimising and transaction fees: our address & account details are HERE)

Or pay via PayPal Donate




THANK YOU!

If you are a French or EU tax-payer (selected counties only), please ask for a certificat du don. to offset part of your donation against tax.

If you are a UK tax-payer, please also complete a GiftAid declaration. allowing British taxpayers to add Gift Aid (25%) to their contributions as Donors or Friends (in GB pounds), meaning that we receive the donation and also reclaim the tax paid on the income that paid for it. Please contact us or go to www.musique-cordiale.org for information and to support The Musique-Cordiale Trust.

If you are a tax-payer in other European countries, please contact us for details of possible tax-deductibility. Annual subscriptions & regular giving: You can also pay for membership or become a regular Friend or donor by setting up an annual or monthly prélevement in Euros or a direct debit in GB pounds. Please contact us to set this up. You can also set up a direct debit in GB Pounds from a UK bank account online HERE


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PLEASE SUPPORT our 2023-24 Essential & urgent fund-raising & recovery campaign!

Admirable Aspirations – a 19-year record of valuable achievement in Pan-European musical and cultural exchange & education – a Labour of Love – Modest Means 

If you value Musique-Cordlale for its unique international festival and its orchestral academy for young musical talent – or its choral & singing courses, concerts and events in France and Britain, we need your help. Even after 19 years, it cannot continue without your support, especially after 2020-22 and Covid-19. The French association (which has run our festivals) & The Musique-Cordiale Trust, the British charity which supports it, need you for this campaign. Between us, we must hit a £20,000 GBP (about €23,000 euros) annual target for EXTRA FUNDS before next summer – and preferably earlier to give us the resources to explore new ideas, plan ahead – and make savings – in difficult circumstances  as  we build anew in 2023.

Thank you to those who have already helped by donating, pledging or raising money or by arranging events and inviting your friends to help. A lot of work has gone into trying to attract funds each year from public bodies and charities (in Britain and France, in particular) as well as individual supporters. WHY NOT BECOME A FRIEND or DONOR? Or SPONSOR an event or musician?

A huge amount of year-round, voluntary work is involved to organise all our musical activities. Most of this is done by a team of dedicated volunteers. Although supported and valued by its participants and audiences, both locally and from all over Europe, Musique Cordiale NEEDS TO SUPPLEMENT ITS INCOME from ticket sales, subscriptions, some hard-won local funding in the face of shrinking public budgets and the generosity of a few private donors ad trusts. It is an enormous struggle to cover the costs of bringing over 100 musicians and singers from across the continent to the Pays de Fayence and accommodating and sustaining them – as well as working them hard to achieve great music together. It was also expensive to organise and then have to cancel the 2020 festival and to stage our only musical events with no box office income in 2020. Even in 2021,  when we did stage a week of concerts, Musique-Cordiale in Kent, we could operate only in England without access to our usual supporters, ticket sales and popular musical fund-raising events in France. But we are proud to have held mini-festivals in Kent in 2021 and 2022 and to be able relaunch the Festival in France in 2023 – with your help! Please SUPPORT US: details HERE

gift-aid-logo*Unless you are already a member, your contribution as a Friend is split between a payment for membership of the French association (€30/£30 per person) and a donation. ++All membership payments will be automatically transferred to the French association. GiftAid / tax-deductibility cannot be claimed on the membership element.   ** non-employed musician and student memberships will be paid in 2021 by The Musique-Cordiale Trust. Please send us an email to take advantage of this offer. We welcome and value our donors however small a contribution you can afford. Thank you!

Note: If you set up a recurring direct debit (from your card, PayPal or bank) before 31 December 2016, we held the cost of being a member or Friend for you through 2022. The above rates apply to all new members & Friends and to all renewals from 1 October 2023 except that exchange rate changes mean that we had to increase the membership fee in GB pounds to £30 (or 35€) from 1 January 2022 – and cost of living increases have hit us hard in 2023, while we have held prices of tickets since 2018. You can join at any time of year; subscriptions apply for a year from the date they were initiated.  (Season passes and concert tickets for the Festival are available when the box office each Spring).

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