- One-Stop-Shop For Voluntary Music Promoters And The Public - WeGotTickets Pledges 20% Of Booking Fees To Help Voluntary Sector -
WeGotTickets, the leading ticketing agency in the UK for small to medium-sized venues and promoters, have partnered with Making Music, the UK’s largest umbrella arts association representing the voluntary music sector, to create a new ticketing and listings portal.
The new site will showcase and sell tickets for the many and varied events promoted by Making Music’s 2,800 member groups, whose number include choirs, orchestras, music clubs, samba groups and barbershop choruses, and represent over 200,000 volunteer musicians and music lovers.
With over 10,000 events promoted by Making Music members each year the site will also provide an invaluable resource for the public who want to know what concerts or workshops are taking place in their area.
In addition to providing an easy one-stop solution for voluntary music groups looking to promote and sell tickets for their events, WeGotTickets will donate 20% of the booking fee to Making Music, ensuring that much needed money is fed back in to the voluntary music sector.
Furthermore WeGotTickets will make available their unique donation module, allowing ticket buyers to make an extra contribution to selected causes at the time of purchase, to help raise funds for Making Music’s projects.
Following the launch of the new portal and in the run-up to Christmas, WeGotTickets and Making Music will collaborate on a series of marketing initiatives aiming to boost the profile of members’ events and the voluntary music sector.
Said Sarah Rogers, Making Music’s Head of Membership Services, “Making Music is delighted to launch this initiative with WeGotTickets. Its service is perfect for our voluntary music organisations which will benefit hugely from this simple, cost-effective and comprehensive solution to selling tickets for their events – it will help to reduce the administrative burden and broaden their reach to audiences at the same time, and they are already seeing great results. We look forward to a fruitful collaboration as the service continues to develop.”
Said Dave Newton, WeGotTickets co-founder, “A substantial proportion of our existing client-base of 3000 venues and promoters work at the grass-roots level in their respective sector - be that contemporary rock/alternative music, folk, jazz, comedy or theatre. And so the opportunity to connect our service to the voluntary music sector is something we are relishing. Our proven client and customer support track record coupled with our marketing expertise will enhance the offering of the Making Music members even further.”
About WeGotTickets
WeGotTickets are the leading ticketing agency in the UK for small to medium sized venues and promoters.
Working with over 3000 venues and promoters to sell over 500,000 tickets a year, the company’s 10% maximum ticket commission rate has helped to lower fees across the business.
Over the years WeGotTickets have pioneered several ticketing concepts, such as paperless ticketing and the easy reallocation of tickets that are now accepted practice throughout the industry.
With the addition in 2009 of a unique donation module, WeGotTickets continue to push for innovation, transparency and best practice across the ticketing industry.
Started in Oxford in the early noughties, the company was set up as a result of the founders being unable to sell advance tickets for one of their concerts at a venue that lacked a box office. Originally selling through their music merchandise website www.OxfordMusic.net, WeGotTickets was fully launched in 2002 when they created an online box office for The Zodiac (now O2 Academy) in Oxford.
www.wegottickets.com
About Making Music
Making Music represents and supports amateur and semi-professional music groups of all genres throughout the United Kingdom and provides a comprehensive range of artistic and administrative services and development and training opportunities. Making Music also lobbies on behalf of our members to national and local government and other agencies
Making Music’s 2,800 member groups represent over 200,000 musicians and music lovers throughout the UK. Collectively, they present over 10,000 concerts each year to an audience of 1.6 million people. They spend £13 million per year on professional artist and £1 million with music publishers, as well as employing composers, venues, designers, staging suppliers and instrument manufacturers. Making Music's proudest claim is that in many communities a Making Music concert is the only form of live music.
The new site will showcase and sell tickets for the many and varied events promoted by Making Music’s 2,800 member groups, whose number include choirs, orchestras, music clubs, samba groups and barbershop choruses, and represent over 200,000 volunteer musicians and music lovers.
With over 10,000 events promoted by Making Music members each year the site will also provide an invaluable resource for the public who want to know what concerts or workshops are taking place in their area.
In addition to providing an easy one-stop solution for voluntary music groups looking to promote and sell tickets for their events, WeGotTickets will donate 20% of the booking fee to Making Music, ensuring that much needed money is fed back in to the voluntary music sector.
Furthermore WeGotTickets will make available their unique donation module, allowing ticket buyers to make an extra contribution to selected causes at the time of purchase, to help raise funds for Making Music’s projects.
Following the launch of the new portal and in the run-up to Christmas, WeGotTickets and Making Music will collaborate on a series of marketing initiatives aiming to boost the profile of members’ events and the voluntary music sector.
Said Sarah Rogers, Making Music’s Head of Membership Services, “Making Music is delighted to launch this initiative with WeGotTickets. Its service is perfect for our voluntary music organisations which will benefit hugely from this simple, cost-effective and comprehensive solution to selling tickets for their events – it will help to reduce the administrative burden and broaden their reach to audiences at the same time, and they are already seeing great results. We look forward to a fruitful collaboration as the service continues to develop.”
Said Dave Newton, WeGotTickets co-founder, “A substantial proportion of our existing client-base of 3000 venues and promoters work at the grass-roots level in their respective sector - be that contemporary rock/alternative music, folk, jazz, comedy or theatre. And so the opportunity to connect our service to the voluntary music sector is something we are relishing. Our proven client and customer support track record coupled with our marketing expertise will enhance the offering of the Making Music members even further.”
About WeGotTickets
WeGotTickets are the leading ticketing agency in the UK for small to medium sized venues and promoters.
Working with over 3000 venues and promoters to sell over 500,000 tickets a year, the company’s 10% maximum ticket commission rate has helped to lower fees across the business.
Over the years WeGotTickets have pioneered several ticketing concepts, such as paperless ticketing and the easy reallocation of tickets that are now accepted practice throughout the industry.
With the addition in 2009 of a unique donation module, WeGotTickets continue to push for innovation, transparency and best practice across the ticketing industry.
Started in Oxford in the early noughties, the company was set up as a result of the founders being unable to sell advance tickets for one of their concerts at a venue that lacked a box office. Originally selling through their music merchandise website www.OxfordMusic.net, WeGotTickets was fully launched in 2002 when they created an online box office for The Zodiac (now O2 Academy) in Oxford.
www.wegottickets.com
About Making Music
Making Music represents and supports amateur and semi-professional music groups of all genres throughout the United Kingdom and provides a comprehensive range of artistic and administrative services and development and training opportunities. Making Music also lobbies on behalf of our members to national and local government and other agencies
Making Music’s 2,800 member groups represent over 200,000 musicians and music lovers throughout the UK. Collectively, they present over 10,000 concerts each year to an audience of 1.6 million people. They spend £13 million per year on professional artist and £1 million with music publishers, as well as employing composers, venues, designers, staging suppliers and instrument manufacturers. Making Music's proudest claim is that in many communities a Making Music concert is the only form of live music.
