Funding

Funding of the project is entirely dependant on grants and donations. The National Lottery Distribution Trust

Fund's contributions since 2002, has been the foundation on which the project was founded. Funding from

this source will run out at the end of 2008. The Nelson Mandela Metropole Municipality has been funding the

Youth Orchestral Experience for the past three years. Several individuals and smaller grants from organizations

have kept the project running, such as the Dutch Reformed Church (Western and Southern Cape).  Yale

Alumni Choir whose generous contribution of orchestral instruments in 2007, made it possible to make instruments

available to 60 young musicians. Johan Liebenberg's love of the cello saw to it that we now have a top class cello

on which to teach.

Contributors in kind to the ECPO Investment Project keep up our hopes:

Photography by Basil Brady & Deon Ferreira, Salvelio Meyer and Leonette Bower.

Website designer & photographer Marthinus Hattingh.

Journalists of Die Burger, The Herald, The Weekend Post, PE Express, Algoa Sun and RSG

No contribution is too small to assist in keeping the project afloat:

• R50 can buy the necessary oil or resin to keep a brass instrument or violin in good order
• R150 makes a one hour music lesson possible for 2-5 chiuldren
• R500 pays for the examination fees and necessary study material of one music pupil
• R900 pays for bus transport for 60 children and adults to attend a concert
• R450 pays for taxi transport to one youth orchestra rehearsal

Make a difference and donate now!  Contact us at the ECPO for our banking details.

To maintain what we are doing presently we need a minimum of R600 000.00 annually to pay three full time and

four part time teachers and another R250 000.00 to pay for additional workshops, presenting concerts in the community

for disadvantaged anddisabled, transport for music learners, teaching aids, instrument maintenance, etc.