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Funding award will see return of music-making to shmu

shmu has been awarded £30,000 in funding from Creative Scotland’s Youth Arts Access Fund to reinstate music programmes for young people throughout the organisation.

The new ‘Making Waves’ project at shmu will support a range of opportunities, including one-to-one and group music-making for young people aged 11-25.

Date added: 23/02/2021

shmu-led consortium awarded £300k

A consortium bid led by shmu on behalf of Culture Aberdeen has secured £300,000 of funding from Creative Scotland’s Culture Collective programme, which aims to provide an opportunity for organisations to explore and test new models of cultural engagement and participation and to learn from each other.

Date added: 18/02/2021

shmu-led consortium awarded £300k

Date added: 18/02/2021

shmuTRAIN now recruiting for employability courses

shmuTRAIN are now recruiting for Employability Fund courses which start in February 2021. Unlike the accompanying photo (which was taken pre-COVID-19), we can’t have groups in our building due to restrictions, so we'll be delivering courses online.

Our courses are for young people aged 16-25 living in Aberdeen City or Shire and will support you to get prepared and skilled-up ready for any employment, training or education opportunities that come your way.

Date added: 26/01/2021

shmu AGM

We are holding our AGM at 7pm on Thursday the 17th of December and would love for you to join us.

This year's event will be held online on Zoom due to current restrictions in place due to coronavirus and will be followed by a short event to thank all of our incredible volunteers and to acknowledge their essential contribution to our organisation.

Date added: 17/12/2020

Spring Edition of Tilly Tattle

Work will be starting very soon on the Spring edition of the Tilly Tattle.

Date added: 14/12/2020

Double Platinum for HMP Grampian Creative Media Unit

Huge congratulations to our HMP Grampian participants in this year’s Koestler Awards. Shmu submitted 21 entries from the Creative Media Unit and received 10 awards - including 2 Platinum Awards!

The Koestler Awards is an annual event which celebrates the arts in criminal justice – with prisoners from all over the UK submitting creative work.

Date added: 18/11/2020

shmuFM celebrates Kindness Day UK on Fri 13/11

Kindness Day UK is a nationally-recognised day for the celebration of kindness in society and day-to-day life, it also encourages individual acts of kindness.

We'll be celebrating kindness in our communities on lots of our shmuFM shows this week, with some very special shows going out on Friday (13th November). Stay tuned to our social media for details each day!

Date added: 10/11/2020

Celebrate Book Week Scotland with shmu

Shmu are joining forces with Aberdeen City Libraries to celebrate Book Week Scotland this week.

Date added: 09/11/2020

shmu awarded funding from new Creative Communities Programme

shmu is one of nearly 40 organisations around Scotland to have been awarded funding from Inspiring Scotland’s new Creative Communities Programme, which will support the development of grassroots creative and cultural initiatives.

Date added: 03/11/2020