Music and sport

It’s Friday and as we close our Small Charity Week blogging, we’re focusing on fun — music and sport. How many Saturday’s start with a game of football, a swimming lesson or a music lesson? For some people it’s harder to access these equally desired activities and this is where these small charities come in.

Open Up Music’s mission is to make orchestras accessible to young disabled people. They are unique among SEN/D arts organisations in their sharply defined and clearly articulated focus on orchestras. The benefits of making music are varied and well documented, but for some young people, playing a conventional instrument is simply not possible. One strand of their work focuses on providing the “Clarion” a new, easy to use accessible musical instrument that can be played independently with any part of the body, including the eyes.

We supported OpenUp Music to select a new CRM, to enable them to build strong relationships with their national network of musicians, partners, schools and supporters. We built process maps to define the core journeys people, and data, take when they interact with OpenUp Music. This has formed the basis of their development of a comprehensive CRM solution, and strengthened their approach towards responsible data management.

“It was a pleasure working with DOT PROJECT. They took time to understand our organisation and our values, and were very quick to understand our requirements for a CRM system to meet the needs of our growing organisation. They provided a clear project plan and timeline and consulted throughout the process, ultimately providing a clear recommendation of a CRM system that will meet our organisational needs and our budget.”

World Sports Ministries is transforming lives through the power of sport. They believe sport is a universal language that can cross all social, racial, cultural and religious barriers, powerfully uniting people in a language they can speak. Ultimately, they believe that sport has the power to transform communities, bring hope and restoration, inspire others

World Sport Ministries wanted to understand how they could use technology to make it easier for them to coordinate activities, engage young people in their sports programmes and make sure staff felt energised and confident when using their digital platforms. Our Digital Health Check enabled the organisation to identify where digital tools could be used more effectively and identified their need for a CRM platform. Of working with us, they said,

“When you are trying to make sense of the complex world of digital tech and your organisational needs, it can be overwhelming and time consuming. Together Annie and Cat are strategic and highly skilled. They focus on what matters to bring simplicity with grace and patience — exactly what we needed to untangle the ‘spaghetti’ and prevent us making very expensive mistakes. Highly recommended.”