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MOBO Trust and Help Musicians enhance financial help to performers

The MOBO Help Musicians Fund hopes to reach out to more musicians than ever before.

MOBO
  The partnership has pledged £100,000 to help musicians

It has been announced that MOBO Trust and Help Musicians have expanded their partnership of the MOBO Help Musicians Fund to offer enhanced support packages to empower artists with 1:1 business guidance, health support, and funding for creative output.

2020 MOBO Help Musicians Fund hopes to reach more musicians than ever before by growing its investment to £100,000.

Support

The MOBO Trust, established in 2016, is the charitable arm of the MOBO Organisation, and has linked in partnership with Help Musicians, the 99-year-old charity for musicians, to offer support across artists' creative output, business skills and health and wellbeing.

Having run three hugely successful rounds of the MOBO Help Musicians Fund since 2017, resulting in 50 projects receiving support, this year's Fund grows from a £60,000 to a £100,000 investment into artists creating music of black origin.

MOBO and Help Musicians have also examined the further needs of musicians and bolstered the package of support to empower musicians to drive forward their businesses at a crucial time.

Awards

The 2020 MOBO Help Musicians Fund will offer awards of £3,000 towards creative output, plus 1:1 business advice sessions tailored to each awarded person's individual needs and delivered via experienced music industry professionals, as coordinated by ThinkMusic.

The Fund will also offer 1:1 health consultations with British Association for Performing Arts Medicine professionals, covering all aspects of a musician's health, including physical and mental health needs and specialist referrals where required.

Full guidelines and application forms for the MOBO Help Musicians Fund will be available from June 29th on the Help Musicians website.

Hope

Kanya King, Founder, MOBO stated: "In times of trouble we have always looked to music and our musicians to provide a sense of relief, express our feelings and emotions and to share messages of hope. In these challenge times, we could really do with some hope.

This is why MOBO are proud to continue our partnership with Help Musicians as we go further than ever to support our musicians as they face the uncertainty of a Post COVID-19 world and what it means to be a working artist. We stand in unity to support them"

2020 MOBO Help Musicians Fund hopes to reach more musicians than ever before by growing its investment to £100,0004BR

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Claire Gevaux, Director of Programme, Help Musicians said: "Help Musicians is incredibly pleased to not only continue our partnership with MOBO but also to expand the support package offered by the MOBO Help Musicians Fund into something that contributes to a musician's personal sense of balance.

We believe that having access to business knowledge has a unique ability to empower artists, and when combined with the right health and wellbeing support, plus the funds to create, musicians have a stronger opportunity to thrive in their careers as well as their lives."

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