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Charles Hallé was a visionary. In 1858 he created a people’s orchestra that Manchester immediately took to its heart, making world-class music accessible to everyone. More than 160 years on, we continue to champion our founder’s belief that music is for everyone through our work both on and off the concert platform.

Thanks to the support of individuals, companies and trusts we achieve extraordinary things. Our far-reaching work includes:

• Welcoming an audience of 250,000 concert-goers each year.
• Connecting with 57,000 young people through  our pioneering Education programme.
• Inspiring 10,000 school children across  each year at our Hallé for Youth Concerts.
• Making music with 21,000 participants through our ‘Come and Play with the Hallé’ project.
• 1,500 young people taking part in our flagship ‘Adopt-a-Player’ and ‘Meet-a-Musician’ schemes in schools across all 10 boroughs of Greater Manchester.
• 250 young musicians receiving weekly, top class music tuition through our youth ensembles – a project unique in the UK in that our youth ensembles are entirely free to join.
• 166 years of making music in Manchester.
• A large archive charting our rich heritage and Manchester’s history since 1858, with an embedded community heritage project.
• Hallé Connect – our community and education team who deliver 65+ creative and music projects annually.
• 4 Associated Choirs and Youth Orchestras.
• Upwards of 10 Workplace and Community based choirs
• 1 World-class Orchestra.

Who benefits?

As a registered charity, your support as an individual, company, trust, or foundation, benefits every part of the Hallé family and makes what we do possible. Beneficiaries include :

• The Hallé’s gifted orchestral players and the conductors and soloists who work with them. They create the excellence and quality associated with the Hallé’s concerts and performances as well as defining our unique Hallé sound.
• The members of our Youth Orchestra, Youth Choir, Youth Training Choir and Children’s Choir. They are the next generation of Hallé musicians and represent some of the most talented young players from across the region.
• The children who sing, play and listen to the Hallé at its concerts for schools. They have an opportunity that they will never forget to experience first-hand the power of the orchestra.
• The participants in Hallé Education projects from, schools, care homes, hospitals and community groups. They benefit from music’s power to help, heal, bring people together and cross boundaries.
• The Hallé’s audiences in Manchester, across the UK and worldwide. They experience the Hallé live on stage and share in the exhilaration of live performance.
• The quarter of a million people each year who see the Hallé live in concert and the global audience who listen to our award-winning recordings. They share in the Hallé’s music, wherever they are in the world.
• You: our supporters. Whether you give as a company, a trust or an individual and whether you give a £1 or £10,000, you will know that you help make this happen. The Hallé will welcome you as a vital part of its family.