WeGotTickets to Fund Kenyan Radio Project for ActionAid
WeGotTickets to Fund Kenyan Radio Project for ActionAid
- WeGotTickets Christmas appeal to fund Muziq Speak radio project
- WeGotTickets official ticketing partner for new ActionAid Live initiative
1st December 2011, London:- WeGotTickets will on December 1st launch a Christmas appeal with anti-poverty charity ActionAid set to fund Muziq Speak, a community radio station in the Korogocho district of Kenya. WeGotTickets is also proud to be the official ticketing partner of the recently unveiled ActionAid Live, the world’s first ever emergency music network. As a result of last year’s Christmas Appeal, WeGotTickets raised £2k for Youth Music and this year hopes to raise the entire £5k price tag for Kenya’s Muziq Speak programme. Run in conjunction with the local partner Koch FM, the community radio station aims to address issues of poverty and social exclusion in the region through information sharing, education and communication. UK gig goers can generate income for the charity appeal in two ways; through a donation box when purchasing tickets on the WeGotTickets site throughout December or by buying tickets on Christmas Day, during which 100% of all booking fees will go to the Christmas appeal. Customers can also choose to Gift Aid their donation, maximising the impact by enabling tax-efficient giving.An Awareness Advent Calendar will also feature across the site in this year’s Christmas appeal, each day linking WeGotTickets’ home page to a new facet of what ActionAid does. Last week ActionAid announced ActionAid Live - the world’s first ever emergency music network. Backed by stars such as The Wombats,Everything Everything and Huw Stephens the initiative has also proudly been supported by their official ticketing partner WeGotTickets.Should a humanitarian disaster strike WeGotTickets will launch an ActionAid Live portal as part of an overall support scheme which will include a promoter’s option to donate a percentage of their own takings to the charity and nominate events. 20% of all booking fees for Action Aid Live events will go to the charity and, for the duration of any appeal, customers across the site will be given the opportunity to add a donation when buying their tickets. WeGotTickets also will be helping to recruit event organisers to sign up with ActionAid and hold a fundraising event.Said Graeme Murray, WeGotTickets’ fundraising coordinator, “We’re really looking forward to getting involved in a project this year with such direct and tangible results. Muziq Speak is a truly noble cause and gives us another opportunity to work with our ActionAid Live partners to improve life for those struggling during this festive season”Said Stuart Fowkes from ActionAid “WeGotTickets is a brilliant way for promoters of all sizes to make the most of their events, and we're really excited that they're able to back one of our cultural projects in Koch FM. Now people can do their Christmas shopping for gig tickets and help us make a real difference to the lives of poor young people in Kenya, so everyone wins.” About WeGotTicketsWeGotTickets is the UK’s leading paperless ticketing agency. Launched in 2002, WeGotTickets works with over 4,000 event organisers placing it in the top five ticketing agencies in the UK.WeGotTickets has made it possible for organisers of events of all shapes and sizes to benefit from advance ticket sales, and now sells more than 750,000 tickets a year; from art events and underground restaurants to traditional live music and comedy shows and festivals.Since its launch, WeGotTickets has consistently pushed for innovation, transparency and best practice across the ticketing industry, with many of the company’s ideas becoming standard industry practice.The company’s 10% maximum ticket commission rate has helped to lower fees across the business, whilst its pioneering paperless ticketing system has been a major factor in reducing the live music industry’s carbon footprint.Over the years WeGotTickets has been proud to work on a number of special campaigns with charities such as Oxfam, Macmillan, Youth Music and Warchild, and regularly donates a percentage of their booking fees back to these groups. In 2009 the company launched a unique feature allowing ticket buyers to quickly and easily make a donation to a featured charity whilst purchasing tickets.WeGotTickets is now proud to be a full member of STAR (Society of Ticket Agents and Retailers) and is fully behind the organisation’s new fraud prevention kite mark.www.WeGotTickets.comAbout ActionAidActionAid’s vision is a world without poverty and injustice in which every person enjoys the right to a life with dignity. ActionAid improves people’s lives every day. But we know that’s not enough. So we work relentlessly to change whatever is keeping them trapped in poverty. This means we have a better chance of ending poverty… for good.We work with and support the poorest and most vulnerable people to fight for and gain their rights to food, shelter, work, basic healthcare and a voice in the decisions that affect their lives. We also champion poor people’s rights through international campaigns on food rights, HIV & AIDS and education as well as providing emergency relief during conflicts and after natural disasters.Working with more than 2,000 partners worldwide and in over 40 countries, ActionAid's fight against poverty has reached over 10 million people across Africa, Asia and the Americas. At ActionAid we take advantage of almost 40 years of knowledge and experience in fighting poverty. We don’t impose solutions, but work with communities over many years to strengthen their own efforts to throw off poverty.About Muziq SpeakMuziq Speak in Nairobi, Kenya seeks to establish a community radio station in the Korogocho district. Run in conjunction with our local partner, Koch FM, the mission of this project is to provide a platform for the community to address issues of poverty and social exclusion through information sharing, education and communication to promote their social, economical and political wellbeing.The project will establish and equip a recording studio, providing a centre in which young people can be trained in music recording, production and marketing and will act as a platform for new and aspiring artists to be able to develop their skills and make themselves heard.This will be accompanied by skills building workshops in which members of the community will be able to come together to discuss the problems that affect their community and work with government ministries to develop sustainable solutions to the chronic unemployment rates which affects area like Korogocho, making them prone to crime and youth violence.Above all, Muziq Speak aims to allow the people of Korochogo to harness their creativity to find solutions to poverty and to change their lives for the better, for good. About ActionAid LiveAction Aid is the world’s first ever emergency music network, backed by music stars including The Wombats, Everything Everything, Chapel Club, Cancer Bats and Radio 1’s Huw Stephens. ActionAid Live is a nationwide network of bands, musicians, promoters and venues primed to spring into action and raise funds the next time a humanitarian emergency strikes in one of the world’s most vulnerable areas.Bands and promoters can register at www.actionaid.org.uk/live from 22 November and will then be able to access resources including template posters and flyers, guides on how to put on a successful fundraiser and banners and badges for use on their websites and social media spaces. They will also be able to receive updates on ActionAid’s humanitarian emergency work and will be among the first to know when the charity is responding to the next disaster.In an emergency situation:
- £50 could feed an entire family for a fortnight.
- £100 could provide temporary shelter for two families – all critical, lifesaving support in the first days and weeks after an emergency.