WeGotTickets Partners with Nordoff Robbins for Christmas Appeal

After 5 successful years supporting Oxjam, WeGotTickets is turning its attention to another really great musical cause – music therapy charity Nordoff Robbins.Nordoff Robbins is the UK's leading provider of music therapy services, delivering over 50,000 music therapy sessions every year to some of the UK’s most vulnerable and isolated children and adults.This Christmas, WeGotTickets’ Christmas appeal is raising money for Nordoff Robbins 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 their gift by enabling tax-efficient giving.This festive project follows WeGotTicket’s successful 2011 Christmas Appeal, where £3,473was raised for Action Aid’s Kenyan radio project Muziq Speak.WeGotTickets is no stranger to raising funds for good causes. For the last 5 years, WeGotTickets has been working with Oxjam, where £6,200 was raised from a mixture of booking fees (50% of WeGotTickets’ booking fees for all Oxjam events) and customer donations. Thanks to the generosity of this year’s Oxjam patrons, customer donations rose to £3,700 compared to £3,556 in 2011. These donations were received on top of the ticket price, which could be given on all Oxjam events, as well as any event on sale in October. This broke WeGotTickets’ record for the largest amount of customer donations given to any charity project.ENDSAbout 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.About Nordoff RobbinsNordoff Robbins is a music therapy charity, dedicated to transforming the lives of vulnerable children and adults. We deliver over 50,000 music therapy sessions per year to people with a range of challenges such as autism, dementia, mental health problems, stroke, brain injury and life-threatening or terminal illnesses, such as cancer. All of these people have one uniting factor - music dramatically improves their quality of life.We carry out our work in our own music therapy centres and units, in schools, day centres, hospitals and care homes and we collaborate with a number of partners including Great Ormond Street Hospital.Music therapy is a specialist use of music to help people in many different ways – for some it has physical benefits, for others emotional or social ones and helps many to communicate. It can help people feel more motivated, social and self-confident.nordoff-robbins.org.uk