WeGotTickets Busts Christmas Record with Nordoff Robbins

• WeGotTickets raises £4500 for Nordoff Robbins in record Christmas appeal

For their 2012 Christmas Appeal, WeGotTickets raised an incredible recession-busting £4433.25 for music therapy charity Nordoff Robbins, which represents the ticketing website’s most successful Christmas appeal to date.Of that figure, £3,087 was raised through customer donations throughout December, via a WeGotTickets donation box at the point of purchase on the site. Further to this, 100% of booking fees for tickets purchased on Christmas Day were donated by WeGotTickets, adding £724 to the total. In addition, most customers also chose to Gift Aid their donation, raising £622.25 for the appeal.This festive project follows WeGotTickets’ successful 2011 Christmas Appeal, where £3,473 was raised for Action Aid’s Kenyan radio projectMuziq Speak.As well as a favourite of WeGotTickets, Nordoff Robbins is a charity known to many music lovers, as the UK's leading provider of music therapy services. It delivers over 50,000 music therapy sessions every year to some of the UK’s most vulnerable and isolated children and adults.  Awareness of the charity’s work was heightened by the Advent Calendar featured on WeGotTickets.com throughout the campaign, highlighting a different aspect of Nordoff Robbins’ work each day up to Christmas Day.Nordoff Robbins joins a range of charities that WeGotTickets works with on a regular basis, such as Macmillan Cancer support, War Child and Youth Music. For the last five years, it has also been working with Oxjam, where £6,200 was raised in 2012,breaking its record for the largestamountofcustomerdonations given toanycharityproject.Said Graeme Murray, WeGotTickets’ fundraising coordinator "We are really pleased that WeGotTickets’ customers have supported our Christmas campaign for Nordoff Robbins insuch a big way. Music really can transform people’s lives and our customers seem to agree, helping us to beat last year’s total by nearly £1000!”Susie Baxter, Fundraiser at Nordoff Robbins said “Thank you so much to everyone at WeGotTickets for their incredible support – and a big thank you too to all WeGotTickets’ customers who chose to donate to Nordoff Robbins. All the funds raised will help us deliver hundreds more music therapy sessions to some of the UK’s most vulnerable and isolated individuals.“ *****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 ticketsales, 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 regularlydonates 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.http://www.wegottickets.com/*****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 wecollaborate 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.http://www.nordoff-robbins.org.uk/