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About the National Music Council
General General
Mission Statement Mission Statement
Aims Aims


General

The National Music Council sits at the centre of a complex network of national music organisations, and is a key organisation that exists to promote the interests of the music industry as a whole. Membership is drawn from all areas of the music business and is open to all organisations with an interest in music and its development in the UK: professional, voluntary and amateur; subsidised and commercial; creative and educational. The strength of the Council lies in the number and diversity of its members.

In 2002 the Council was delighted to welcome Dame Cleo Laine as its President.

The National Music Council is a member of the National Campaign for the Arts,
Making Music, and a signatory to the Music Manifesto
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Mission Statement

The National Music Council seeks to celebrate and promote the value and enjoyment of music, which contributes, in all its forms, to the cultural, spiritual, educational, social and economic well-being of the United Kingdom.

Aims

The Council's work is driven by three key aims:
1. To provide networking opportunities for Members and other stakeholders and to facilitate and improve the exchange and sharing of information of relevance to their concerns.
2. To provide a debating forum for Members and other stakeholders and the mechanisms for issues to be prioritised and, when appropriate, pursued and resolved.
3. To provide the means for informing and influencing decision-makers and those other stakeholders upon whom the music industry depends, and for raising the public profile of music.

Behind them lie several important guiding principles:
1. That the work of the Council should complement its members' own activities.
2. That the Council should recognise and promote the vital inter-relationship that exists between all industry sectors and musical genres and the mutual benefits to be derived from bringing organisations together.
3. That the Council should operate as both leader and facilitator and work on behalf of its membership as a whole.
4. That the focus of the Council should become more external without jeopardising the services required by members.
5. That the Council should be flexible enough to be able to respond to the developing concerns and needs of its membership and those of its other stakeholders, including:
bullet related organisations not in membership
bullet the public
bullet politicians and decision-makers
Structure

The Executive Committee has three annually-elected officers – Chairman, Deputy-Chair and Honorary Treasurer. Out of a total of 11 places on the Executive Committee, another four are automatically given to the Council’s core funders – BPI, MCPS, PRS and Musicians’ Union. The Music Education Council has a place on the NMC's Executive Committee (and vice versa) and the remaining places are nominated by the membership annually and, if a vote is necessary, elected by ballot at the Annual General Meeting.

The Council holds meetings for all its membership at least twice a year – an Annual General Meeting, and meetings at other times when appropriate and according to the subject matter being discussed.

NMC Constitution

This document is available here (Click here to download the Constitution).

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