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Raising and distributing funding directly to where it is needed most on the UK Jazz scene. ​​ Grassroots Jazz is a registered charity (1197449) Registered Office: 7 Waterloo Road, Epsom, KT19 8AY. [...] Funds have been raised through social media posts, and through (to date) three raffles which have been sponsored by various musical instrument companies - Fibonacci guitars (Worcester Park), Headwind Music (Bristol), Dawkes Music (Maidenhead). There has also been support from Ronnie Scott’s Jazz club in the form memberships as raffle prizes. Also tickets from Scarborough Jazz Festival, Cambridge Jazz Festival and Swanage Jazz Festival. There have also been private donations of instruments, [...] In February 2022 Nigel Price, one of the UK's foremost jazz guitarists, wrote to the Culture Secretary Nadine Dorries with the backing of 68 other Parliamentary Jazz Award recipients, including Dame Cleo Laine, to plead for more funding in a bid to avert disaster in this vital part of our culture. It fell on deaf ears. You can read that exchange here... ​