welcome to the Scotland Ukulele Project
We are delighted to be currently working with:
the scotland ukulele project
Ran by Sarah Farren, aka Ukulele Saz, the Scotland Ukulele project was founded in April 2021.
Since that time, the SUP has been growing and blossoming with style, networking with a wide variety of community groups and organisations.
So far, we have been working with LGBT Health and Wellbeing, Maslow’s (refugee & asylum seeker organisation), MOSS After School Service, Universal Connections Mobilise Music Project(Youth Centre), Wise Women, and started our very own weekly jam session on a Tuesday! We also are exploring a new partnership with Kenny’s Music, a local music shop in Glasgow, as well as working closely with Village Music in East Kilbride, another local music shop.
As our ukulele kingdom is growing up here in Glasgow, as is the need for some help within our community. We are looking for more volunteers to help with the daily running of the SUP, including dealing with our email inbox, networking with organisations, and organising ukulele workshops, events and ukulele donations.
We are also on the look out for an additional ukulele teacher(s), who are passionate about delivering enthusiastic and inclusive ukulele beginner workshops to a wide variety of communities of different ages, abilities, and from all walks of life.
If you’d be interested in joining team SUP, and working alongside Saz, please get in touch, we’d LOVE to hear from you!
Check out more of our work below, the communities we work with, and see what’s next on the agenda for the SUP!
Sarah Farren
SouthSide Strummers
From October, meet us in The Corona in Shawlands. From 8.30-11pm, join us for a ukulele jam. Here you’ll be welcomed by a lovely community of ukulele players of all ages and abilities. Bring your ukulele and join in!
Want to really brush up on your ukulele skills? Join Ukulele Saz in her weekly classes that run before the jam each Tuesday
Beginners 6.15-7.15pm
Intermediate 7.15-8.15pm
Total beginner? We run 8 week beginner blocks to take your from rookie to rockstar, and will spark some confidence in you to jam with our jam group every Tuesday!
Rainbow Ukes
We meet each Wednesday in Bonjour from 6.30-8pm.
We also run beginner blocks of lessons in the LGBT Health and Wellbeing offices. These blocks are ran by members of the Rainbow Ukes group, so you feel even more welcomed when joining the jam.
We were initially funded by the National Lottery Community Fund who helped us get up and running, allowing us to deliver beginner workshops and cover our venue in Bonjour, in turn helping support another LGBT+ business.
Music SHop Partnerships
We have a NEW partnership with Kenny’s Music, right in the heart of the city centre of Glasgow. Join us here for one off events/workshops, to purchase a new ukulele, or even some classes (coming soon.)
Mobilise Music
We hope to be able to continue this when the current funding runs out.
Maslows
Office Workshops
MOSS After school Care
We have received funding!
To do what?
What does this mean?
We are an Arts Award Centre
What is an Arts Award?
A range of unique qualifications that supports anyone aged up to 25 years old to grow as artists and arts leaders. In England, Arts Award is managed by Trinity College London and Arts Council England.
What do you currently offer?
We can support children and young people to work towards their Discover and/or Explore Awards. Children and young people collect evidence in an individual arts log of their experiences of participating in arts activites, researching artists and/or arts organisations and their work, sharing their arts discoveries, creating a piece of art work and identifying what they have enjoyed and/or acheived and their communication of this to others. If we can support your school, your student or organisation in working towards an Arts Award please get in touch for more information