Paul Hamlyn Foundation

Paul Hamlyn Foundation awarded Get Sorted funding in 2007-2008.

The Paul Hamlyn Foundation awarded funding to Get Sorted for “core funding to build capacity by creating an arts and learning manager post and training existing staff in a three-year transition period” and this is reported in the Foundations 2007-2008 report.

 The training was aimed at diversifying each tutors range of skills so that anyone of them could teach any instrument to a certain standard. Also the foundation helped fund a series of team building activities.

Another important outcome of the funding was the development of the Get Sorted IT infrastructure. Databases and tracking systems for pupils, schools and tutors were developed which help Get Sorted keep track of how many young people and institutions use our services.

But perhaps the most important outcome of the funding was that it allowed Genya – Get Sorted Guru and Executive Director – pass some of the management workload over to a dedicated project manager, Graham, which allowed the project to grow and become fully developed.