# Tayside Young Fiddlers

## Details

- **Country:** Scotland
- **Charity number:** SC032244
- **Status:** Active
- **Legal form:** Unincorporated association
- **Registered:** Sept. 25, 2001
- **Register:** https://www.oscr.org.uk/about-charities/search-the-register/charity-details?number=SC032244


## Contact

- **Address:** 18 Westfield Road, Broughty Ferry, Dundee
- **Postcode:** DD5 1ED



## Activities

**Activities:** &#x27;It carries out activities or services itself&#x27;

**Purposes:** &#x27;the advancement of the arts, heritage, culture or science&#x27;

**What the charity does:** Tayside Young Fiddlers is a youth organisation which provides tuition and performance opportunities to people aged 11-18 who are passionate about traditional Scottish fiddle music and the wider roots of Scottish culture.  Meeting weekly, the group of 25 children learn and rehearse for 2 hours, tutored by 4 trad fiddle players. In addition, the group perform at various events in and around Dundee each year, undertake fund raising activities, record CDs and every June are taken away for a residential fiddle camp at Lagganlia, near Aviemore.

**Beneficiaries:** &#x27;Children or young people&#x27;

**Objectives:** To advance the education of the public in the art of traditional Scottish music and the music of kindred cultures.





## Geography

- **Main operating location:** Dundee City
- **Geographical spread:** More than one local authority area in Scotland







