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Annual Report and Audited Accounts of Na Píobairí Na Píobairí Uilleann Annual Report 2012 NA PÍOBAIRÍ UILLEANN ANNUAL REPORT 1 Na Píobairí Uilleann Annual Report 2012 2 Front Page: Patrick Cafferkey (Achill), Review page: Jane Walls (Antrim) Na Píobairí Uilleann Annual Report 2012 Contents Chairman’s Report 2 CEO Report 4 Minutes of 2012 AGM 6 Review 10 Executive, Board and Patrons 21 Audited Accounts 22 Acknowledgements 34 1 Na Píobairí Uilleann Annual Report 2012 Chairman’s Report The past year has been a very busy one for Na Píobairí Uilleann. Despite the current difficult economic circumstances I am very happy to report very good progress made on the goals which we pursue in connection with the promotion of the uilleann piping art and related crafts. Arts Council Funding are to make an additional contribution from our own resources and this again highlights the ongoing pressing The Arts Council has confirmed our rfo funding level need to sustain and intensify our fundraising activities. of €340,000 for the twelve months to 31 March 2014. I would again ask all members to apply and commit While this represents a €12,000 reduction of the themselves to the very important task of fundraising. previous year’s funding, this is less than the average The Board has a task to work on this action point. reduction across arts forms generally at the present time A growing number of people have taken up uilleann and is a reasonable outcome for npu. The skill and piping because of the pipes on loan scheme and I cannot organisation management demonstrated by Gay and the over emphasise the importance of fund raising work for team have certainly been very important in sustaining the future. our present Arts Council grant level. It will however continue to be a challenge for staff and the Board to do Pipemaking Training all that is necessary to maintain the quality and level of services and resources for the coming year and beyond. There are ten trainees on the full time PipeCraft programme. A number of short term courses have been RAISE Fundraising Initiative run during the year including a six week long introduction to pipe making module. Several other Following participation in a very competitive process, short term courses have also been run including reamer npu’s application was successful under the Arts making as well as several week-long reed making Council’s raise fundraising initiative. We will receive programmes. The research and information exchange assistance, advice and mentoring support, along with arising from various training activities are continuing funding towards hiring a fulltime fundraiser for two to yield good results. The measurement and presentation years. The total value of this award to npu is estimated of data on a variety of historical sets of pipes is another to be €100,000. On behalf of members I thank all of in-progress project. This source of information will the staff who have successfully participated in bringing become available over time and will be to the benefit of npu to benefit from this much needed and welcome makers and players of the instrument fundraising opportunity. The generosity of member Daniel Hervé for use of his drawings and dimensional details of Coyne and other sets of pipes is gratefully appreciated. This material is Pipes on loan scheme and the need for also of major value for development of best practice in sustained fundraising efforts measurement and cataloguing of instruments and their features. The availability of measurement data is of great Our recent application for funding under the Music value to pipe makers and PipeCraft course participants Capital Scheme was successful, enabling us to purchase and will extend the scope of this knowledge to the pipe seventeen additional practice sets for our Pipes on Loan makers and others who will wish to study the topics of scheme. In order to avail of the music capital award, we pipe making and reed making. 2 Na Píobairí Uilleann Annual Report 2012 International Uilleann Piping event: We are also again most thankful to the Arts Council for Website improvement their continued support for the work of Na Píobairí Uilleann in these times of very severe financial The range and proliferation of piping events throughout constraints. The Council’s support is vital to the the world indicate the ever increasing popularity of accomplishment of our plans in advancing the art, the music. The various regular activities and notably design and music of the pipes. International Uilleann Piping Day bear testimony to On behalf of members I also wish to record our thanks the extent of successful piping, reed making and pipe to Dublin City Council for their continuing help, making activities globally. Piping classes and sessions support and practical assistance as we move to progress are at the core of these developments and in Ireland the the feasibility stages for the reinstatement of number 16 extension of classes to several other counties with help Henrietta Street to eventually accommodate a Museum, from the Music Generation are further signs of greater Theatre, expanded Library/Archive. The support of uptake of piping activities. Our thanks are due to all the Council in funding piping classes is also much members, everywhere, who participate in and support appreciated. Thanks are also due to the Crafts Council these classes and events and who readily share their of Ireland for their continued funding, support and knowledge with learners. assistance. We are also most thankful to the County Gatherings such as Willie Clancy Summer School in Enterprise Boards and leader Programmes for Co. Clare and the Ace and Deuce of Piping Concert in their assistance and support of our PipeCraft training Dublin add to the music knowledge and appreciation of course participants. pipers and the listening and viewing public generally. I offer sincere thanks to the ceo, the Administrator and The additional archive material, presentations and the administrative support staff, the Archivist and the sound files added to imco, Source and the further PipeCraft Training Supervisor. Their efforts, the additions and in-progress development of the npu efficiency of work, the ready unstinting commitment website and the availability of the additional resources and spirit of teamwork greatly contribute to our presented there during the past year are to the benefit of ongoing successful progress. Sincere thanks are due to the developing piper and musician generally. the piping teachers, volunteers and activists throughout The review included here sets out in further detail, our the world who have in the past year enthusiastically activities during the year. Having the annual Tionol supported and participated in piping events of all kinds. 2013 again in Listowel, following the great success of the I wish to thank board members and officers who have 2012 event is in line with our plans to extend piping to again given of their time and expertise in pursuit of all areas of the country. Kerry was in times past, a noted our objectives. county for piping and Na Píobairí Uilleann’s support for Finally may I extend thanks to those all over the world the very successful Ballybunion Chanters Festival who contribute material for An Píobaire, to those who weekend held in November 2012 with visits to several have generously made donations of instruments, archive local schools to present uilleann piping and traditional material and otherwise supported and co-ordinated our song to school students was an initiative which should efforts for piping and the music community generally. bear fruit in the fullness of time. Dave Hegarty Acknowledgments Chairman In reporting on our work for 2012, I would like to express our gratitude to Mr. Jimmy Deenihan, t.d., Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht and the officials of his department. Their continued interest in our piping and traditional music activities are greatly valued and appreciated by the uilleann piping community. 3 Na Píobairí Uilleann Annual Report 2012 CEO Report The progress being made by Na Píobairí Uilleann in promoting the playing and manufacture of the uilleann pipes and Irish traditional music worldwide continued to accelerate during 2012. However, it is very important that we have a grasp of the realities in relation to the environment in which we operate. In Ireland alone there are large areas where people who welcome development on the part of npu it has really are interested in doing so, find it very difficult to get highlighted the need for us to broaden the scale and access to a working set of uilleann pipes, piping teachers focus of this type of activity over the coming years. Like and the essential support systems in order to sustain a all organisations, we have limited resources and the long term enjoyment of the art of uilleann piping. We challenge is for us to ensure the focus on basic barriers receive enquiries on a daily basis from people who wish to entry to the art of uilleann piping are further reduced to start learning the pipes and despite the fact that we throughout Ireland and abroad. have in excess of one hundred practice sets of pipes on The creativeness, commitment and enthusiasm of the loan and there are more pipemakers than ever staff at npu, along with the support of the Board and manufacturing new instruments, our waiting list for the voluntary efforts of members of pipers clubs instruments on loan continues to grow and now stands worldwide are the main reasons for the success of npu. at sixty in number. I would like to thank all of those people and groups for In many ways it is gratifying to know that more people their outstanding support at all times in 2012 and since.
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