VOCAL GIRLS Running Costs

VOCAL GIRLS  is a change-making music content platform dedicated to championing emerging artists, with a focus on female and LGBTQ+ talent. Founder, Megan Graye, started VOCAL GIRLS after realising the shocking lack of gender diversity within the industry; not only on stage, but behind the scenes too, with women making up just 15% of major label owners, 20% of composers and songwriters, 20% of festival line-ups and 6% of headliners! These grim stats show that women are still dramatically unrepresented and overlooked within the industry, so we decided it was time to grab life by the boobs, get VOCAL and create some noise! 

We’ve made a lot happen since launching in 2020. In just 12 short months, we’ve created two podcast series , booked a weekly VOCAL GIRLS CLUB radio show, been featured on BBC 6music, in Harper’s Bazaar  and MyLondon , partnered with tmrw, built an extremely loyal and targeted social audience, platformed and collaborated with countless artists across digital and audio (including Arlo Parks, Gracey and Olivia Dean) and created a content site publishing original articles across news, interviews, features and listicles - and we’re only just getting started! We have plans to launch a third podcast series, VGC YouTube and video content, VG merch and run exclusive events - but we can't do it without your help!

Currently there are unavoidable set-up and running costs that need to be met. We really need your help to cover these because until now, all of these have come  out of our (very limited) personal savings.  Things like website fees, domain fees and general administration costs are starting to add up and we are unable to keep going without your support (more details of expenditure below). We're run by a team of dedicated volunteers who work hard to champion artists and share great content. At the moment we give our time for free, but we're hoping to grow and attract sponsorship so that we can soon become a self-sufficient business. 

We'd also like to make a contribution to any travel costs incurred by our volunteers when attending shoots etc as they live all over the UK. Please, please give whatever you can to help us so that we can continue to grow, champion and platform incredible womxn and LGBTQ+ artists through our inspiring content. We REALLY believe in this platform and hope you do to! 

We'd be so grateful for your help to enable us to continue our important work at VOCAL GIRLS.  We believe all artists deserve equal representation and a chance to be heard!

Thank you for taking the time to read this,

All our love, 

VOCAL GIRLS CLUB

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Here are the sorts of things your money will help to cover:

- Website fees
- Domain and email fees
- Initial branding fees 
- Podcast series music fees
- Adobe Creative cloud membership (needed to create all our content)
- Remainder to be allocated for general running costs, unexpected fees and train and travel expenses for our team to get to shoots / meetings.