Donate to MugStock

As a Creative Charity, MugStock’s mission is to make people happy. For 4 years we did that by creating an all ages festival of music & merriment. We tried our very best to recover from lockdown and bounce back on a new site with a more ambitious programme, but we didn’t quite manage to pull it off…

In the meantime we have evolved in a charity which as well as conceiving new unique events, repurposes diused spaces and puts them to creative use, supporting artists, communities and other charities. Our flagship venue The MugShack will officially open on Friday 9th May. Since 2020 it has already become host to several highly impactful creative community projects, including TRASH Music Projects (free youth music sessions), and Cumbernauld Alternative Network CIC (free sewing, mending and upcylcing classes). We envisage the MugShack as an incubator for new grassroots talent. We will open our doors to new promoters, support communities to flourish and people to connect with one another.

MugStock has been led by volunteers for the past 10 years. To sustainably run a venue we need the support of a small staff team. Unfortunately we have been turned down for funding to keep this team in post for a further year, so we need the help of our community to keep the doors open beyond June.

It would be heartbreaking to have to close shortly after we open, and we are sure it won’t come to that because there’s too much goodwill in our community to allow that to happen.

We are therefore reaching out to businesses, individuals, trust and foundations and others to ask for support. If you’ve read this far it would mean so much to our team if you would consider donating.

Our most vital contributors are those who have comitted to giving a monthly donation. 

By donating you are helping to sustain the impact of our mission to promote music and merriment for years to come.

Thanks for that.

Team MugStock, Feb 2024

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