Jamming Station: Totnes venue, music hub and lifeline for young people launches £50,000 “do-or-die” appeal

A youth music project has launched a £50,000 appeal to transform its venue. The appeal will fund essential fire safety work, a new PA and lighting system, and soundproofing, rising to a fully equipped youth venue with sensory spaces, an employability café and training facilities at higher funding levels at the Jamming Station in Totnes. The Devon venue known as the Town Mill “is part youth club, part rehearsal room, part training ground for the music industry” for young people. according to a press release. You can contribute to the appeal here. Jamming Station co-director Jacqui Perks said: “For many of our young people, this is the place where they finally find their tribe. They come out of school carrying all that pressure and enter an environment where they can unwind among other young musicians who see them, understand them and accept them. “In a band, everybody has a part to play. You have to listen to each other and keep going when something doesn’t work. Those are music skills, but they’re also life skills.” The Town Mill CREDIT: Eliot Ely It began in 2012 when Perks and fellow musicians Beth Coombes and Lee Friese-Greene started loading amps into cars each week because “th...