Various papers relating to HOPES and Live-A-Music/Ensemble administration and events. Includes:

• minutes of Hope Street Midsummer Festival 1998 planning meeting, 15 Dec 1997
• minutes of the Windrush '98 Steering Group Meeting, 27 May 1998
• photographs of HOPES and Live-A-Music events
• notes for Roger Philips for 1999 Hotfoot concert
• schedule for visit to Hope Street Quarter by Chris Smith, Secretary of State for Culture, Media, and Sport, 15 Mar 1999
• report by the University of Liverpool Study Team: 'Interim Assessment of the Current Objective 1 Programme', Mar 1999
• typescript speech given at the Hope Street Festival launch by Joe Riley, Arts Editor of the Liverpool Echo, 18 Jun 1999
• grant application to the Merseyside Music Development Agency (MMDA) by the Saurang Orchestra, Nov 1999
• application for MMDA Grant Aid for a contemporary music recording project by Richard Gordon-Smith, Dec 1999
• typescript terms and conditions of grant given by The Millennium Commission to HOPES for the Hope Street Millennium Festival, with details of project, Jan 2000
• typescript notes on Hope Street Web Development, Jan 2000
• funding application to BBC Music Live for concert and workshop by Live-A-Music, 2000
• minutes of Millennium Festival meeting, 14 Mar 2000
• agenda for HOPES consultants' meeting, 15 Mar 2000
• material from a Millennium Commission breakfast briefing, held 22 Sep 2000, including text of Hilary Burrage's speech on HOPES and its Millennium Festival
• HOPES application for funding to The Paul Hamlyn Foundation, 5 Apr 2001, for the Hope Street Midsummer Festival
• agenda for HOPES Executive Group meeting, 11 Jul 2001
• agenda and associated papers relating to a Stop the Rot Forum meeting held 19 Oct 2001, with annotations by Burrage
• printouts from BBC Classical Music online forum, with comments by Hilary Burrage on the work of Live-A-Music, Jun-Jul 2002
• press releases, cuttings, correspondence, flyers, reviews, and programmes relating to various Live-A-Music and Ensemble events and projects
• miscellaneous correspondence, including reference to funding.