I am a member of the following organisations:

COMA: (Contemporary Music making for Amateurs) aims to encourage musicians of all abilities to take part in contemporary music-making by providing opportunities for the creation and performance of new music, creating a high quality, contemporary repertoire technically accessible to amateurs, and building a network of amateur and professional musicians working to further these aims.

SPNM: Society for the Promotion of New Music

SRP: Society of Recorder Players. For more than sixty years The Society of Recorder Players has been stimulating interest and enjoyment in the art of recorder playing.

An excellent source of information about the recorder is Nicholas Lander's
Recorder HomePage.

NERCO: North East Recorder Orchestra

TO: Tynedale Orchestra, (formerly Tynedale Symphony Orchestra) formed in 1988 to enable orchestral musicians in the Hexham area to rehearse together and give concerts.

Cobweb Orchestra. The amateur orchestra with regular professional training. There are branches in Co Durham, Northumberland and Cumbria

As far as music typesetting software goes I use :

1. Noteworthy Composer and

2. Sibelius