The Access Music Project, supported by St. Patrick's Band, instigated in 1999 to provide musical education to the unemployed

In 1999 the Access Music Project (a scheme set up by the Galway Enterprise Board that provided free musical education and music business courses to the unemployed) was instigated, and continued in the Bandroom for fifteen years. Through professional and voluntary aid, including many members of St. Patrick's Band (as there were almost no institutions providing musical educations in Galway at the time, save for a few enterprising schools), the project proved to be a great success and many accomplished musicians were borne out of the project.