Youth Music
other sponsors: Exeter Arts Council, Midas Homes, Exeter City Council, Devon and Cornwall Housing Association
We are really delighted by the grant we have received from Youth Music. This money will enable Exeter Young Strings to run free music classes for a year in Beacon Heath and Whipton Children’s centres, and Willowbrook School and Whipton Barton First school. It will also enable us to train staff in these institutes to continue the lessons beyond this first year. This will give many of Exeter’s children the opportunity to receive music lessons and to play a stringed instrument. We are specifically targeting children who wouldn’t otherwise have this worthwhile opportunity and are very much looking forward to starting this project
Youth Music works alongside the formal and community-based sectors to support music-making and training.
Our funding complements music in the national curriculum by supporting activities held mainly outside of school hours and delivered by non-profit making organisations.
Youth Music also aims to support wider aspects of music-making through funding training for music leaders, as well as working strategically to bring together partnership organisations from across the music, education and social sectors.
In its advocacy role, Youth Music encourages debate about music education and the provision of music-making activities for young people.
Youth Music receives National Lottery funding through Arts Council England. This money can only support projects in England, but strategic alliances are being established with the Arts Councils of Scotland, Northern Ireland and Wales to enable Youth Music programmes to take place throughout the UK in the future.
Location & contact
America Street
London
SE1 0NE
Tel 020 7902 1060
website www.youthmusic.org.uk
other sponsors: Exeter Arts Council, Midas Homes, Exeter City Council, Devon and Cornwall Housing Association