Youth Music
Details
Youth Music is the UK's largest children's music charity, set up in 1999 to promote and support music making opportunities and to provide advice to children from birth - 18 with the least access, including some of the UK's most disadvantaged young people. Youth Music works alongside the formal and community-based sectors to support music-making and training.
Through its 'Open Programme' grants of between £5,000 and £30,000 are available to support projects that provide music making activities for children and young people in support of Youth Music goals. Youth Music distributes its funds in a variety of ways including:
•Open Programmes - open for general application from Tuesday 30 June, 2009
•Partnership Programmes - potential partnership organisations invited to submit proposals
•Action Zones - solicited applications from regional consortiums
•Youth Music initiatives - initiatives or events that complement the above programmes.
General funding criteria
All the necessary information on each type of programme can be found in the relevant section on the Youth Music website. In most cases organisations will be applying to one of the Open Programmes. Each has its own application criteria, but the following list of conditions applies to all Youth Music funding.
• Funding is available to not-for-profit organisations in England that are over one year old.
• Participants must be 0-18 (or up to 25 with special educational needs (SEN), disabilities or in detention).
• Projects must include structured music-making activities which are planned to advance children and young people's music skills
• Activities must involve training and development
• Music-making activity must take place principally outside of school hours.
• Youth Music's main source of funding is National Lottery money. This is distributed via Arts Council England, and so is not able to fund projects in Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales. Each nation has its own Lottery allocation and chooses to use it in a variety of ways. However, 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.
Resource Website
http://www.youthmusic.org.uk/funding.html
Contact Details
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020 7902 1060
Short links
http://www.albandys.org.uk/go/youth_music
http://www.albandys.org.uk/go/335