Youth Music’s Fund A grants programme awards grants between £2,000 and £30,000 for high-quality projects that aim to help to achieve a musically inclusive England.
Youth Music has six priority funding areas. Your project should fit into at least one of these priority areas:
1. Early years
Children aged 0-5 who face barriers to accessing music-making as a result of their circumstances or where they live. Projects should promote:
Access to quality, creative musical experiences that support children’s developmental needs. Shared learning between early years specialists, music specialists and parents, so that all become skilled, confident, and engaged in encouraging young children’s musicality. Workforce diversity.
2. Young adults
Young adults aged 16-25 who want to take their music further, or for whom music can support wider personal and social outcomes. Projects should:
Improve young people’s confidence, skills, social networks and emotional wellbeing as well as providing specific mentoring, networking and industry opportunities. Have been co-created with young adults. Increase and enhance engagement with employment, education and training.
3. Disabled young people
Youth Music Network use the term ‘disabled’ rather than ‘SEN/D’ in line with the social model of disability, which states that disabling barriers make life harder for disabled people, and puts the onus on society to provide the right support to overcome disabling barriers. Projects for disabled young people (aged 0 – 25) should:
Ensure that they have equitable access to music education that meets their needs and supports their progression. Provide routes for disabled young people in the workforce.
4. Young people facing barriers
Young people who face barriers to music-making due to their characteristics or life circumstances or as a result of where they live. Projects should:
Are youth-led, and offer culturally relevant and engaging music programmes that promote personal and social outcomes alongside musical development. Work in partnership with other organisations and agencies to reach young people facing barriers, and ensure that their needs are met.
5. The youth justice system
Children and young people who are, have been, or are at risk of being involved with the youth justice system. Projects should:
Are youth-led, and offer culturally relevant and engaging music programmes that promote personal and social outcomes alongside musical development. Work in partnership with other organisations and agencies to support progression and ensure that ensure that young people’s needs are met.
6. Organisations and the workforce
Work that benefits the people and organisations who provide inclusive music-making opportunities for children and young people. Projects should support and encourage:
Organisations to be innovative, resilient and inclusive. A diverse workforce that is networked and skilled in inclusive practice with children and young people.
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Deadline: 31 July 2020