Contact: Ben Ballard, Director
Plymouth Music Zone
Raglan Road
Brickfields
Devonport
Plymouth
PL1 4NQ
T: 01752 213 690
E: info@plymouthmusiczone.org.uk
W: www.plymouthmusiczone.org.uk
W: www.myspace.com/plymouthmusiczone
Key facts
- Plymouth Music Zone has worked with over 5,000 participants to date.
- Youth Music has awarded Plymouth Music Zone grants totalling £750,000.
- Plymouth Music Zone has raised £150,000 in partnership funding.
- Plymouth local authority is 84th in the Top 100 deprived local authorities by income deprivation affecting children (IDACI).
- The Music Zone's wider activities funded by Youth Music started in September 2003.
- Brickfields Music Centre was regenerated in partnership with Plymouth City Council, Plymouth Local Education Authority and Devonport Regeneration Company, using £437,358 of Space for Sport and the Arts funding.
Initially funded by an anonymous benefactor, the Plymouth Music Zone activities started in September 1999; working with schools within the Plymouth Education Action Zone, the Plymouth Music Zone has now spread its activities city-wide.