Key Facts

• MONSWN has worked with over 2,000 participants on the island
• Youth Music has awarded MONSWN grants totalling £205,000 to date
• MONSWN has raised  £229,753 in partnership funding (not including the anonymous donation)
• 6 out of the 12 wards in Ynys Môn are within the 100 most deprived electoral divisions (out of a total of 865) as identified by the Welsh Index of Multiple Deprivation 2000 Edition, also known as Communities First wards.
  

Consortium members

• Anglesey County Council's Department of Education and Leisure
• Theatr Ieuenctid Môn (TIM)
• The Education Advisory Service
• The School's Music Service
• Welsh Language Board via Mon Language initiative
  
  
  

National co-ordinator - Wales
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Ynys Môn Ardal Swnllyd (YMAS), launched in July 2003, enables the children and young people of Anglesey to take in part in musical activities in a unique and exciting way. The aim is to reach those young people who might not otherwise have the opportunity.

YMAS was the first Youth Music Action Zone to be launched in Wales. It has benefited from the generous support of an anonymous individual who donated £260k to Youth Music for the setting up of two Welsh Action Zones. The second Welsh Zone is in Methyr Tydfil.