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.

More information about the other nations