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.