Julia Mcinally
Areas: Barnsley, Bradford, Calderdale, Doncaster, East Riding of Yorkshire, Kingston Upon Hull, Kirklees, Leeds, North East Lincolnshire, North Lincolnshire, North Yorkshire, Rotherham, Sheffield, Wakefield, York
Key facts and figures
Since 1999 in the Yorkshire region we have:
- Made 106 awards to organisations based in the Yorkshire region
- Invested a total of £3,657,499 in Yorkshire based organisations
- Reached 45,341 participants
(NB: These figures do not include National Youth Music Organisations)
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Yorkshire
Welcome to Youth Music’s Yorkshire regional homepage. This is a new site section dedicated to information specific to your region.
I am Julia Mcinally, the Youth Music Regional Executive Officer (REO) for Yorkshire. I joined Youth Music in September 2007, the newest member of the REO team. I am a singer, songwriter and guitarist, and have recently begun delivering music workshops in early years settings and schools. I love music and am passionate about ensuring it is more accessible to young people. Directly before joining Youth Music I worked for Creative Partnerships in Sheffield, although I have also worked in various other sectors including community development, sport and health.
My role as Regional Executive Officer is to encourage high quality music making opportunities for young people in the region. I help organisations to develop new work, promote partnerships and networking opportunities, offer information and guidance and work closely with our key regional partners at the two Yorkshire Youth Music Action Zones and Musicleader Yorkshire.
Within our region, as with others, there are some key challenges. We have areas of significant deprivation, where opportunities for children and young people to engage in the arts are severely limited. We have coastal and rural deprivation which has steadily become quite extreme and is beginning to get attention from the Government, who recently have been discussing and highlighting both coastal and rural deprivation as a key issue for the forthcoming years.
The last census of Yorkshire stated that there were:-
29,2030 children between 0 - 4
32,1954 children aged between 5 – 9
33,6487 young people aged between 10 – 14
31,9987 young people aged between 15 – 19
There are large numbers of unemployed or underemployed musicians and artists and yet some areas are lacking in specialist expertise such as singing. Yorkshire also encompasses some of the most rural and diverse wards in the country, such as North Yorkshire. This means that specific work must be undertaken to ensure that access to music is available in these communities and that links, networks and partnerships need to be supported in order to achieve success in that work.
Youth Music’s policy from 2005-10 focuses upon 5 priorities: early years; singing; transition between primary and secondary school; young people at risk; workforce development.
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