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Youth Music Week 2007
Find free music activities during half-term October 24-31
“You’ve got to be proactive, but you’ve got to have belief as well because if I’d listened to that one person who I knew in the music industry, we wouldn’t have done anything.”
Felix Buxton, Basement Jaxx
Youth Music has established two Early Years pilot zones in Great Yarmouth and North Tyneside to deliver intensive music-making activities for 0-5 year olds.
Singing Communities
The Singing Communities partnership programme set out to find out to what extent singing makes a difference to young people and their communities.
Wider Opportunities
Youth Music ran pilot projects in seven Music Services to provide great access to instrument tuition for primary school aged children. Sound Inventors
Sound Inventors is a Youth Music initiative, devised and delivered by spnm, with partnership funds from the PRS Foundation. It comprises twenty England-wide projects to support young people aged 8-18 in creating their own music. Come and Play
A partnership between Youth Music and Kids Club Network to develop innovative music-making activities for primary school aged children in after-school clubs and holiday play schemes. National Youth Music Organisations
An advocacy and funding initiative to help stabilise the funding of the national youth music organizations. Gallery 37 Plus
Gallery 37 Plus is a cross-arts youth engagement programme for 16 – 24 year olds which focuses on intensive summer activity.
This section is for organisations that have been awarded a Youth music grant.
Find out how to apply for funding
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Logging your upcoming events on the Youth Music website is a condition of funding. Before you can start doing this, you must complete the online registration form.
Visitors to the website (including the press and young people themselves) will search out music-making activity in their area, so registering your project and submitting events is a profile-raising opportunity.
Have your Unique Reference Number (URN) at hand when you're doing this.
Register your project
Submit an event
For information contact the Marketing & Communications team:
E: marketing@youthmusic.org.uk
T: 020 7902 1088
You should have received a copy of the Information for Funded Programmes leaflet with your offer letter, which contains full details on all grant conditions. It can also be download by clicking either of the links below.
Download Information for funded programmes
(154KB Word)
Download Information for funded programmes
(94KB PDF)
See below for a summary of the main grant conditions and to access the relevant guidelines and forms.
You are required to complete a monitoring report form every time you request a payment.
Download Quarterly Monitoring Report Form (388KB)
For further information, contact the Monitoring team:
E: monitoring@youthmusic.org.uk
T: 020 7902 1060
The Quarterly Monitoring Forms below are to be used by Youth Music Action Zone (YMAZ) programmes only, when submitting quarterly claims.
Download YMAZ Guidance Notes (1.46 MB Word)
Download YMAZ Narrative Report (1.5 MB Word)
Download YMAZ Finance Template (50KB Excel)
Download YMAZ Partner Claim form (25KB Word)
Download YMAZ Surplus Claim Form (1.5 MB Excel)
It is important that you acknowledge Youth Music funding on all print and design. Branding requirements are specified on the CD Rom that you received when you accepted the grant offer. Click on the link below for guidance on branding, press releases, general marketing and photography.
Marketing Guidelines
For further information or to request more copies of the CD, contact the Marketing & Communications team:
E: marketing@youthmusic.org.uk
T: 020 7902 1060
You are required to fill in a final report form at the end of your project.
We strongly recommend that you refer to this form at the start of your programme to ensure you are collecting the information required.
Download Final Report Form
(680KB)
For further information, contact the Monitoring team:
E: monitoring@youthmusic.org.uk
T: 020 7902 1060