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Early Years
Ensuring that every child under 5 has access to music-making opportunities.
Singing
Working with partners to ensure that children and young people in the UK have access to high quality singing opportunities.
Transition from primary to secondary school
Improving opportunities for children to continue with their music making after they move to secondary school.
Children and young people at risk
Establishing music making as a medium for benefiting children and young people deemed to be at risk*
Workforce development
Improving the quality and quantity of music leadership in order to deliver better music-making opportunities for children
and young people.
Amendments have now been made to the Open Programmes Application Forms and Hot Tips, which can now be downloaded. Applicants who downloaded the forms between July 5 - 20 will need to download the new amended forms and disregard the old ones.
We would like to apologise for any inconvenience caused.
We have created Vocalise! to encourage opportunities for children and young people to sing, particularly those who would otherwise lack the chance to take part. Through Vocalise! we want to support proposals where the voice is the principal means of making music. This can be through a range of vocal styles, not only traditional choral singing, for example beatboxing, rapping, any popular music styles with or without microphones, scat singing, musical theatre, opera, gospel, chant and all other vocal traditions from around the world.
Proposals must:
- Include music-making where the voice is the main instrument
- Include structured singing or vocal activities that develop children and young people’s music skills.
- Include opportunities for children and young people to share their
achievements, for example performing to their friends, family or wider community. - Involve children and young people age 5-18 (up to 25 with SEN).
- Include no more than 25% activity in school hours (except SEN and those excluded from mainstream education or in detention).
- Be for between £5,000 and £20,000 for a period of no less than 6 months and no more than 18 months.
- Not spend more than 5% of the total award on equipment (e.g. instruments, technology, sheet music).
*Subject to Youth Music's funding being confirmed by Arts Council England beyond March 31, 2009
In addition to the criteria listed above, there are a number of priorities for the programme. Due to high demand and competition for resources, organisations which address the priorities within the programme are more likely to be successful. See the Hot Tips for more details about the priorities.
How to apply
Download Vocalise! Hot Tips and Application Form
Download Guidelines for Repeat Applicants (27KB Word)
Search for other Youth Music funded projects
For further information
T:020 7902 1060 or E: info@youthmusic.org.uk