• Supporting music making opportunities – through open and solicited funding programmes
  
  
• Advocating for further opportunities – through developing strategies that seek to ensure parity of opportunity
  
  
• Developing the workforce – to deliver better opportunities to children and young people

Youth Music UK guiding objectives:

• Access - Providing those with the least opportunity accessible ways into music-making and
  opportunities to progress
  
  
• Breadth - Supporting music making of all styles and cultures that stimulate children and young people
  
  
• Coverage - Ensuring opportunities are available in all localities, and targeting those where little or no music-making provision has occurred previously
  
  
• Development - Providing ways for present and future music leaders to improve and develop their skills
  
  
• Quality - Securing high standards for all