The National Foundation for Youth Music (Youth Music) is to launch a new phase of initiatives, partnerships, and funding programmes which will assist the promotion of music-making for children and young people until 2005.
Over the next three years up to £30m of Arts Council of England (ACE) National Lottery funds will be distributed, with an emphasis on work in three specific areas: the professional development and training of music leaders, the building of partnerships between organisations working with young people, and the support of music-making as part of early learning. Starting in April, these will be addressed by a variety of initiatives in five different strands: - Open Programmes available by application; Key Partnerships with established organisations; strategic New Partnerships in specially selected areas that have a measurable impact; Action Research and Development; and annual Special Initiatives such as this year?s Song For Youth ? ?Drop in the Ocean? ? a specially commissioned song and education pack that will enable over half a million young people to sing new repertoire and give thousands of music teachers and leaders a new teaching resource. New tactics will be used to reach as many young people as possible, such as Sound Inventors, a scheme for young composers devised by Youth Music and run by a strategic partner, the Society for the Promotion of New Music; and music-based interaction for young people who have had custodial sentences in detention centres. For more information w: http://www.youthmusic.org.uk
Published: 11-03-2002