Discover the huge variety of organisations bringing music to children and young people, all in support of Tune In - Year of Music. If you're interested in becoming a partner, please check out the resource pack section of this site.

ABRSM

www.abrsm.org
ABRSM motivates musical achievement through its authoritative assessment of students, the professional development of teachers, and a wide range of published resources. ABRSM also actively supports music education through funding and advocacy.

Access to Music

www.accesstomusic.co.uk
Access to Music is the UK's largest provider of popular music education - providing quality, innovation and opportunity in music, bridging the gap between education and the industry, and providing music solutions for education.

Aldworth Philharmonic Orchestra

www.aldworthphilharmonic.org.uk/about.htm
Aldworth Philharmonic Orchestra is a community orchestra based in Reading. The ethos is on fostering classical innovation in Berkshire. APO puts on concerts, runs school workshops and fosters young composing talent.

Armstrong Learning

www.armstronglearning.co.uk
Armstrong Learning provides employability skills, mentoring and music industry advice to thousands of unemployed young people every year, helping many to find work. Armstrong Learning's recent acquisition of Access to Music confirms the partnership as the largest provider of popular music education in the UK.

Arts Council England

www.artscouncil.org.uk
Arts Council England works to bring great art to everyone by championing, developing and investing in artistic experiences that enrich people's lives. As the national development agency for the arts, it supports a range of artistic activities from theatre to music, literature to dance, photography to digital art, carnival to crafts.

Association of British Orchestras

www.abo.org.uk
ABO is the national body representing the collective interests of professional orchestras throughout the UK.

AVID

www.avid.com
From the most prestigious, award-winning productions, to music and movies made at home, Avid creates the technology that people use to make the most listened to, most watched and most loved media in the world.

Barbican

www.barbican.org.uk
Barbican is Europe's largest multi-arts and conference venue presenting a diverse range of art, music, theatre, dance, film and education events. It is also home to the London Symphony Orchestra.

Barnsley Music Service

www.barnsley.gov.uk/bguk/Education_Skills/Barnsley%20Music%20Service%20(PADS)
Barnsley Music Service (PADS) provides specialist instrumental and vocal music tuition in schools throughout the area. The service also offers a range of ensemble opportunities that operate in association with the music service.

BBC Music

www.bbc.co.uk/music
www.bbc.co.uk/sing
The BBC is the largest broadcasting corporation in the world. Its mission is to enrich people's lives with programmes that inform, educate and entertain.

Berkshire Maestros

www.berkshiremaestros.org.uk
Berkshire Maestros is a charitable trust providing music education opportunities to children and young people in Berkshire. It provides music services for Bracknell Forest Council, Reading Borough Council, the Royal Borough of Windsor & Maidenhead, West Berkshire Council and Wokingham Borough Council.

Biggafish

www.biggafish.com
Biggafish is a not-for-profit youth organisation. It is dedicated to the education of 13-18 year olds through music and its related industries. Its aim is to focus the energy of urban youth, giving them knowledge and opportunities to achieve their goals.

Birmingham Contemporary Music Group

www.bcmg.org.uk
Birmingham Contemporary Music Group is passionately committed to engaging audiences and participants with the most exciting classical music of our time through pioneering concerts, learning programmes, tours, media projects and audience-building initiatives.

Bolton Music Service

www.boltonmusicservice.co.uk
Bolton Music Service provides over 40 large and small ensembles covering most instruments, age ranges and abilities; curriculum support materials, advice and resources for teachers in Early Years, Key Stages 1, 2 and 3; and a range of workshops provided by expert teachers.

Bristol Arts and Music Service

www.bristol.gov.uk/artsandmusic
Bristol Arts and Music Service (BAMS) offers a range of music and arts provision to young people and the wider community in Bristol. BAMS employs over 130 experienced music tutors who work in schools and Music Centres providing over 800 hours of tuition every week.

Bromley Youth Music Trust

www.bymt.co.uk
Bromley Youth Music Trust exists to help young people in Bromley develop their musical abilities. Funded by Bromley Council, BYMT teaches between 5000 and 6000 children every year to sing or play an instrument, and its bands, choirs and orchestras have a national reputation for excellence.

Centre for Young Musicians

www.cym.org.uk
CYM is a Centre of Advanced Training (CAT) within the DCSF Music and Dance Scheme. Since its founding in 1970, London's Centre for Young Musicians has provided high quality music training for thousands of talented students.

Channel4 Music

www.4music.com
4Music is the most watched music channel in the UK. 4Music offers exclusive behind-the-scenes access to the biggest names in music, unmissable live performances, video exclusives, up to the minute music news and an eclectic mix of new and classic video content.

Choir Schools Association

www.choirschools.org.uk
CSA has been part of the DCSF Music and Dance Scheme for many years and is responsible for the dispersal of Government funding through its chorister scholarship scheme. Its choristers (some 1200 boys and girls aged 7-13) sing on a daily basis in cathedrals and collegiate chapels across the country.

City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra

www.cbso.co.uk
CBSO's Education Programme inspires people of all ages, experiences and backgrounds to take part in innovative creative projects, attend concerts and to develop their own musicianship.

City of Leeds Youth Orchestra

www.clyo.org.uk
City of Leeds Youth Orchestra is one of the leading ensembles of its kind in the country. For more than forty years it has given generations of young players an opportunity to express their musical talents.

Classic FM

www.classicfm.co.uk
Classic FM is the largest national commercial radio station in the UK, reaching 5.7 million people every week.

Coventry Performing Arts ServiceM

www.coventry.gov.uk/ccm/navigation/education-and-learning/performing-arts-service
Coventry Performing Arts Service is the major provider of performing arts activities in Coventry. Teachers and artists work in schools and the community to provide a range of high-quality learning and performance opportunities through music, dance and drama. It strives to support schools in raising standards and provide a challenging, rich and balanced curriculum. A wide-range of opportunities are provided for young people, both in school and out, with a number of high-profile performances taking place throughout the year.

Creative & Cultural Skills

www.ccskills.org.uk
Creative & Cultural Skills proceeds to open entry routes into the music sector via the Diploma in Creative and Media and Creative Apprenticeships within the music industry. It has developed a quality benchmark to support employers and practitioners delivering work-related learning in schools.

Creativity, Culture, Education England

www.creativitycultureeducation.org
Creativity, Culture and Education (CCE) is the new national organisation created to generate transformational cultural and creative programmes for children and young people across England to enhance their aspirations, achievements, skills and life chances.

DCSF Music & Dance Scheme

www.dcsf.gov.uk/mds
The Department for Children, Schools and Families' national scheme that involves eight specialist independent vocational schools (including the Royal Ballet Scheme, London and Chetham's School of Music, Manchester) and 21 Centres for Advanced Training (CATs) around the country. It also supports Choristers at choir schools and contributes to a fund for National Youth Music Organisations and Youth Dance England.

Devon Music Service

www.devon.gov.uk/musicservice
Devon Music Service promotes the uptake of musical instruments and singing. It offers Continuous Professional Development opportunities for music educators and maintains a wide variety of instruments to support whole class teaching and individual hire. It also offers a variety of ensemble experiences to support students at all levels of development and signposts to local and national opportunities.

Disney Channel

www.disney.co.uk/music
The Walt Disney Company, together with its subsidiaries and affiliates, is a leading diversified international family entertainment and media enterprise with four business segments: media networks, parks and resorts, studio entertainment and consumer products.

Dudley Performing Arts

www.dudley.gov.uk/dpa
Dudley Performing Arts provides a high quality arts service that promotes opportunities for artistic and creative development across the whole community.

Durham Music Service

www.durham.gov.uk
Durham Music Service is creating a ‘world class' performing opportunity for thousands of instrumentalists to develop and showcase their performance skills. Highlights include performances in the world renowned Hall One at The Sage Gateshead, and recording a professional CD featuring a wide variety of ensembles performing a wide range of styles and genres.

Ealing Music Service

www.egfl.org.uk/music
Ealing Music Service aims to provide local schools and young people in the community with high quality music lessons, activities and other innovative, culturally diverse and accessible services.

English Folk Dance and Song Society

www.efdss.org/index.htm
The English Folk Dance and Song Society is a centre of excellence for the study, practice and dissemination of traditional English folk song, dance and music. EFDSS provide national and local outreach activities to increase access to, and celebrate diversity of, Folk dance and song.

The Federation of Music Services

www.federationmusic.org.uk
The FMS ensures the highest standards of teaching by establishing national standards, providing a comprehensive instrumental curriculum with accompanying programmes of self evaluation. The FMS also administers the Government's £40m Musical Instrument Fund which last year provided 110,000 instruments for primary school children.

Film Club

www.filmclub.org
Film Club gives pupils and teachers the chance to explore the world of film through after-school film clubs. With free weekly screenings, online reviewing, industry events and hands on support, Film Club inspires, excites and opens up new avenues for learning.

Find Your Talent

www.findyourtalent.org
Find Your Talent gives children and young people the chance to try out different cultural and creative activities. Whether it is music, art, film, theatre, dance, digital media, exploring libraries, museums or heritage, Find Your Talent is for every child and young person, whatever their age and whatever their ability.

Gibson Guitar

www.gibson.com
Gibson Guitar is known worldwide for producing classic models in every major style of fretted instrument, including acoustic and electric guitars, mandolins, and banjos. Gibson's HD.6X-PRO Digital Guitar, the Gibson Robot Guitar and the Gibson Dark Fire Les Paul represent the biggest advances in electric guitar design in over 75 years.

Gloucestershire Music

www.gloucestershiremusic.co.uk
Gloucestershire's Local Education Authority Music Service.

The Halle

www.halle.co.uk
The Halle's award-winning Education Programme aims to create a wider enjoyment and understanding of music in all sectors of the community; to engage with those who do not traditionally come to the concert hall; to provide opportunities to actively participate in music, and reaches over 35,000 participants a year.

Havering Music School

musicschool@havering.gov.uk
Havering has always had a thriving music tradition led by the Havering Music School in close collaboration with its borough schools. It is immensely enthusiastic about the Year of Music and its aim will be to increase access, inspiration, sustained participation and above all, enjoyment for Havering pupils.

Incorporated Society of Musicians

www.ism.org
The ISM is the UK's professional body for musicians, offering essential backup for today's musician.

In Harmony

www.inharmonyengland.com
www.julianlloydwebber.com
In Harmony is a community development programme aimed at using music to bring positive change to the lives of very young children in some of the most deprived areas of England, delivering benefits across the wider community.

Institute of Education

www.ioe.ac.uk
The Institute of Education is the only college of the University of London dedicated entirely to education and related areas of social science. It is the UK's leading centre for studies in education and related disciplines.

Joined Up Thinking Projects Music

www.jutp.org
JUTP is a unique youth group of string players, offering creative opportunities in musical performance and professional development for all ages.

Kent Music

www.kent-music.com
Kent Music delivers instrumental and vocal teaching to over 14,000 pupils, mostly school age (5-19), but also pre-school children, throughout the County of Kent.

Keynote Educational

www.keynoteeducational.co.uk
Keynote Educational is an independent organisation based in the North West of England, offering music education training courses for teachers and revision days for students throughout the UK.

Lambeth Music Service

www.lambethmusic.co.uk
Lambeth Music Service works with the Lambeth Children and Young People's Service, other education organisations, funding bodies, charities and business partners to provide music education in the borough.

Lancashire Music Service

www.lancsngfl.ac.uk/curriculum/music
Lancashire Music Service aims to enable and encourage access for Lancashire's pupils and young people to musical experiences, bringing them the best music making opportunities available. The service partners with all Lancashire's schools, helping and supporting them to meet their aspirations in providing a wide range of high quality musical activities for their pupils.

Lincolnshire Music Service

www.lincsmusicservice.org
Lincolnshire Music Service aims to provide music leadership, excellence and access through a diverse range of opportunities for all. This is achieved through high quality teaching and a range of musical projects and programmes for the young people of Lincolnshire.

London Symphony Orchestra

www.lso.co.uk/getinvolved
The London Symphony Orchestra is widely regarded as one of the world's leading orchestras. Its many activities include an energetic and ground-breaking education and community programme, a record company (LSO Live), and exciting work in the field of information technology.

Making Music

www.makingmusic.org.uk
Making Music, the National Federation of Music Societies, represents and supports over 2,800 voluntary music groups. Members include adult and youth choirs and orchestras, music promoters, jazz and wind bands, community festivals, samba groups, sitar ensembles, barbershop choruses and brass bands.

Manchester Music Service

www.manchester.gov.uk
Manchester Music Service offers skills tuition through instrumental practice, as well as high level vocal and choral training to as many pupils as possible in Manchester schools. It initiates projects across all sectors that encourage cross-curricular and multi-disciplinary work.

Musical Futures

www.musicalfutures.org.uk
Musical Futures is an approach to teaching and learning that operates in more than 1,000 secondary schools nationally, as well as in Music Services, Local Authorities and community music organisations. It is a new way of thinking about music making in schools that encourages teachers and practitioners to motivate young people through music that is relevant to them, and provide them with real, sustainable music-making opportunities.

Music For Youth

www.mfy.org.uk
For nearly four decades Music for Youth has been showcasing the eclectic and energetic mix of musical styles being created and performed by young people. Every season MFY works with 100,000 performers and audience members; 1,300 music leaders and over 65 venues across the UK. MFY wants to get more young musicians performing and is committed to providing performance and audience opportunities for the next generation of the UK's musical talent.

Music Hub Soundsurf Tour

www.puresolo.com/soundsurf09
The Soundsurf Tour promotes the positive use of the internet in music and creativity. The UK tour involving a series of workshops, industry advice sessions and live showcases features a nationwide lyric-writing competition and is supported by Gibson Guitars, Pure Solo, UK Music, and Hard Rock Cafe.

Musicians' Benevolent Fund

www.mbf.org.uk
The Musicians Benevolent Fund makes career development awards to over 200 outstanding young musicians every year and helps more than 1,500 professional musicians in need because of accident, illness or age related challenges. The Fund also supports a wide range of music organisations such as Music for Youth, Live Music Now and Youth Music Theatre: UK.

Music Education Zone

www.musiceducationzone.net
Music Education Zone is the new online community for music educators. It is a hub for everyone involved in the sector - from dedicated professionals to enthusiastic amateurs, from nursery teachers to orchestral conductors.

Music Industries Association

www.mia.org.uk
MIA is the UK Trade Association of the musical instrument industry. It represents the full breadth of its sector including manufacturers, distributors, retailers, publishers and educators.

Music Manifesto

www.musicmanifesto.co.uk
Music Manifesto campaigns to ensure that all children and young people have access to high quality music education. It is based on five key aims: to provide every young person with first access to a range of music experiences; to provide more opportunities for young people to deepen and broaden their musical interests and skills; to identify and nurture our most talented young musicians; to develop a world class workforce in music education; to improve the support structures for young people making music.

Musikscool

www.musikscool.co.uk
Musikscool is designed to provide a rich learning experience for young people applying for university places and jobs. It provides young people with a chance to learn about themselves and to receive direct personal feedback on how they measure up on some key criteria that would be relevant to a future employer.

National Association of Music Educators

www.name.org.uk
NAME is the professional association representing all involved in music education. Its members include classroom and instrumental teachers, advisers, inspectors, heads of music services, ITE lecturers, community musicians and consultants. The Association's mission is to support high-quality music education for everyone.

National Association of Youth Orchestras

www.nayo.org.uk
The National Association of Youth Orchestras was formed in order to represent youth orchestras throughout the UK and to foster their development. Its membership is open to all such organisations including student orchestras, chamber orchestras, symphonic, wind and jazz orchestras and chamber music ensembles, whether independent or under the control of local authorities or music services.

National Campaign for the Arts

www.artscampaign.org.uk
NCA is the UK's only independent campaigning organisation representing all the arts, working to protect and promote the sector and acting as a powerful advocate. NCA works to promote the importance of creativity and the arts across the whole school curriculum and campaigns for better access to the arts so that everyone in the UK has opportunities to experience the arts and to take part.

National Youth Music Theatre

www.nymt.org.uk
National Youth Music Theatre exists to produce challenging music theatre work for young people of all backgrounds as participants. NYMT helps young people to explore new and existing works, and gives them an opportunity to achieve their highest aspirations by realising their talent, imagination and creativity.

National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain

www.nyo.org.uk
The NYO brings brilliant young musicians together for an incredible creative experience and inspires audiences with fresh powerful performances.

Newham Music

www.newham-music.org.uk
Newham Music Trust is committed to supporting music in schools and the wider community. It caters for all pupils, from its inclusive whole class tuition programme, through to group and individual lessons and a wide range of ensembles.

North Somerset Music Service

www.n-somerset.gov.uk/musicservice
The North Somerset Music Service is responsible for programmes, courses, support and structures to give every child and young person in North Somerset the opportunity to interact with music and develop their skills.

Northumberland Creative & Performing Arts

http://education.northumberland.gov.uk/music
The purpose of Northumberland Creative & Performing Arts is to enhance the quality of life in Northumberland by increasing the quantity, range and quality of creative and performing arts available to all young people.

Norwich & Norfolk Community Arts

www.norcaarts.co.uk
Norwich & Norfolk Community Arts has established itself as a major community arts provider in Norwich and Norfolk. Its focus on community development has given it a unique perspective in the field.

Nottingham Music School

www.nottinghammusicschool.org.uk
NMS provides welcoming, accessible and appropriate ensemble opportunities for Nottingham's Young People.

Numu

www.numu.org.uk
NUMU is a free website and community for schools and organisations to deliver engaging music activities online. Students can safely publish music, join projects and compete in a unique national chart.

O2 Arena

www.theo2.co.uk
www.britishmusicexperience.com
The arena at The O2 truly creates a new benchmark in what both fan and performer can and should expect from a rock or pop concert in the UK. The O2 arena can be transformed from a concert venue into a breathtaking world-class sporting arena within hours and will proudly host major events throughout the year.

Open University and Trinity Guildhall Key Stage 2 Music CPD Programme

www.ks2music.org.uk
This innovative, integrated programme of web-based materials, workshops and personal mentoring has so far supported over 3000 teachers in developing the skills and understanding needed to realise the Government's commitment that, over time, all primary school children will have the opportunity to learn a musical instrument.

Philips High School, Manchester

www.philips.bury.sch.uk

Plymouth Youth Music Service

www.plymouthyouthmusic.org.uk
Plymouth Youth Music Service is helping to bring Plymouth schools an outstanding learning resource that combines music teaching expertise with innovations in music ICT.

The Prince's Foundation for Children & the Arts

www.childrenandarts.org.uk
The Prince's Foundation for Children & the Arts is an educational charity committed to helping children experience the arts in a high quality and sustained way. It provides access for young people who would otherwise grow up having had no or very limited opportunity to engage with the arts. Children who take part are drawn from both urban and rural areas of deprivation and come from a variety of backgrounds.

POP Project

www.popproject.co.uk
Pop Project provides innovative interactive music experiences for primary school pupils in the North West of England.

Portsmouth Music Service

www.portsmouthmusicservice.org
Portsmouth Music Service aims to provide a wealth of musical opportunities to ensure happier, more musical, successful, confident and self-assured young people in the city.

Practice-a-thon Music

www.clicsargent.org.uk/music
Practice-a-thon Music with Take it away' is a unique partnership between Arts Council England and children's cancer charity CLIC Sargent. The campaign encourages people of all ages and abilities to get sponsored to practice their musical instruments – with the help of free online tutorials - to raise money for children and young people with cancer.

Pure Solo

www.puresolo.com
PureSolo is an online music store which lets you record your own, personal versions of well-known tracks to own, keep and share. Only PureSolo allows you to record and own your music like this.

Qualifications & Curriculum Development Agency

www.qcda.gov.uk
The QCDA's role is to develop the curriculum, improve and deliver assessments, and review and reform qualifications - to ensure everyone can get the knowledge, skills and qualifications they need for life in the 21st century.

Random Dance

www.randomdance.org
The company has become a byword for its radical approach to new technology - incorporating animation, digital film, 3D architecture, electronic sound and virtual dancers into live choreography.

Ravenswood Primary School, Newcastle

www.ravenswood.newcastle.sch.uk

Redbridge Music Service

www.redbridgemusic.org.uk
Redbridge Music Service provides a wide range of instrumental and vocal tuition in schools throughout the borough.

Richmond Music Trust

www.richmondmusictrust.org.uk
Richmond Music Trust provides small group and individual instrumental tuition to schools for over 3000 children each week, as well as to an additional 2500 through our classroom - based Wider Opportunities programme. The Trust provides music support and advice to all primary, secondary and special schools in the borough and organises many large and small scale events throughout the year. Its Music Therapy department provides therapy to a wide range of clients from across the borough.

Rochdale Music Service

www.rochdalemusicservice.org.uk
The Rochdale Music Service seeks to provide the opportunity and access to musical activities that meet the needs of individual schools and the wider community of the borough.

Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra

www.liverpoolphil.com
The Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra is the UK's oldest surviving professional symphony orchestra.

Royal Opera House

www.roh.org.uk
The Royal Opera House has charitable status and is a national institution seeking to involve and engage with as many people as possible.

Sage Gateshead

www.thesagegateshead.org
The Sage Gateshead is an international home for music and musical discovery, bringing about a widespread and long-term enrichment of the musical life of the North East of England. Its inclusive approach enables all of its performance, learning and participation programmes to be constantly inspired and supported by each other.

Sheffield Music Service

www.sheffield.gov.uk/musicservice
The Sheffield Music Service (SMS) Central Ensembles provides the opportunity for around 800 children to rehearse and perform together in over 20 ensembles ranging from post-beginner groups to some of the most respected senior ensembles in the UK

Sing Up

www.singup.org
Sing Up is the Music Manifesto National Singing Programme, produced by Youth Music, with AMV-BBDO, Faber Music and The Sage Gateshead. Sing Up aims to provide all primary school-aged children in England with the opportunity to experience high quality singing activity as part of their everyday lives.

Solihull Music Service

www.solihull.gov.uk/musicservice
Solihull Music Service is committed to working in partnership with schools and pupils to assist them in all forms of music making. It also enriches the lives of pupils and the community through the provision of a wide range of music making opportunities.

Somerset Music

somersetmusic@somerset.gov.uk
Somerset Music is a network of 90 visiting instrumental tutors, providing instrumental and voice tuition for about 6,000 pupils in schools across Somerset, and offers low-cost instrument hire for pupils who need it.

Sound Sense

www.soundsense.org
Sound Sense is a membership organisation that provides support to organisations and individuals who help people make music in their communities, through leading music workshops and teaching.

Southampton Music Services

www.southamptonmusic.org.uk
Southampton Music Services, part of Southampton City Council's Children's Services and Learning, is responsible for supporting music in schools, for peripatetic instrumental and vocal tuition and for the bands, choirs and orchestras in the city available to children and young people. Over the years, Southampton has built up a reputation as the finest city in the country for music provision.

Southbank Centre

www.southbankcentre.co.uk
Southbank Centre's wide-ranging programme: classical & world music, rock & pop, jazz, dance, literature and the visual arts, attracts the most diverse audience of any UK venue. Southbank Centre consists of the Royal Festival Hall, the Hayward Gallery, Queen Elizabeth Hall and the Saison Poetry Library.

Specialist Schools and Academies Trust

www.ssatrust.org.uk
The Specialist Schools and Academies Trust (SSAT), is an independent, not-for-profit membership organisation dedicated to raising levels of achievement in secondary education. It aims to give practical support to transforming secondary education in England by building and enabling a world-class network of innovative, high-performing secondary schools in partnership with business and the wider community.

Staffordshire Performing Arts

www.staffordshire.gov.uk/spa
Staffordshire Performing Arts provides music and dance services to Staffordshire schools. It teaches over 22,000 children and young people aged 4-19 weekly through its instrumental and curriculum programmes and innovative new K2M scheme.

St. John's, Marlborough, Wiltshire

www.stjohns.wilts.sch.uk
St. John's, Marlborough, Wiltshire is a comprehensive school, 11-19. It has an Arts Mark Silver and a thriving music department which holds regular lunchtime and evening concerts throughout the year. In addition it runs several musical ensembles: Savernake Ensemble, St. John's Orchestra, St. John's Jazz Band, Savernake Singers.

Surrey Arts

www.surreycc.gov.uk/arts
Surrey Arts teaches music to over 10,000 pupils every week, employs 250 professional tutors and offers music lessons on all orchestral instruments in 220 schools in Surrey.

Teaching Music

www.teachingmusic.org.uk
Teaching Music is the OFSTED recommended online community and resource sharing network for everyone involved in music education. With support from NAME, MEC, DCSF, MIA and the whole music education sector, Teaching Music is the place for music educators.

Tees Valley Music Service

www.stockton.gov.uk/citizenservices/learning/Schoolmusicservice
Tees Valley Music Service is dedicated to providing professional instrumental & vocal tuition to school age children in the Tees Valley area.

Telford & Wrekin Music

www.telfordculturezone.com
Telford Culture Zone is an exciting, dynamic organisation within Telford & Wrekin Council. It provides a wide range of arts and cultural services to people in Telford including Telford & Wrekin Music and Telford Dance Festival.

Tower Hamlets Arts & Music Education Service

www.musicservice.tower-hamlets.lgfl.net
Tower Hamlets Arts & Music Education Service (THAMES) provides a range of free support for all schools in Tower Hamlets. It runs ensembles after school and also has a Saturday Music Centre.

Training & Development Agency for Schools

www.tda.gov.uk
The Training and Development Agency for Schools (TDA) is the national agency and recognised sector body responsible for the training and development of the school workforce.

Trinity College London

www.trinitycollege.co.uk
Trinity College London, the international examinations board incorporating Trinity Guildhall, offers accredited qualifications in English language and the performing and creative arts.

UK Music

www.ukmusic.org
UK Music is an umbrella organisation representing the collective interests of the UK's commercial music industry, from artists, musicians, songwriters and composers, to major and independent record labels, managers, music publishers, studio producers and collecting societies.

The Voices Foundation

www.voices.org.uk
National music education charity The Voices Foundation, will be delivering its unique whole school singing programme in over 80 primary schools throughout England in 2009/10, reaching around 28,000 children.

Warwickshire County Music Service

www.warwickshire.gov.uk/musicforlife
Warwickshire County Music Service believes that every child's music matters and it is the right of all young people to experience music making. Its activities are designed to reach as many young people as possible.

Worcestershire Youth Music

www.worcestershire.gov.uk/music
Worcestershire Youth Music has been in existence in some form within the Local Authority for over fifty years and has an established reputation for the high quality of its tuition and performance activities. Opportunities for instrumental and vocal tuition are available in schools and music centres throughout the County and Worcestershire Youth Music is currently developing its successful whole class, inclusive Wider Opportunities pilots into "Play2learn", a fully-fledged scheme designed to increase the numbers of young people learning instruments.

Wren Music

www.wrenmusic.co.uk
Wren's mission is to work with traditional music to inspire creativity and celebrate cultural identities.

Yamaha

www.yamaha-music.co.uk
Through constant innovation and technological leadership, Yamaha has grown to be the world's largest and most successful maker of quality musical instruments. Music education is at the heart of the Yamaha philosophy and currently 170,000 students are studying in Yamaha Music Schools worldwide.

Young Voices

www.youngvoicesconcerts.com
Over 70,000 children perform with Young Voices at live concerts across the country every year in choirs of between five and eight thousand children. School choirs learn an exciting repertoire of different genres of music through the autumn term and then come together in the largest arenas in the UK to perform with guest artists.

Youth Dance England

www.yde.org.uk
Youth Dance England is the national organisation that champions and promotes dance for children and young people. It works to ensure that dance is available to all, both in and out of school settings. Through strategic partnerships, its aim is to increase access, raise standards and improve progression routes in dance.

Youth Music

www.youthmusic.org.uk
Youth Music works with some of the UK's most disadvantaged young people, providing free access to high quality music making. It is the UK's largest children's music charity and since 1999, it has reached over 2 million children and young people, helping to transform their lives through the power of music.

Youth Music Theatre UK

www.ymtuk.org
Youth Music Theatre UK was founded in 2003 by a group of experienced and committed directors, administrators, pastoral staff, young people and parents determined to create a dynamic, vibrant and participatory company which could bring together young people from around the UK in musical theatre projects. It is now the UK's biggest provider of musical theatre projects for young people.

Zone New Media

www.zonenewmedia.net
Zone New Media is an entrepreneurial music education company based in the UK. It provides professional development, educational resources and an innovative range of internet services for the music, music education and community sectors.