Youth Music supports 350 projects across England every year, reaching 75,000 children and young people in challenging circumstances, including those living with poverty, disability, mental health issues or living in care.

We invest in music-making projects where they’re really needed. We bring opportunities for children to learn a new musical genre into a town where not much happens, support ground-breaking initiatives in deprived parts of cities and respond to difficult challenges like young people at risk of radicalisation.

Communities divided by prejudice or gangs can be brought together to perform. Writing lyrics can enable a bereaved teenager to express their grief. Making hip-hop beats can help a kid understand maths in a way they never grasped at school.

Being young can be hard. And we know that troubles don’t end the moment you hit 18. That’s why we work with children and young people from the moment they’re born up until the age of 25.