our partners

Harrogate International Festival leads our consortium of five partners:
The other four partners are:
• Whitby Musicport
• Swaledale Festival
• Pied Piper, Ryedale
• Cube Media, York

The North Yorkshire Action Zone will work in partnership with a wide range of organisations to deliver its programme of work:

• Youth Music
• North Yorkshire County Council
• Craven District Council
• Hambleton District Council
• Richmondshire District Council
• Ryedale District Council
• Scarborough Borough Council
• The North Yorkshire Moors
National Park Authority
• The Yorkshire Dales Millennium Trust
• Lloyds TSB Foundation
• The PRS Foundation

• Dales Jam

• Selby High School

• Connexions

• Leeds College of Music

what are we working
towards?

tune-in has been created to respond to the particular needs of the rural community in North Yorkshire. Our aims and objectives include the following:
• To establish a legacy of music-making opportunities in areas of social and economic need.
• Improve the overall standards of music-making across all music styles and genres.
• Champion the value of music-making; proving that music has an invaluable part to play in advancing the educational and social development of young people.
• To establish the value of music-making opportunities as a force for regeneration in communities, fostering social inclusion and community cohesion.

youth music -
the national vision

Youth Music is a young persons music charity set up in 1999 to promote music making opportunities and to provide advice to those with the least access.

The organisation has three main roles; funder, development agency and advocate. Their aim is to establish a music-making legacy that fulfils the following key objectives:
 
access - For those with least opportunity breadth - Music of all styles and all cultures coverage - Rural, urban, coastal and
UK-wide development - music leaders getting better at what they do quality - Encouraging high standards for all

Since December 2000, Youth Music has set up 24 Action Zones. They cover all genres of music and deliver a wide range of activities, including workshops, rehearsals, performances, one-to-one teaching and mentoring.
See www.youthmusic.org.uk
for more information.

By 2010 Youth Music aims to have reached 3 million children and young people in a nationwide strategy to support youth music-making.

partnership/funding
Youth Music receives £10m a year National Lottery funding through Arts Council England. It has also levered in more than £13.7m in partnership funding from other sources.