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About Music Education Hubs

What are Music Hubs?

Music Hubs are partnerships that support, deliver and enable access to music education for children and young people within a local area. These partnerships are co-ordinated by a Hub Lead Organisation and can include schools, local authorities, community groups, music organisations, industry and more.

There is a Music Hub for every area of England so all children and young people can access high-quality music education.

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What do Music Hubs do?

What do Music Hubs do?

The National Plan for Music Education sets out three aims for Music Hubs:

  1. To support schools and other education settings to deliver high-quality music education 
  2. To support young people to further develop their musical interests and talent, including into employment
  3. To support all children and young people to engage with a range of musical opportunities in and out of school

The National Plan also outlines five strategic functions for Music Hubs: Partnerships, Schools, Progression and musical development, Inclusion, and Sustainability.

From September 2023, Music Hubs must develop a Local Plan for Music Education to explain how they’ll work with partners to design and deliver these aims and strategic functions.

About the National Plan for Music Education

In 2022, the Department for Education and Department for Culture, Media, and Sport published The power of music to change lives - a new National Plan for Music Education that sets out the Government’s priorities for music education.

You can find a guide to the National Plan and how parents, carers and young people can get involved on the Department for Education website.

Take a look >

Learn more about the National Plan in our FAQs >

Read our blog welcoming the National Plan >

Download posters about the National Plan for your school >
 

How can I get involved?

How can I get involved?

Find your local Music Hub using the resource on the right. Get in touch with them to learn about what they do and how you can get involved.

Resources for Music Hubs

Everything you need for your 2023-24 funding agreement.

The Music Works' new music hub. Image courtesy Lasalo Elia Photography. Credit Salo Elia.
Photo by The Music Works' new music hub. Image courtesy Lasalo Elia Photography. Credit Salo Elia.
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Hubs complete an annual survey for each year of funding.

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Photo by Hampshire Music Education Hub, Noyes Fludde. Photo Abby Roch.png
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Resources to support your work.

Artsmark - Northway Primary School
Photo by Artsmark - Northway Primary School. Photo (c) Xavier Fiddes / Northway Primary School.
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Answering all your questions about the current Music Hubs programme.

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Photo by Webster Primary School Artsmark
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Music Hub Investment Programme

Photo © Clive Tagg Lewisham Music Massed Voices, Southbank Centre

Music Hub Investment Programme

We’re investing in new Music Hub Lead Organisations on behalf of the Department for Education. New Hub Lead Organisations will coordinate expanded, more strategic Music Hubs from September 2024.

Want to learn more?

Learn how we’re making sure all children and young people can thrive through music.

Orchestras Live – Royal Philharmonic Orchestra Project with SEND Schools. Photo (c) Samantha Gostner.
Photo by Orchestras Live – Royal Philharmonic Orchestra Project with SEND Schools. Photo (c) Samantha Gostner.
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Find out what we’re doing to help every child experience amazing creativity and culture.

Children playing violins as part of an orchestra.
Photo by Children from Nottingham perform as part of In Harmony 2013. Photo © Alan Fletcher
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Photo by Studio Wayne McGregor & students from Weston College perform a dance response to Luke Jerram’s In Memoriam. Image © Finnbarr Webster
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