Music Education Hubs
Music Education Hubs help children and young people access music education and develop their musical interests and potential.
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.
What do Music Hubs do?
What do Music Hubs do?
The National Plan for Music Education sets out three aims for Music Hubs:
- To support schools and other education settings to deliver high-quality music education
- To support young people to further develop their musical interests and talent, including into employment
- 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.
Learn more about the National Plan in our FAQs >
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.
Hubs complete an annual survey for each year of funding.
Resources to support your work.
Answering all your questions about the current Music Hubs programme.
Music Hub Investment Programme
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.
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