Music Hub Investment Programme
We’re investing over £101 million in new Music Hub Lead Organisations on behalf of the Department for Education to ensure every child in England has access to high quality music opportunities in and outside of school.
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What are Music Hubs?
Music Hubs are partnerships of schools, local authorities, community groups, music organisations, industry and more. They are coordinated by a Hub Lead Organisation.
Music Hubs deliver and support high quality music education for children and young people within a local area, covering every part of England between them.
On behalf of the Department for Education, we’ve been searching for new Hub Lead Organisations who will lead a new generation of Music Hubs from September 2024.
On Monday 8 April 2024, we notified applicants of the outcomes of that process. We will publicly announce the new Hub Lead Organisations in early May, after the pre-election period for local elections has ended.
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£101m investment
£101m investment
43 new Hub Lead Organisations will share more than £76m to coordinate music education through strategic partnerships in the 2024-2025 academic year.
There will also be an additional £25m to invest in new musical instruments, equipment and technology, including instruments for children and young people with special education needs or disabilities.
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This investment of more than £100m will help Hubs to deliver music lessons in schools and outside of schools. It will support them to run music ensembles, provide music training for teachers and more.
This helps us to achieve the ambitions of the National Plan for Music Education and our 2020-30 strategic vision, Let’s Create, of ensuring the creativity of all children and young people is valued and given the chance to flourish, no matter who they are, where they go to school, or where they spend their free time.
How did we get here?
How did we get here?
The National Plan for Music Education, ‘The power of music to change lives’, set out how the government plans to build on the success of Music Hubs.
The National Plan also announced that we would carry out an investment process on behalf of the Department for Education to appoint new Hub Lead Organisations.
Throughout this process, we worked with the music, education, youth, creative and cultural sectors to learn how we might build on the success of the Music Hubs programme. Their expertise and knowledge helped to shape the Music Hubs Investment Programme and the new Music Hub areas.
What's next?
What’s next?
We have notified applicants of the results the Music Hub Investment Programme. We have done this under embargo due to the pre-election period ahead of local elections, which requires a pause in communicating government funding publicly. We will publicly announce the new Hub Lead Organisation in early May.
The new Music Hub programme will be in place from September 2024.
London South West and South Yorkshire
London South West and South Yorkshire
To ensure the delivery of high quality music education right across England, we are continuing the search for new Hub Lead Organisations in two Music Hub areas: London South West and South Yorkshire.
Any organisation is welcome to apply to become the new Hub Lead Organisation for each area. Applicants will need to submit their applications to us by midday on Thursday 6 June. We will let organisations know the outcome of their application in July so they are ready to begin their role in September 2024.
We’ll publish information about how you can apply on our website in the week commencing Monday 22 April.
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Music Hubs: Let's Create opportunity
Let's Create opportunity
Our Chief Operating Officer, Richard Russell, reflects on how the Music Hub Investment Programme will deliver more and better music education for all children and young people in England, helping us achieve our strategy for 2020-30, Let’s Create.