We’re excited to announce that from April we are becoming a Furthering Talent
Ambassador Hub.
Working with Awards for Young Musicians we will continue to target and sustain even more young people’s emerging talent through individual support.
Funded by Youth Music and Arts Council England.
Furthering Talent has played a key role in creatively supporting lots of aspiring young musicians in Hull. I really look forward to expanding this further to enable us to help more young musicians on their musical journeys
Shelley Gabriel, Hull Music Hub Furthering Talent Lead
Furthering Talent Connect: Awards for Young Musicians announce new partnership phase with 10 Music Hubs
AYM are delighted to continue working with ten of their Furthering Talent partner Hubs in an exciting new phase of the programme running from April 2023 to March 2026.
Furthering Talent Connect will build on the longstanding relationship between AYM and 10 current Hub partners who will become Ambassador Hubs from April 2023, continuing the fantastic work of the last four and half years.
The Ambassador Hubs will be:
– Bradford
– Greater Manchester
– Hull
– Lewisham Music
– Resonate (Liverpool)
– Manchester
– The Music Partnership (Staffordshire, Telford and Stoke)
– Sheffield
– Sunderland
– Severn Arts (Worcestershire).
In this new phase, Furthering Talent Connect will further embed the principles of inclusive musical practice and child-led, personalised learning within partner Hubs and sector-wide.
Furthering Talent Connect comprises:
– 400 nominated young people will have individual instrumental or, for the first time, vocal tuition
– A Musical Progression Bursary per child to help achieve the goals they, with their teacher’s support, set themselves in their Individual Learning Plan (ILP) using the new Charanga hosted tool.
– Termly Get Togethers where diverse high-quality musical partners will develop their musical knowledge and skills, provide new experiences, connect them with peers, engage families and build belonging and community.
– An AYM Connector who will work two days per week, identifying hundreds more young people facing barriers to music making and connecting them to information and opportunities.
– Music leaders will be invited to termly Teachers’ Forums to reflect, discuss their students progress and share good practice.
AYM will also be recruiting 10 further Connector Hubs in early 2024 (more details in due course).
Find out more at www.a-y-m.org.uk/furthering-talent
