Youth Music Grant Supporting Young People

We’re delighted to say that Youth Music have awarded us a new grant to support our work with young people in Youth Justice. Read more

Join the Yorkshire Youth & Music Board of Trustees

We're recruiting new trustees to support the ongoing development of the charity. Read more

Growing the Next Generation of Music Leaders

This summer, Yorkshire Youth and Music has been proud to support two trainee creative musicians, Lucy Davey and Morgan Thomas, as part of our Trainee Programme. The scheme is designed to give emerging practitioners hands-on experience across different projects, while learning from our team of experienced music leaders. Read more

Canoe Race Fundraiser Adds to Elizabeth Anne’s Legacy

Over the Easter weekend, three determined fundraisers – Tim, Laura and their head of support crew, Abi – took on one of the toughest endurance events in the world to raise money for charities close to their hearts, including Yorkshire Youth and Music. Read more

A Thank You to The Radcliffe Trust

We’re delighted to share that the Radcliffe Trust has awarded Yorkshire Youth and Music £5,000 to support our work at Sheffield Children’s Hospital, Becton School and Chapel House. Read more

An update on our Safe Space Studio

At Yorkshire Youth and Music, we support young people in challenging circumstances through creativity, care, and respect. In light of the recent Supreme Court ruling, we want to be clear: nothing in our practice or outlook has changed. Read more

Free Music Sessions in Batley

Live in Batley and interested in songwriting, music production, or learning to play keyboard? Read more

Arts Council England Grant to Support a New Training Programme

We’re delighted to announce that Yorkshire Youth and Music has been awarded a £37,000 grant from Arts Council England to support our ongoing commitment to nurturing the next generation of community musicians. Read more

New funding from The National Lottery Awards for All

We’re excited to announce that we’ve received a £20,000 grant from The National Lottery Awards for All Fund to support our work with young people through dedicated studio sessions. Read more

Deputy Mayor Alison Lowe OBE Visits Safe Space Studio

We were honoured to welcome Alison Lowe OBE, Deputy Mayor for Policing and Crime in West Yorkshire, to our Safe Space Studio last month, alongside her colleagues Paige and Joshua. Read more

The Ableton Push 3 is a hit in Dewsbury

The Ableton Push 3 has quickly become a key part of our weekly youth music sessions at Dewsbury Moor Sports Club... Read more

We're delighted to announce funding from the Garfield Weston Foundation

Garfield Weston has awarded Yorkshire Youth and Music funds over the next year to support us across our whole range of work with challenged young people in Yorkshire Read more

£5,000 Anonymous Donation

We were very excited to be approached by a representative of an anonymous donor, asking us for a ‘wish list’ to the value of £5,000... Read more

YYM receives further support from the Keith Howard Foundation

The Keith Howard Foundation has kindly and generously offered us another year of support in order to continue our work with some of the most challenged young people across the Yorkshire region, in partnership with Sheffield Children's Hospital, The Becton Centre and Chapel House Read more

YYM receives £20000 in further funding from two fantastic foundations

We're very pleased to announce further funding this year, enabling us to continue a number of music and arts-based projects with young people across the region during 2024. Read more

Yorkshire Youth and Music is sad to hear of the news of the death of Dave Price, OBE

Dave was one of the pioneers of community music, and worked for YYM as an evaluator of our 'Sounding Out' project. This is a sad loss for the music education sector and a loss for the education sector as a whole. Read more

Yorkshire Youth and Music receives further support from West Yorkshire Mayor's Fund

Yorkshire Youth and Music has successfully applied for further funding from the Mayor's Safer Communities Fund, awarded by West Yorkshire's Mayor, Tracy Brabin. Read more

Over £1000 raised in memory of Elizabeth Anne

The generous donations made in memory of talented and beloved musician, Elizabeth Anne (often known as Liz), have provided equipment in our new Safe Space Studio, a safe space for young people to create music together. Read more

A new 'Safe Space' studio for YYM

YYM has a brand new studio space! Safe Space Studio is a studio pod, purpose built especially for us by iKoustic Ltd, creating a quiet space for music recording and production Read more

The Keith Howard foundation is generously supporting our work with Sheffield Children's Hospital to continue...

The Keith Howard foundation has very generously supported our work with the Becton Centre and Sheffield Children's Hospital to continue, ensuring lots more young people get access to and benefit from our work. Read more

Thank you, Thornton & Ross, for funding us for another year!

We are very grateful to Thornton and Ross for their donation of a further £5000 from their Anti-Knife Crime Fund, enabling us to continue our work with referrals from Kirklees Youth Justice. Read more

Get Your Music Heard in 2023!

We've teamed up with Kirklees Year of Music 2023 to support young people from across the region to get their music and musical projects off the ground... Read more