Grants


MORE MUSIC GRANTS


n UNIVERSAL MUSIC UK SOUND FOUNDATION Up to £1,500 available to individual schools to improve access to music education. Funding is also available for teacher CPD and individuals umuksoundfoundation.com/ awards/


n PAUL HAMLYN FOUNDATION The Foundation’s Teacher Development Fund offers up to £150,000 over two years for arts-based teaching and learning (including music) in primary classrooms phf.org.uk/funds/tdf/


n THE RADCLIFFE TRUST Funding for classical music performance and training theradcliffetrust.org/music- grants/


n RONNIE SCOTT’S CHARITABLE FOUNDATION Offers up to £10,000 for jazz education foundation.ronniescotts. co.uk/grants/


n PHILIP BATES TRUST Awards of up to £500 to encourage the pursuit of artistic achievement, or to support projects which develop creative interests in young people. Favours applications from within the West Midlands philipbatestrust.co.uk/ financial-support-2/


n DAVID MORGAN MUSIC TRUST Music grants for the Bromsgrove area of the West Midlands davidmorganmusictrust.org/ grants


n THE SARAH NULTY POWER OF MUSIC FOUNDATION Offers local music grants in Sheffield thesarahnultypowerofmusic foundation.co.uk


The National Schools Singing Programme is being rolled out across the country


KEEPING UP THE CHORAL TRADITION: THE NATIONAL SCHOOLS SINGING PROGRAMME


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stablished by the Diocese of Leeds more than a decade ago, the Schools Singing Programme has grown to


become a leading choral provision, reaching 6,000 children weekly in around 150 choral groups. These include the six choirs of Leeds Cathedral and the Boys’ and Girls’ choirs in Bradford, Keighley, Huddersfield, Wakefield and Pontefract – some of the most deprived areas of Yorkshire. Now, £3.95million in funding


from the Hamish Ogston Foundation is enabling the project to be rolled out to Catholic primary and secondary schools across the


country as the National Schools Singing Programme. Entrepreneur Hamish Ogston CBE – whose Foundation funds projects in music, health and heritage – was himself a chorister and is keen to support the choral tradition. According to the Foundation’s music project director Jo Clunie: ‘The preservation of the choral tradition in the UK starts with ensuring children are exposed to music and singing at a young age. The National Schools Singing Programme offers children a progression route from singing in school to singing in after school choirs and ultimately to singing


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