Laura Mvula’s been announced as the latest ambassador for Youth Music. Youth Music is an absolutely fantastic charity that works to support young people up and down the country through their projects. Whether or not you’ve heard of the charity before, they’ll almost certainly be running a project in your local area – we urge you to support this fantastic charity in any way you can, because it really does make a difference to the lives of thousands of young people from around the country. These are a few facts about Youth Music, what they do, and what they stand for –
- Youth Music believes that music-making is life-changing, and the charity wants the opportunity for music-making to be available to all children. Every year, Youth Music provides more than 90,000 young people with the chance to take part in a local music project. The charity supports almost 300 organisations around the country.
- Many of these children and young people face challenges in their lives including coping with disability, homelessness or living in care. Others simply need help to develop their full musical talent and potential.
- In addition to developing musical skills, Youth Music projects help young people to develop their creative and social skills, make positive contributions to their community and live happy, successful lives. Youth Music projects work across all musical genres.
- The charity knows that many more young people still need its help and continues to fundraise to realise its mission – to ensure that all children and young people have access to life-changing music-making opportunities.
- Youth Music recently launched its new fundraising campaign ‘Give a Gig’, asking music lovers, artists, promoters and venue owners to put on gigs and donate proceeds to Youth Music, or to donate some or all of the proceeds from pre-arranged gigs. Find out more about Give a Gig at www.giveagig.org.uk.
- Find out more about the work of Youth Music by visiting www.youthmusic.org.uk.