Funding Bodies
Esmée Fairbairn Foundation
Esmée Fairbairn Foundation is one of the largest independent grantmaking foundations in the UK. In 2005 they expect to make grants of £28 million across the UK.
Grants in four programme areas:
- Arts & Heritage
- Education
- Environment
- Social Change: Enterprise and Independence
Youth Music
Youth Music is a national charity set up in 1999 to provide high quality and diverse music-making opportunities for 0-18 year olds. It targets young people living in areas of social and economic need who might otherwise lack opportunity and predominantly supports activities which are held outside school hours.
The organisation has three main roles; funder, development agency and advocate. Our aim is to establish a music-making legacy that fulfils the following key objectives:
Access - For those with least opportunity
Breadth - Music of all styles and all cultures
Coverage - Rural, urban, coastal and UK-wide
Quality - Encouraging high standards for all
Youth Music receives £10m a year National Lottery funding through Arts Council England. It has also levered in more than £13.7m in partnership funding from other sources.
By 2010, Youth Music aims to have reached more than 3 million young people and their wider communities
