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Inspirational projects

Since 2011 we have supported more than 80 inspirational projects reaching over 13,000 young people.

These ambitious music education projects across a diverse range of genres provide 7-18 year olds with outstanding opportunities to perform alongside top professional musicians in iconic venues. You can read about the Partnership projects we have funded, and their legacies, below.

The next deadline for Partnership Project applications is Wednesday 11th June!

We welcome applications from London Music Hubs, for inspiring partnership projects in collaboration with professional arts organisations. Grants are awarded for up to £15,000 per project, and must be led by one London music service with at least one other professional partner.

For more information on how to apply please email kate@londonmusicfund.org for an application form and guidelines.

Our Partnership projects are supported by The Karlsson Játiva Charitable Foundation, through the Signatur programme for the advancement of the art of music.

New Projects Announced for 2024/25!

We are delighted to announce our new partnership projects for 2024/25:

Lewisham Music: Jazz Hang - New Levels

Wandsworth Music Academy: Better Together

Waltham Forest Music Service: Pulse and Pattern

Croydon Music and Arts: Coleridge Taylor and the Multi Verse Remix

Bromley Youth Music Trust: Strike Up The Band

We would like to thank The Karlsson Játiva Charitable Foundation for their generosity in funding these exciting partnerships, which have such a lasting impact on their participants and communities.

Lewisham Music: Jazz Hang - New Levels

Lewisham Music, Tomorrow’s Warriors and Trinity Laban will collaborate to inspire, teach and nurture young musicians aged ten upwards from diverse backgrounds through a programme of practical engagement in jazz. Bringing together a large community of young musicians, the project will engage participants in weekly after-school sessions, bridging events, performances and masterclasses led by inspirational music leaders from Tomorrow’s Warriors and emerging music educators from Trinity Laban. Engagement with local primary schools across the year will enable exploration of barriers and progression pathways from schools into community music, building on the partnerships developed through Jazz Hang: Sounds of the Next Gen.

Wandsworth Music: Better Together

Wandsworth Music and the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra are teaming up to develop music making opportunities for SEN/D students from the borough of Wandsworth. BEYOND (an ensemble created to give SEN/D students the opportunity to engage with ensemble playing regularly) will form the core of this project, devising music and visual art to express their thoughts and feelings around climate change and togetherness under the leadership of music educationalist, Paul Griffiths. The project will engage five Special Schools in workshops delivered by RPO musicians and Wandsworth Music specialist tutors alongside mainstream secondary school pupils and the BEYOND Ensemble, culminating in a performance at the Royal Albert Hall.

Waltham Forest Music Service: Pulse and Pattern

Waltham Forest Music Service is partnering with African arts specialists Mbilla Arts and GB Carnival to deliver percussion project Pulse and Pattern. The project will provide continuation, progression and performance opportunities for primary school pupils learning percussion instruments. Mbilla Arts will deliver inspirational performances and training for teachers in four Waltham Forest primary schools, enabling participating schools to establish percussion groups which will learn specially prepared repertoire for performances alongside Mbilla Arts musicians at the WFMS Summer Festival 2025 and the Leyton Mas in partnership with GB Carnival.

Croydon Music and Arts: Coleridge-Taylor and the Multi Verse Remix

Students from Croydon Music & Arts will team up with professional musicians from the Multi-Story Orchestra to co-create bold new music inspired by the works of Samuel Coleridge-Taylor. Celebrating his 150th birthday, these dynamic compositions will premiere at Fairfield Halls in July 2025. Guided by a diverse team of mentors, each piece will reflect different genres of music such as Carnatic fusion, Gospel, R&B, Funk, Rap and Music Production. A broad crosssection of students will contribute to the co-creation phase, from inclusive ensembles to CMA’s Jazz Band and Rock Bands.

Bromley Youth Music Trust: Strike Up The Band

BYMT will run a beginner wind band programme, introducing 64 Year 4 children to the joys of learning a brass or wind instrument in partnership with The Royal Corps of Army Music and The Music Hub. Starting with an Inspire concert delivered by The Royal Corps of Army Music and BYMT musicians – performing to the selected children in Year 4, this concert will be followed by intensive training in small group and full ensemble settings. Further into the project, the students will have the opportunity to see the Army musicians they saw at school on the inside of Buckingham Palace grounds (The King’s eye view) during the Changing of the Guard ceremony. Finally, the children will take part in a Gala Performance with the new musicians now as part of a whole larger band performing side-by-side with The Royal Corps of Army Music and BYMT musicians in November 2025.