About Music Start
Music Start
Music Start is a fun, easy to use pack developed by Youth Music to help families with 2-5 year olds make music at home. Youth Music has developed the Music Start pack as part of its commitment to early years music making.
The resource has been funded by the Department for Culture, Media and Sport, and the Department for Children, Schools and Families. Music Start is part of the Music Manifesto National Singing Programme. For more info, visit www.singup.org.
Initially the packs are being made available for free to 100,000 families through Sure Start Children's Centres in 25 local authority areas:
- Barking and Dagenham
- Birmingham
- Bradford
- City of Bristol
- Derbyshire
- Doncaster
- Durham
- Hackney
- Haringey
- Kent
- Kirklees
- Lancashire
- Leeds
- City of Leicester
- Liverpool
- Manchester
- Middlesborough
- Newham
- City of Nottingham
- Nottinghamshire
- Sandwell
- Sheffield
- Southwark
- Tower Hamlets
- Waltham Forest
Parents
If you are a parent living in one of these areas, your local Sure Start Children's Centre will inform you when the packs are available.
Practitioners
If you work for a Sure Start Children's Centre in one of the above areas, but have not received an order form, please email musicstart(at)youthmusic.org.uk
Please note:
Only Sure Start Children's Centres in the above 25 areas are currently entitled to Music Start packs, however Youth Music want to make the packs available for all families. To be notified about the wider distribution of Music Start, please sign up for the Bongo Club newsletter.
Youth Music
Youth Music exists to facilitate and fund high quality and diverse musical experiences for young people up to the age of 18, particularly those living in areas of social and economic need.