Exchanging Notes - Youth Music's Learning & Development Programme
In our nearly 25-year history, we’ve learnt a lot. Yet every day, we are still inspired by innovative ideas from projects and professionals in the Youth Music community. By sharing our collective knowledge and building new connections, we believe this community can spark sustainable, nationwide changes in sector practices.
Meaning even more young people can change their life through music. Exchanging Notes* is our learning programme, delivering the latest thinking and tools to be more sustainable, more diverse, and more effective in working with 0-25s.
Upcoming
How To Leverage Your Network For Fundraising Success (Sign up now)
Wednesday 15 May 11am-12pm
In today's ever-evolving funding landscape, relying solely on traditional avenues is no longer a sustainable strategy for small arts organisations seeking financial support. The key to long-term success lies in leveraging the potent force of your personal and professional network.
Join Jennie Cashman Wilson, former CEO of the Abram Wilson charity now coach, mentor and strategist for ambitious purpose-driven creatives with over 15 years of hands-on experience in the UK arts sector. Drawing from her journey of raising £1 million for the Abram Wilson charity through cultivating an expansive network, she will share her proven WASUP Framework – a five-step methodology to strategically nurture connections that can fuel sustainable income generation.
Bid Writing & Funder Relationships (Sign up now)
Wednesday 22nd May 11am-12pm
Join CEO of WILD Young Parents Project, Jo Davies who will give an introduction to effective bid writing and funder relationships. She specialises in vision and development, fundraising, strategic influencing, collaborative working, change management, and safeguarding. The session will be useful to everyone looking to get new ideas for their fundraising approach.
MORE TO BE ANNOUNCED SOON
Watch Back - Our Top Picks
Preventing Youth Violence with Creativity - Art Against Knives
The challenges of lyrical content in youth music work
Safeguarding with Rachel from TiPP
Disability Equality & Accessibility with Attitude is Everything
Youth voice hub (includes links to the sessions)
More information about Exchanging Notes
Sessions will be run by experts inside and outside our community, with an emphasis on championing underrepresented voices and diverse experiences. Session hosts will be paid, but attendance will be free. Due to no-shows, we are in the process of considering whether we start charging a small amount. Most will be open to everyone, but occasional sessions will just be for the projects we already fund.
So far we've covered: safeguarding, engaging 'hard to reach' young people, D/Deaf and Disability disclosure in the music industry, access and inclusion in the early years, LGBTQI+ and Trans Inclusion workshops and much more.
*Some of you will remember our four-year action research programme with Birmingham City University, also called Exchanging Notes. Like this new programme, the project was rooted in the power of bringing people together through music. This is an entirely separate initiative, but the name fit so well that we decided to give it a new lease of life. Think of it as a respectful remix!
Watch back all our publicly available Exchanging Notes sessions here