ReWired Project
National Youth Voice Survey
The ReWired survey has gathered information about existing youth voice activities in music education across England for the first time. Learn More +
Wigmore Hall Learning
Wigmore Hall’s renowned Learning programme reaches a broad and diverse audience through innovative creative projects, concerts, events…
Activity Areas
Heart Beats Music
Heart Beats music is a Somerset club for younger adults with learning disabilities. They run music sessions that challenge rural isolation.
Living Song
Living Song aims to challenge limiting assumptions about what young people can achieve and gives young leaders centre stage.
Arts Council England
Arts Council England champions, develops and invests in artistic and cultural experiences that enrich people’s lives.
Hertfordshire Music Service
Hertfordshire Music Service is one of the country’s largest Local Authority music services with over 560 instrumental and vocal teache…
Get It Loud In Libraries
Over the last 9 years the Get It Loud In Libraries live programme has drawn an audience of over 28,000 people into libraries across the UK.
Sage Gateshead
Sage Gateshead is an international home for music and musical discovery, bringing about long-term enrichment of the musical life of the Nort…
Wired4Music
Wired4Music, hosted by Sound Connections, is a unique engagement programme for young Londoners who are passionate about music.
Serious
Serious aims to inspire and innovate with everything it does. Their Learning & Participation programme brings professional artists and …
Rhythmix
Rhythmix is a music and social welfare charity that provides opportunities for music making for people in challenging circumstances.
NYMAZ
Rhythmix is a music and social welfare charity that provides opportunities for music making for people in challenging circumstances.
Bristol Plays Music
Bristol Plays Music is the music education hub for Bristol, promoting access to music education activities for all young people.
Brighter Sound
Brighter Sound pioneer new ways to explore music making, with an interest in the spaces that exist between what is already on offer.
soundLINCS
In partnership with local, regional & national organisations soundLINCS develops high quality music-making opportunities for all ages.
Mac Birmingham
With one million visitors every year mac Birmingham has served as one of the country’s foremost arts centres for over 50 years.
BitterSuite
BitterSuite are exploring how to re-imagine the classical concert through the senses. They have already developed two original experiences.
Blaze
Blaze began in 2009 as an ambitious cultural project that became part of WE PLAY, the North West cultural legacy programme for London 2012.
Drake Music
Drake Music is a national arts charity working with a team of associate artists & technologists to deliver a programmes across England….
EFDSS
The English Folk Dance and Song Society is the national folk arts development organisation for England, championing traditional arts.
Arts Train
The ArtsTrain project began in September 2008 and was created and developed by the leading social enterprise Mytime Active.
The Garage
The Garage is a creative hub for Norfolk and beyond, supporting the creative journeys of participants, audiences and artists.
Organisations
We collected detailed responses from 22 organisations who together are engaging more than 5,000 young people each year.
Resources
Reports, videos and articles to inform and inspire.
Youth Engagement Equaliser
The Equaliser is a tool to help you learn more about Youth Voice & Participation, consider what you are already doing and identify aims for further development.
ReWired: Promo Video
Sound Connections and Wired4Music believe that youth voice is at the heart of all meaningful activity for young people. Watch this video to get an insight into the ReWired project and those who are contributing to it.
ReWired Literature Review
Young Researcher & Wired4Music member Siân Dicker-Thorne, shares the research into the field of youth voice undertaken to provide a foundation of knowledge for ReWired: a mapping project of best practice in youth voice in music across the country.
Data Report: Scoping National Youth Voice in Music
Young Researcher & Wired4Music Member, Siân Dicker-Thorne, lays out some of the survey findings from Rewired – a research project scoping national youth voice in music.
Youth Participation through Music
This briefing paper, written by former Sound Connections Programme Manager Lawrence Becko, describes how the principles of democratic participation can be applied in a musical context. The paper explains the process through which Wired4Music was developed, the benefits this has had for young people and the lessons the Sound Connections team learnt.
ReWired Survey - Executive Summary
Our National Youth Voice Survey collected information about Youth Voice activities from 22 organisations across the country. This executive summary brings together some of our early findings from an initial analysis of that data.
