Our Aims

Our central aim is to provide musical opportunities for all children and young people in North Tyneside by providing a diverse and inclusive range of high-quality, accessible musical experiences. We achieve this by:

Delivering a wide range of first access experiences in schools and in the community.

Building clear progression routes from the early years to young adulthood by providing access to a range of musical instruments and projects in a range of musical styles and genres.

Creating and building our existing partnerships with other local, regional and national arts and music organisations.

We strive to:

Provide a broad, balanced and progressive range of musical opportunities.
Be fully inclusive and supportive of all learners, regardless of circumstance.
Create projects and activities to ensure the development of high-quality learning.
Work with all schools and educational settings in North Tyneside, encouraging all young people, teachers, classroom assistants and parents to engage in and support high-quality music making in all North Tyneside.
Meet all aims of the National Plan for Music Education to enable all learners to achieve their personal best.

North Tyneside Music is hub lead organisation for the North-East Music Hub, one of 42 music hubs in England funded by the Department for Education and managed by Arts Council England. Funding for all music hub localities is based on the number of children aged 5-16 living in each demographic area. More information about funding for music hubs can be found at:

Music Hubs | Arts Council England