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Building Buzz, Shaping Stories: Joss Meek on Music PR and Artist Growth

Discover music PR insights from Joss Meek, partner at Wired PR and judge for the Youth Music Awards 2025. Joss shares her career journey, practical advice for emerging artists, and tips on building authentic, long-term success in the music industry.

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Safeguarding Minimum Standards – Advice for Applicants

Learn how to meet Youth Music’s safeguarding minimum standards and strengthen your policies for funding applications.

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NextGen Wellbeing Resources

NextGen wellbeing support for young people in music. Find mental health resources, helplines and guidance from trusted organisations.

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Don’t Lose Out: Getting Paid When Your Music’s Played

Discover how Youth Music NextGen Fund sponsor PPL empowers you to earn royalties from your releases.

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Promote Your Project with Confidence: Why It Matters and How to Start

Promoting your project can feel awkward — but it shouldn’t. We explore why visibility matters and share practical, confidence-boosting tips from those doing it well.

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Safer Recruitment

Build a safer team. Explore essential resources on safer recruitment, DBS checks, and best practices for hiring staff and volunteers.

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Putting the Spotlight on Safeguarding

The Premier Academy - Improving the quality and sustainability of music making activities in early years settings across
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Safeguarding - Where to Start?

New to safeguarding or need a refresher? Explore key resources and expert guidance to strengthen your safeguarding practices.

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Safeguarding - Policies and Procedures

Strengthen your safeguarding approach with clear policies and procedures. Explore key resources to ensure best practices for your organisation.

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Safeguarding - Statutory Guidance

Ensure your safeguarding practices align with statutory guidance. Access key policies for working with children, adults at risk, and education settings.

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Safeguarding - Deep Dive

Explore in-depth safeguarding resources, training, and frameworks for organisations working with children, young people, and adults at risk.

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Developing a Safeguarding Culture

Build a safeguarding culture that goes beyond policies. Explore key resources, expert insights, and practical tools for safer spaces.

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Safeguarding Culture and Ways of Working

Safeguarding should be a mindset, not just a box-ticking exercise. Discover how to build a strong safeguarding culture.

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Safeguarding Hub

Discover Youth Music’s safeguarding expectations and access essential resources to ensure the safety and wellbeing of young people and adults in your care.

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Musical Development Matters in the Early Years

Explore our free resources for early years music education, to help support children's musical development

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Logos for NextGen Fund Recipients

Get the Youth Music logo in three colours, plus usage guidelines for your project’s marketing and publicity materials. Download now.

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How music businesses can drive internal change

We’ve designed this resource to help businesses to think through the steps they might take to drive change within their own organisations.

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Wellbeing, capacity and capability resources

Take a look at more resources that can support you with wellbeing, capability and capacity.

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Meet the Energiser Fund Recipients

Meet the 11 inspiring recipients of Youth Music’s Energiser Fund! These groundbreaking projects empower young children to co-create music, art, and movement, shaping the future of early years creativity.

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Characteristics of effective learning in music

The Characteristics of Effective Learning framework is from Development Matters, the non-statutory guidance material that support practitioners to implement the EYFS.