1. Home
  2. Services for Schools
  3. Nottinghamshire Music Hub
  4. Take Part

Awards for Young Musicians and Inspire Music Partnership

Inspire Music has been working in partnership with Awards for Young Musicians (AfYM) since 2017. Learn more about this fantastic collaboration and it's impact...

AfYM Notts April2019

Since 2017 Awards for Young Musicians (in partnership with Youth Music) has been working alongside Inspire Music to run the Furthering Talent programme, which supports almost 30 children across Nottinghamshire schools who wouldn’t otherwise be able to access music tuition, and have shown musical talent in their whole class music lessons. 

About the Furthering Talent programme

Furthering Talent is a programme that aims to get children from lower income backgrounds into music and offers funding to help them take up playing a musical instrument where it would not usually be possible. It is funded up to £2000 for each student by Awards for Young Musicians (AfYM) in partnership with Nottinghamshire Music Hub and Inspire Music.

How is the funding used?

The funding is typically spent on specialist instrumental in-school tuition for a half hour individual lesson every week. In addition to this, funding is used for all kinds of activities such as AfYM led ‘Get-Togethers’ with other talented students, workshops with professional musicians or going to watch professional musicians perform in recitals or concerts.

How do I know if a student is suitable for the programme?

Students are typically nominated after showing exceptional potential in Inspire Music led Whole Class Teaching lessons. 

The Nottinghamshire area coordinator  is andy.hatherly@a-y-m.org.uk, and he will be able to answer any questions you may have on the programme in our County. 


Watch how the Furthering Talent fund help and support HERE:

Find further details of the programme is on A-Y-M's Furthering Talent page HERE:


See below the programme's Nottinghamshire film which looks at identifying musical potential and how teachers can spot musical potential in a child when they are only ever working in a group setting. It challenges the concept that only a child who already shows some level of technical ability has potential. Some children may not have had access to music lessons, so the film looks at other indicators of potential such as enjoyment, expression and memory.