Our Board Members

Nottingham Music Service has 8 members on its Board of Trustees.

Our Partner Organisations

Nottingham Music Service works in collaboration with several partner organisations, including the ones mentioned below, to promote music in the city and contribute to the community.

Nottingham Music Tuition

NMT are our delivery partners, providing small group tuition across the city. Together with NMT, we identify gaps in music provision in schools to ensure that all Nottingham pupils can continue learning their instrument. We also support NMT with professional development. Our collaboration with NMT is a good example of how working with the private sector can promote an integrated approach to music provision.

Nottingham College

Nottingham College (Clarendon campus) is the new venue for our Saturday Music School (which includes our Robin Hood Youth Orchestra, RHYO Intermediate Orchestra and Band Factory). They have been great advocates of NMS, supporting us in various ways, including providing its venue and facilities for our annual singing competition & other smaller concerts. Our partnership is a mutually beneficial relationship, with NMS having access to a subsidised venue with fantastic facilities, and Nottingham College benefitting from a closer link with Nottingham City pupils.

University of Nottingham (UoN)

UoN supports the music hub in many ways. The university runs a fully assessed module that involves students spending a year engaging with and reflecting on First Access (whole class ensemble teaching) programmes in city schools.The practical experience is incredibly useful for the students, while NMS teachers benefit from the extra support in class. We are currently developing an exciting new project involving the Villiers String Quartet and the Associate Professor of Composition at UoN in city schools.

We are also collaborating with the university to offer a doctoral award funded by the Midlands Four Cities to study the impact of music on young people in deprived communities.

Nottingham City Schools

NMS runs and supports whole class ensemble tuition programmes in 77% of the Nottingham City primary schools. The programme could not be successful without collaboration from the schools, many of them are not just buying in provision but are active partners. They encourage and facilitate their pupils' participation in NMS progression routes and events, helping us create a culture of music making in the city.

We also have a Head Teachers’ advisory group that meets once a term to discuss the progress of music education in the city, identify problems and come up with creative solutions.

One Nottingham

One Nottingham is a partnership that brings togetherthe strengths and resources of the public, business, faith, voluntary and community sectors. They provide fantastic links for us with the city, especially the local music and creative arts industry. They also provide great performance opportunities and have supported creative projects, the most successful long-term project being the Young Creative Awards (YCA).

Our student-led Jazz Squad has become the house band for the YCA Awards Night. By linking our Noise from the Next Generation music competition with YCA, we have helped raise the profile of YCA and also increased entries to their Music Award.

NUSIC

NUSIC promotes upcoming musicians and new music in Nottingham. We have linked our young music competition 'Noise from the Next Generation' (NNG) with Nusic's Future Sound of Nottingham (FSN), with one of the prizes being automatic entry into the FSN semi-final. We also support NUSIC in their secondary school tour, which is offered free to city schools. The tour involves local musicians telling young people the challenges and joys of working in the music industry.

Jugendorchester Stadt Karlsruhe

The Jugendorchester Stadt Karlsruhe (JOK) is a youth orchestra from Karlsruhe, Nottingham’s twin city in Germany. They have a strong relationship with our Robin Hood Youth Orchestra (RHYO), sharing fantastic opportunities to play and perform together, not just in England but in Germany as well.

The residentials create an excellent opportunity for cultural exchange, and are arranged in such a way that encourages sharing repertoire, combining performances and swapping conductors, enabling the young people to form lifelong bonds. The partnership is highly valued by our young people and continues to become stronger, with a residential trip planned for RHYO to Germany in July 2019, which will be supported by the JOK. JOK's support for the residential significantly reduces the costs for us, making the trip much more affordable and inclusive.

Framework

NMS has partnered with Framework, a charity that helps homeless and vulnerable people, to help them raise its profile among our audience, primarily our young people, who have shown great support for the cause. We have also helped raise funds for the charity at our Christmas concert at Albert Hall in December 2017 and a concert at Peak Cavern in June 2017. Our ‘Jazz Squad’ performed at Framework’s Sleep Out event last year, which was also a great success.

The idea behind the partnership is to raise one another’s profile with our respective audiences and to support each other in fundraising and creating awareness about our work and its impact. We are looking forward to holding joint events and continuing to support one another.

Nottingham City Council

NCC have supported us for many years. At a time when council budgets are under significant pressure, they continue to support our work by supporting the costs for our head office at College Street Centre. They also provide opportunities for our young people to perform at city-wide events such as Hoodwinked 2018, Lord Mayor’s Parade, and support us in publicity and marketing.

MEHEM

We work closely with other music hubs through MEHEM (Music Education Hubs of the East Midlands). Basing the Certificate for Music Educators within MEHEM has been of real value, with the largest number of learners completing in July 2018.

We are also working on developing meaningful partnerships with organisations such as Nottingham Youth Orchestra, Baby People, Nottingham Trent University, Albert Hall, YMCA Digital, Confetti, National Youth Orchestra, Asian Arts Council, St Mary’s Church, St Peter’s Church, St John’s Church and Ultimate Flyby Orchestra (UFO).

Our Main Funders

We are grateful to our main funders for their support.

Policies & Procedures

Find out more about our organisation policies by downloading the files below. For more information on our photo consent guidelines, please refer to the Safeguarding Policy.

Annual Reports & Account

Click on the link below to download and read our Annual Reports & Account 2017.