West Midlands Music is a collective of 14 regional Music Services with a shared commitment to ensuring high quality, progressive and sustained music education for all children.
In 2024, the Department for Education created Multi Area Music Hubs. Despite this structural geographic change, the 14 Music Services of the West Midlands continue to be the local organisations working to support the music making of children and young people across the West Midlands.
West Midlands Music was named in the National Plan for Music 2022, recognised for its 800 Music Service staff that support the collective mission to deliver high quality, progressive and sustained music education for all children.
The Multi Area Hubs are:
Birmingham: A single area led by Services for Education.
The Black Country Music Hub: Dudley Performing Arts, SIPS Education, Walsall Music Education Service & Wolverhampton Music Service led by Dudley Metropolitan Borough Council.
Heart of England Music Hub: Coventry Music, Warwickshire Music & Solihull Music, with shared leadership.
Herefordshire and Worcestershire Music Hub: Encore Enterprises & Severn Arts, led by Severn Arts.
The Music Partnership: Entrust Music Service, Telford and Wrekin Music, Shropshire Music Service & City Music Service Stoke on Trent, led by Entrust.
By working together, West Midlands Music is committed to ensuring there is no ‘postcode lottery’ of music provision in the region. The Music Services align under established shared values for quality and manage change together with coherence and a shared vision for the West Midlands.
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Children Reached
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West Midlands Music has a combined reach of over 100,000 children and young people in over 2,000 schools, including special, primary, secondary and alternative provision settings. The 14 Music Services provide instrumental and vocal teaching, bands, musical groups, and curriculum support for schools. There is a sustained commitment to provide tuition and performance opportunities for every stage of a child’s musical journey. As local partners in the combined Multi Area Music Hubs they are the trusted providers in the region with partnerships to deliver a broad range of co-designed enrichment activity.
The collective was established in 2019 to amplify the reach of the individual Music Services, to speak as a single voice on music education in the West Midlands, to share best practice, and to celebrate and increase the depth, breadth and diversity of musical opportunities for children and young people across the entire region.
The benefits of music for improving children’s personal, social, emotional and educational development are widely known. Music Services guarantee teaching of the highest quality, in a safe learning environment, with music leaders who understand the evolving educational landscape. They provide value for money and trusted services for schools.
