Press release: The Family Music Hub secures a £100k Youth Music Grant

New grant from Youth Music establishes The Family Music Hub (TFMH) as a leading national organisation for Family Music training and support
The Family Music Hub – transforming music-making with families

by Nicola Burke, Rosie Adediran and Katie Neilson When families with young children congregate, music and singing tends to happen! Whether it’s at the local children’s centre stay and play, a 5-minute sing-song at the end of a toddler group in the local church hall, a “rhyme time” session at the local library, singing and […]
New National Plan for Music extended to early years
Early Education welcomes the news that the new National Plan for Music Education has been extended to cover the early years. We are glad to see that this includes recognition that many early years practitioners are not music specialists and an extension of the role of Music Hubs to include supporting the early years sector. […]
The Family Music Hub – early childhood practitioners set to benefit from an exciting new initiative

Press release: May 2022 Early Education and Early Childhood Music practitioners Katie Neilson, Rosie Adediran and Nicola Burke are pleased to announce they have been awarded funding to develop a brand new initiative – The Family Music Hub. This new initiative seeks to explore existing early childhood music (ECM) practice and collaboratively develop new ways […]
Making a noise for music

The role of music in the early years Everyone knows how much young children love to sing and dance, but all too often music is thought of as something which only a few specially talented or gifted people will be good at. And it is children’s experiences of music in the early years which have […]