Resources & Publications

We're delighted to share with you the full report from our first Training the Community Musician symposium (TtCM19), delivered in partnership with Edinburgh Youth Music Forum and the University of Aberdeen

• Love Children, Love Music: a manifesto for early years music
• Music Minds: music-based mental health work with teenagers
• ‘Girls Can…’ A three-day residency at More Music
• EFDSS: supporting our network of folk educators
• Ssssh… don’t tell anyone… I’m a community musician!
• Western classical notation and music education

The Cultural Governance Alliance is a strategic collective of partners from across the cultural sector working to champion, share and promote best practice in the governance of culture. The Alliance's website has a Knowledge Library with a mixture of legal guidance, reports, toolkits and other documents that can help your journey towards better governance.

The Culture, Health and Wellbeing Alliance has produced a handy online guide to Social Prescribing.

YAMSEN:SpeciallyMusic has produced a new set of resources for children and young people with additional needs called Earwiggo Barging

Sound Sense member, Yorkshire Youth and Music, is sharing its insights and good practice tips for successful music projects with young people in Youth Justice settings

We publish Sounding Board, the journal of community music, four times a year. Sound Sense members receive a paper copy of the magazine when it is published, and can also download a pdf version here

François Matarasso's new book is 280 pages on the principles, practice and history of participatory art, featuring more than 50 projects from across Europe and beyond

The Utley Foundation has launched a new website to provide a central information hub for advice, evidence-based research, and expertise on why music, in its rich variety of forms, is essential for people living with dementia and their carers

Arts Council England have just published the final report in their evidence review for their next ten year strategy