Resources & Publications

Not just for hubs! This new guidance from Youth Music provides timely and useful support for anyone wanting to improve the inclusivity of their music education practice. Contains good practice examples involving a number of Sound Sense members, including Bristol Plays Music, NYMAZ and Drake Music.

An online toolkit for everyone involved in making participatory arts, to help you make the good work you do even better

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.

Yorkshire Youth & Music have launched a new project to develop singing and signing ensembles, and also create a range of resources to support music with Deaf and Hearing Impaired children

Now available to pre-order from OUP, the new Oxford Handbook contains contributions from many Sound Sense members plus a chapter on "Community Music in the UK: Politics or Policies?" from former Director of Sound Sense, Kathryn Deane

If you collect personal data from participants in your music projects, or from your audience members or supporters, then you need to make sure that you comply with the new General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). This new law comes into force in May 2018, and Sound Sense has collated a list of resources to help you work toward compliance.

Arts Council England has published the Culture Change Guides, a toolkit to support arts organisations in developing a diverse workforce and leadership

Youth Music has published an updated version of its quality framework, Do, Review, Improve

Creative People and Places have published two companion resources on power and shared decision-making

Our partnership project, A Choir in Every Care Home, has published a range of resources to help both care homes and musicians provide more, higher quality musical experiences. Resources include videos and toolkits, as well as detailed research data and findings.