Newham Music Trust

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Our Work

The Newham Music Trust works with over 7000 young people annually providing music tuition at our Academy, and in schools throughout Newham. Our teachers and project staff have considerable experience of working with young people with additional needs. The Trust works in special schools that cater for children with profound and multiple learning difficulties as well as those with emotional and behavioural difficulties, LTM has existing links and good working relationships with local voluntary and youth organisations such as Connexions, the Youth Offending Team, Youth Employment Service and with local special needs and Pupil Referral Units, and has delivered the LTM programme for 5 years helping hard to reach young people gain a qualification to improve their future prospects. We also work closely with Newham Borough Council and receives good support from businesses and key players in the local community.

We provide;

instrumental and vocal lessons in whole class and group settings within schools, during and after school hours, and to children and adults at the Newham Academy of Music, after school hours and on Saturday mornings,

Music Therapy for children, adults and older people with for example profound and multiple learning disabilities, Alzheimer's and dementia and special needs both at our special Soundscape Music Therapy Centre and on an outreach basis,

the Learning Through Music (LTM) project, delivering music technology and production projects for young people who are deemed hard to reach through NCFE, within schools and community centres, and through evening courses for adults. We have a fully equipped recording studio available to hire, which is free for Academy Students, and look out for the launch of the Newham Vibe Radio Station!

The above three core areas are by no means the boundaries of our work. We undertake many special instrumental, choral and music projects of all genres from classical to jazz, indian music to urban music and are proud to have special partnerships with professional orchestras such as the LSO, the RPO and the New London Orchestra. Please take a musical journey around our website to find out more details about all we do at the Academy and to find out how to get involved in our projects!

Click here to read some great examples about how music is working in one of the many primary schools we teach in, in Newham. If you have any stories about how you think music is helping individuals or groups in your school, please do share them and don't let them get lost in the history of time. Email Alison Brewerton or call her on 020 75406923 if you would like to disucss this further.