About Sunderland Music Hub
Sunderland Music Hub delivers, supports and champions music-making activity across the city. We aim to unlock musical potential and ensure young people have opportunities to progress regardless of their background.
We give equal weight to all music-making activity, whether formal or non-formal and regardless of instrument, genre or skill level. We believe in the potential of music to change lives and believe in the right of every child or young person to engage in music-making activity. We aim to make Sunderland the best place to be a young musician.
We work with schools to fulfil the National Plan for Music Education, ensuring the opportunities for high-quality music education are available to every child and young person across the city. Our work with cultural and community organisations delivers a broad, diverse and open-access music offer with progression routes for any child or young person who is interested in developing further. Alongside a city-wide offer, we target areas and demographics of young people who we know are least likely to have access to music-making activity to level the playing field and ensure all young musicians have the opportunity to thrive.
About Music Hubs
Sunderland Music Hub Team
Lizzie Nixon
Music Hub Manager
Liam Huitson
Music Inclusion Officer
Hannah Taylor
Music Education Officer
James Hayes
Partnerships & Development Officer
Laura Taylor
Freelance Singing Strategy Lead
Emma Mapplebeck
Freelance Furthering Talent Project Producer
Lynne Ireland
Freelance Primary Specialist
Ashleigh Lowes
Freelance Delivery Team
David Smith
Freelance Delivery Team
Tony Brown
Freelance Delivery Team
Sunderland Music Hub is supported by members of staff across Together for Children, the Hub Lead Organisation.
Sunderland Music Hub Board
Steve Jinski
Chair of the Board
Richard Cullen
School Improvement Manager at Together for Children
David Smith
Musician
Tracey Mienie
Centre Manager – 17Nineteen
Jane Boyd
Music Teacher at Hill View Junior School and St. Paul’s Primary School
Emily Landells
Teacher at Barbara Priestman Academy
Anne Loadman
Specialist Teacher in Mental Health – South Tyneside NHS Foundation Trust
Our Funders
Our Key Partners
In order to deliver music activity in schools and community settings across the city, Sunderland Music Hub works in partnership with a number of local and national organisations and who we thank for their support.
Work With Us
We are keen to hear from organisations or individual music practitioners who would like to work with us to deliver music activity in Sunderland, both within schools and across communities. We are particularly interested in working with partners to deliver music activity that is accessible to groups of young people who may ordinarily not have access to music and/or cultural activity.
How can we help?
- Connect you with local or national partners who could help you to deliver a music project in the city
- Support you to write a funding bid for a music project
- Provide advice, guidance or other in-kind support
We are also able to offer small grants of seed or match funding for projects that deliver the aims of the National Plan for Music Education, meet the strategic aims of Sunderland Music Hub, and provide opportunities where there are currently gaps in provision for young people. Funding is allocated three times a year. An application process is in place and successful projects are decided upon by the Sunderland Music Hub board. For more information about working together, please email lizzie.nixon@togetherforchildren.org.uk.
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Policies and Procedures
Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Strategy
Fees and Remissions Policy