Inspiring Music Hub - our mission

Inspiring Music is the music service for Central Bedfordshire Council and is the lead partner of the music education hub.

Here is our showreel which gives a flavour of some of the musical opportunities we offer.

At Inspiring Music, we offer a wide range instrumental and vocal tuition in partnership with Central Bedfordshire Schools from beginner to advanced and provide opportunities to engage with a wide variety of musical activities. We also lead ensembles such as choirs, orchestras, string groups etc. in schools to support progression routes for the children that learn instruments inside and outside of school.

We have three music centres where children and young people can come along to develop their musicianship on a Saturday morning. Join one of the many ensembles that takes place, giving new things a try or joining one of our more advanced ensembles. This is a great way to meet likeminded people and socialise as well as develop musicianship skills. The music centres are in Ampthill, Biggleswade and Leighton Linslade and further information can be found in the Music Centre area of the website. We also have South Beds Sinfonia that rehearses at Cedar’s Upper School every Monday which is for string players of grade 3 standard upwards and they perform twice a year in the community.

As lead partner of the music education hub, we received funding from Arts Council England to support musical opportunities in line with The power of music to change lives: a national plan for music education – GOV.UK (www.gov.uk) as set our by the Department for Education.

In support of the National Plan for Music we deliver first access and progression whole class projects on a variety of accessible and specialist instruments. As part of this we have develop our Count Me In: A Head Start Approach to ensure we are able to tailor our whole class sessions, removing barriers some pupils might encounter within each class we work with.

Inclusion is at the heart of everything that we do, and we continually develop our offer in response to the children and young people in Central Bedfordshire. We have developed an excellent network of partnerships where we work with specialist practitioners who are able to work with us to offer a broader, diverse range of musical pathways directly responding to the needs of our community.

We have an annual Battle of the Bands event and The Stables in Milton Keynes which includes performers from Key stage 3-5 from across our schools and for the Key Stage 3 we have the same event held at the Connolly Hall called beds band Factory.

Each year, we hold large scale concerts in our Something for Summer series where the children and young people we have been working with across the year can come and showcase their hard work!

These events are in partnership with The Grove Theatre and more recently we have expanded this to the Shuttleworth concert where we hold concert outdoors on a large stage.

We have developed excellent partnerships with local community musicians and organisations as well as national practitioners to support the musical pathways of our community authentically.

By working with high quality specialists we are able to broaden and diverse the opportunities that we can provide for the children and young people in Central Bedfordshire.

We have excellent partnership with our schools in Central Bedfordshire and work together to provide musical opportunities and pathways for the children and young people in our schools. We also provide CPD opportunities for our school colleagues to support their musical development and work in schools to further enrich the musical opportunities in our community together.