Future Yard is an exciting live music venue on the Wirral, providing live industry training and a regional hub for artist development. Future Yard hosts our New Noise Music Centre, a hub for young people aged 14-16 to experiment across a range of instruments and music-making techniques. We work in partnership to deliver careers fairs for our students.

Out of the Ark is a leading supplier of music resources such as musicals and song lyrics for children in the UK. Out of the Ark provide songs for our Vocal Strategy projects, including our Unite for Ukraine campaign where schools learnt a selection of songs to sing at the Royal Cheshire County Show. They also supply the songs for our Sing the Christmas Story event as Chester Cathedral. 

Come and Play with The Hallé provides a fitting culmination to our First Access programmes reaching up to 2000 children (in partnership with Sefton LA). It is a unique series of concerts specially designed to offer thousands of children on the Whole Class Ensemble Teaching programme the opportunity to play and sing with an international symphony orchestra, both at The Bridgewater Hall in Manchester and in other national centres. 

Music Mark leads, represents and supports the highest quality music education for all children and young people. Through Edsential, schools can be awarded the Music mark membership if they complete their annual ‘In School Curriculum Assesment’ review. INCA enables Music Co-ordinators/Heads of Music to pull together vital information about their music provision so that we can develop an action plan. 

We are part of the MEHA. We work together strategically to raise funds and develop partnership work in order to bring best value to the local offer for young musicians. 

Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Society provide concerts and youth ensembles to students in the local area.

We have sponsored Manchester Camerata for 2 years to lead the Hidden Histories Project. The project explores composers of the past who have been underrepresented and gives students the creative range to come up with their own narrative through experimenting with different instruments and musical ideas. At the end of the project, all schools taking part will get to attend a prestigious Camerata Concert and experience in-person the Orchestra perform the music they composed.

Charanga is a cloud-based resource that brings together great music, modern pedagogy and the latest educational technology. Schools purchase Charanga subscriptions through the Music Education Hub and access a hub-branded Charanga portal. Charanga delivers free training to teachers in the hub area who want to learn how to use the platform. 

Edsential Musical Routes delivers the Ccertificate for Music Educators Qualification validated by Trinity London, the leading international exam board for communicative and performance skills in music. 

Sound City runs Music Festivals for young people with a focus on providing training opportunities and careers advice for young people within the music industry. They invite our schools and students to careers fairs. 

Live Music Now connect with people experiencing social exclusion or disadvantage, working together to create engaging, interactive, evidence-based live music sessions that meaningfully enhance health and well-being. They have provided live-streamed performances to special schools in our area during Lockdown and beyond.?

We commission Score Creative to deliver our music production online course and lessons for music students.

Music for Life delivers core roles for the Music Education Hub including
an ensemble, Cheshire Youth Music for Life Jazz Orchestra. Offering students’, the unique opportunity to be part of a jazz band.

Live Music Now has provided live-streamed performances to special schools in our area during Lockdown and beyond.

Sparkyard is a brand new subscription service from Out of the Ark, which gives primary school teachers nearly 1000 songs, and countless resources to allow those songs to be used in every part of a school’s life. In curriculum lessons to support learning, in assemblies to develop community, in classrooms and playgrounds to enhance wellbeing, and much more. It also features an innovative, flexible, skills-based primary music curriculum designed to enable every primary teacher to feel confident teaching music – whatever their experience level. Primary schools across Wirral, Cheshire West and Chester are able to access a 30% discount on a subscription to Sparkyard.

Love Music Trust and Edsential work in partnership for the Cheshire and Wirral Music Hub. The hub provides top-tier music education by delivering quality teaching and learning experiences, fostering pathways into the music industry, and nurturing creativity through collaborative projects with children and young people in Cheshire and Wirral.