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ACE and DfE more than double the number of National Youth Music Organisations

Arts Council England and the Department for Education have announced eight new National Youth Music Organisations (NYMO), raising the total number from seven to fifteen.
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The new NYMOs are The National Children’s Orchestra of Great Britain, Open Up Music (helping schools set up accessible orchestras for disabled young people), Awards for Young Musicians (providing support to young musicians from low-income families), UD (supporting young people to explore Black music and culture), Pagoda Arts (teaching young people about Chinese music and culture), The National Youth Folk Ensemble (enabling new arrangements of folk music), Orchestras for All (which offers life-changing orchestral music-making experiences to young people facing significant barriers) and Sound and Music (creating opportunities for those aged 11 –21 to compose and create music).

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