Yorkshire Youth & Music is a community music and arts education company working across the whole of Yorkshire. They create music-making opportunities that change the lives of children and young people in very challenging circumstances across the region, including children with special education needs, young people in Youth Justice settings and children with disabilities. They have expertise and a reputation for reaching the hardest to reach young people, and those in very challenging circumstances, working in partnership with schools, music services, community groups and other organisations and institutions who provide support and services to young people. You can find out more about the projects they run and the difference they make to young people's lives here.
Gail Dudson has been the Director of Yorkshire Youth & Music for over twenty years, designing and building long-term music partnership projects with Local Authorities, NHS and others who are responsible for some of Yorkshire's most vulnerable young people