In Summer 2009, we won a £200,000 award in partnership with Wiltshire Music Service and Wiltshire Youth Arts Partnership. It was one of only five national awards from the Department for Children, Schools and Families.

It is to fund 7 innovative music education projects targeted at children and young people through out Wiltshire from October 2009 to October 2010. The projects are:

1. World Music Connect - outstanding world music ensembles giving workshops in schools
2. Outer Zone - music-making for children and young people with profound and multiple learning disabilities in residential centres
3. Creative Sound Factory - an intensive week of improvisation, composition and performing by young musicians of all abilities. Following a highly successful week in October 2009, plans are already in place for another in 2010.
4. In the Beginning - a training programme for pre-school teachers delivered by Da Capo
5. Jazz Connections - schools-based residencies and a residency by Kokoro.
6. Music Matters - a county-wide music project with and for young people at risk, those excluded from education or suffering from various forms of isolation. The work will take place in youth development centres, Pupil Referral Units and some schools throughout the county.
7. Kokoro Connect - Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra's contemporary music group Kokoro will work with clusters of schools focussing on creativity at the point of transition between Key Stage 2 and 3.