Rhythmix

Rhythmix is one of the UK’s leading music Charities, delivering a large range of music making opportunities for young people across the South East region. Since 1999, Rhythmix has worked with more than 40,000 young people, enabling their creativity through music and developing their personal and social skills.

As the project has become an increasingly familiar part of the local music landscape, the emphasis of the project has shifted from providing a large number of activities for first time experience students into supporting projects that are able to offer local young people a chance to take part in long term sustained activities.

Rhythmix works with its partners in Youth Support Services, such as Youth Workers, Arts Officers, Crime Reduction and Youth Offending Teams, to identify young people in challenging circumstances, and enables those young people to shape and develop projects that respond to their needs.

Working with a team of over 50 professional community musicians, Rhythmix is continually developing innovative and exciting new programmes that challenge young people to express their creativity.

Rhythmix manages and delivers the Youth Music Action Zone for the South East region and MusicLeader South East (www.musicleader.net) with funding from Youth Music.

Rhythmix is core funded by Surrey County Arts, Brighton & Hove Music, Arts and Study Support, East Sussex Music Service, and Kent Music, and has attracted funding from Youth Music, Arts Council England, Surrey County Council, East Sussex County Council, Kent County Council, Medway Council, Brighton & Hove City Council and many others.

Jo White is the Coast Coordinator for Rhythmix, covering Brighton and Hove and the coastal areas of East Sussex and Kent. If you would like to arrange a meeting with Jo to talk about your organisation or ideas you have for engaging children and young people with music-making please call 08701417484 (ext 2) or email jo@rhythmixmusic.org.uk