An education in music and the arts builds self-esteem, improves behaviour and social skills, and increases broader academic achievement. These are opportunities that should be available to everyone. Yet equality of opportunity and access to music making appears to be an issue for a large number of children and access for many is dependent upon their parents ability to pay. Our Challenge seeks to use song and dance which are the most accessible forms of music making to tackle this problem.

Our Primary School Show Choir (Glee) challenge solves the problem by providing opportunity and support to children and their teachers/volunteers/staff. It does so by providing a series of headline performance opportunities (heats/finals) supported by three pillars of choir focused (workshops), continuous professional development workshops for show choir staff and the development of support materials. All of which are provided free to children and the schools.