Sing Up Programmes

Sing Up Flagships

Sing Up Flagships are singing advocates that work to share and develop best practice through projects, performances and resources. Nine organisations currently work as Flagships, with most programmes typically lasting 2 years. Thousands of children, practitioners and singing leaders have benefited nationwide from their work.

Sing Up Communities

Sing Up Communities are run by arts organisations and music services that work with primary-aged children. They aim to place singing at the heart of the community. Each project runs for two years and aims to reach over 2,000 primary-aged children. Work includes the development of young singing leaders and encouraging singing out of school hours.

Beyond the Mainstream (re-launched September 2011 as 'Accessible Learning')

The Beyond The Mainstream Development Programme was intended to reach primary-aged children and young people who have had limited or no singing opportunities. It supported the training and development of new and existing singing leaders working with these children.

In 2011, BtM was re-launched as Accessible Learning, which promotes an inclusive approach to singing in the classroom – be it in mainstream, Special Educational Needs or Pupil Referral Unit settings.

Sing Up Clusters

Sing Up Clusters help secondary schools to lead innovative singing projects with their feeder primary schools. The programme helps to train and inspire singing leaders and enables schools to work positively with pupils’ transition issues. Clusters work with 240 schools across the nation, introducing exciting singing opportunities to over 7,500 pupils.

The programme is managed by our associated partners, Continyou.

Chorister Outreach Programme

The Chorister Outreach Programme enables professional children's choirs linked to a religious establishment to work creatively with primary school children in their local area.

To find out more, visit the Chorister Outreach Programme and select 'CSA Partnerships'.

Vocal Force

Vocal Force is a project based on the innovative Vocal Union programme devised by The Sage Gateshead. It aims to foster a peer support network for sharing learning and exploring ways of sustaining networks. Vocal Force has created over 60 bespoke projects to increase the skills, confidence and repertoire of more than 3,000 singing leaders.