The Beyond The Mainstream Development Programme is intended to reach children and young people of primary age who have had limited or no singing opportunities before and/or support the training and continuing professional development (CPD) of new and existing singing leaders working with these children. The activity funded will be with those primary age children in non-mainstream schools.

• with physical or learning disabilities, autism, experiencing trauma;
• with behavioural difficulties e.g. Pupil Referral Units, Emotional and Behavioural Difficulties (EBD); and/or those children who may be registered with mainstream schools but who may miss out on singing because;
• of disruptions in their school lives e.g. looked after children, young carers, young people long stay in hospital, gypsy and traveller children, young refugees and those involved in regular truanting;
• they don't identify with school-related singing e.g. some older boys , some children from disadvantaged communities.