Making Tracks

Young Londoners Fund: how we’re using music to change young people’s lives

November 15, 2018 // 0 Comments

Young Londoners Fund - supported by the Mayor of London

The Irene Taylor Trust is delighted to be one of the first organisations to be awarded funding from the Mayor’s Young Londoners Fund, an important new initiative to support [...]

“This is the best therapy available”: World Mental Health Day 2018

October 10, 2018 // 0 Comments

World Mental Health Day 2018 is a good reason to celebrate the impact the work we do has on improving people’s mental health. The people we work with are some of most [...]

Partnering with TiPP for Making Tracks: North West – short film

August 13, 2018 // 0 Comments

Making Tracks is a programme developed by the Irene Taylor Trust, run in partnership with TiPP in the North West. Making Tracks is an opportunity for young people in [...]

Making Tracks with young people from Newham YOT

August 6, 2018 // 0 Comments

We’re very excited to be back in East London this week, bringing our Making Tracks programme to a group of young people engaging with Newham Youth Offending Team. The [...]

Making Tracks goes North West in partnership with TiPP

June 22, 2018 // 0 Comments

Next week sees the fruition of an exciting partnership with TiPP in Manchester, with a first group of young people in Oldham taking part in our Making Tracks programme: [...]

Live music in Poplar from Making Tracks in partnership with The Prince’s Trust

May 15, 2018 // 0 Comments

We have an important date for your diary: We’re very excited to be working in partnership with the Prince’s Trust Get Started this June to bring Making Tracks to young [...]

Food for Thought; Making Tracks participants reflect on youth violence

April 19, 2018 // 0 Comments

We recently worked with a group of young people from Lewisham YOS on a MakingTracks project, to write and record music for a new album, which they titled Food For Thought. [...]

Celebrating International Women’s Day

March 7, 2018 // 0 Comments

Thursday March 8th 2018 is International Women’s Day, so to celebrate we’re looking back over some of the work we’ve done with women over the years. In Prison Since [...]

‘Sesh N Sauce’: Young Producers live music showcase 05.03.18

March 6, 2018 // 0 Comments

We’re feeling very proud of our Young Producers Müqzz and Yung Hamlit and all the young people who took to the stage at their ‘Sesh N Sauce’ event in Lewisham last [...]

Project Oracle Standard 1 Validation

September 14, 2017 // 0 Comments

We’re excited to announce that Making Tracks has been validated as a Standard 1 project by Project Oracle! The validation recognises how our project formula (an [...]