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TOOLKIT
BUILDING CARING MUSIC ECOSYSTEMS
Music is a powerful space for creativity and connection — but it can also reproduce inequality and exclusion. Young people, especially those from marginalised backgrounds, are often most affected. This toolkit supports youth music organisations and practitioners to better understand these dynamics and take action towards more caring, inclusive, and equitable environments.
WHY THIS TOOLKIT?
A care-centred approach to music environments
Practical actions and tools for everyday practice
Insights grounded in intersectionality and lived experience
Strategies to build safer, more equitable organisations
1: CULTURE OF CARE
understanding the structural challenges shaping music environments
2: INTERSECTIONALITY
how identity and power shape access, risk, and participation
3: NURTURING A CULTURE OF CARE
practical ways to embed care, equity, and inclusion
5: SUSTAINABLE RESOURCING
building ethical and resilient funding practices
4: SAFER SPACES
preventing harm and responding to discrimination
TRY AN EXERCISE FROM THE TOOLKIT!
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Are young women equally vulnerable to young men in music environments? Why?
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Would a black young woman living in an European country face the same risks to harm as a young white woman living in a European country? Why?
If two equally talented young men applied for the same youth worker role in your organisation, but one has formal qualifications while the other has relevant lived experience, who would you hire? Why?
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