Developing Confidence Through Creativity
Where it all began…
Newave was formed in September 2019 by music teacher and producer, John Percival. The organisation ran its first 5 outreach community projects Class Act Music, After Dark Dance, Reduce Reuse & Recycle and IAMA.
After a year of trading, Newave successfully tendered and won it's first contracted works framework with Sandwell Council. Newave employers 20 new members of staff to facilitate work across Sandwell.
Newave starts to work collaboratively with local Music Services and MAT's to provide specialist music and arts leaders for schools across Birmingham, Solihull, Sandwell, Dudley, Staffordshire and Warwickshire.
The company continues to expand music and arts activities in schools. A Board of Directors and governing body are formed to help with strategic focus.
Kelly Percival (John's Wife) joins the team as Director of Music & Early Years.
Our Values
Ultimately, we believe in the value of the arts. We are extremely passionate that every single child deserves to experience regular music and arts lessons and here at Newave our overarching mission is to promote and deliver high quality and inspiring music and arts provision to as many children and young people as we possibly can
By expanding our current network of education professionals and support staff, we hope to continue to pursue bigger and better opportunities which offer more children the chance to “develop confidence through creativity”.
We offer schools simple and effective lines of communication. This means you can always get in contact with a Manager or Director at any point. All Directors take an active role in the day to day operations with some still delivering in schools whenever possible.
We offer a quality and unique service for each school. Our tutors are regularly observed and are fully and hold a Enhanced DBS certificate through Newave.
All of our music and arts services are bespoke programmes that are carefully designed for your school.
We offer schools flexible music delivery through Service Level Agreements. As we face challenging times, we offer schools 12, 18 or 36 week SLA for ongoing peripatetic music services.
If you have any questions regarding our services, we would be delighted to discuss your school’s requirements.