Yorkshire Association for Music and Special Educational Needs

Welcome!  We are a group of people dedicated to and expert in creating inclusive opportunities around music. Our members comprise teachers, volunteers, artists, musicians, non-musicians, and other participants with and without additional needs. We provide and support a range of activities for people with additional needs and those who work with them.

 

Upcoming Events:

  • Musical Communication Classes run by Ros Huntley – Starting 27th January Click here for a flyer.
  • YAM next session is on 4th April – Mrs Porter’s concert party
  • YAMSEN AGM – 30th April, 7pm at Pudsey Civic Hall, Leeds – click here for more information 
  • Wharfedale Music Makers class – 7th May 2025 at the Craiglands Hotel, Ilkley
  • One Accord choir next meet is 13th May
  • Multisensory Days – 20th and 21st May at Pudsey Civic Hall
  • Music Days – 22nd and 23rd May at Pudsey Civic Hall 

 

News

The YAMSEN team was saddened last week to hear of the death of Simon Lindley.
Simon was a great support to our founders Irene Peace and Mavis West when they were setting up the YAMSEN annual Christmas concert at Leeds Town Hall in 1983. The concerts featured our ever growing choirs for children and adults with learning disabilities, supported by Yorkshire Post Brass and the Leeds Minster Choir, which he conducted every year.
 
“Exasperating, exhilarating, and loved by us all at YAMSEN” Mavis West MBE
 

 

 

In other news
Huge congratulations to Mavis West, a YAMSEN founder and leader of YAM Singers, on her M.B.E. for services to children and adults with special needs through the provision of music!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Click here for more about us: Find out more about YAMSEN, its history and who’s who.