Impact
Making an impact
All year round we reflect on how Nucleo is doing, assessing the impact our work has on members to make sure we’re meeting their needs as best we can. Evaluation is done using a framework created in collaboration with Sound Connections – a charity for music-makers like us, who strive for long-lasting social change.
The Impact report for 2024-25 is here: Click to view!
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The Impact report for 2024-25 is here: Click to view! 〰️
“Thank you Nucleo for making me accomplish my goals, and my teacher for taking her time in every lesson for each student.”
The young musicians in our Community Programme attend over 70 different schools, and together they speak over 40 different languages at home.
Our most recent enrolment statistics (from September-October 2026) found that of the 416 young people currently enrolled in our community programme in North Kensington:
Westminster is the most represented, and 52% live locally to our HQ, in either W9, W10, W11 or W12.
76%* are members of Global Majority populations, who are drastically underrepresented in the classical music industry.
We use the term Global Majority since Black, Indigenous and people of colour represent over 80% of the world’s population.
*64 students declined to state their ethnic background
According to the Income Deprivation Affecting Children Index, 57% of our students come from neighbourhoods amongst the 20% most deprived in the country.
85% of our students come from the most deprived 50% of the country.
We regularly give students, parents and carers the space to anonymously share their thoughts about Nucleo. Here is a taster of what our young musicians and their families reported:
Evaluation data is collected via the enrolment form, student and parent / carer questionnaires, teacher assessed forms, and lesson observations.
We conduct a separate evaluation of our residential Young Leaders Programme, which last took place in November 2023 and welcomes students from across England.
If you are a funder or organisation wanting more information about our impact evaluation programme, please contact our Head of Learning & Evaluation, Kate, at kate@thenucleoproject.org.
Want to know more about what The Nucleo Project does? Take a look at our What We Do page.
“I’m very greatful for Nucleo existing as a platform to teach children music. It saddens me how much arts funding has been cut by the government. Thank you to ALL of you at Nucleo for your hard work! Because today’s students are tomorrow’s artists.”