While hardly a week passes without another sport-based youth project launching, the musically inclined tend to get little more than the occasional DJ taster session.
Sound, it appears, has failed to capture the imagination of the youth work sector in the way sport has.
Marc Jaffrey, head of the Music Manifesto, believes music is fundamental.
"I've barely met anyone who doesn't have a strong relationship with it," he says. "Yet so many young people feel alienated by their experiences of it."
Only eight per cent of young people take a GCSE in music, making it the least popular subject after home economics, says Jaffrey.
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