{"id":56221,"date":"2025-05-07T14:27:35","date_gmt":"2025-05-07T14:27:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/shef-live.co.uk\/?p=56221"},"modified":"2025-05-07T14:27:36","modified_gmt":"2025-05-07T14:27:36","slug":"update-on-harmony-works-music-hub-project-for-sheffield-city-centre","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shef-live.co.uk\/index.php\/2025\/05\/07\/update-on-harmony-works-music-hub-project-for-sheffield-city-centre\/","title":{"rendered":"Update on Harmony Works  music hub project for Sheffield City Centre"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Plans to renovate Canada House on Commercial Street into vibrant music hub Harmony Works are well under way, according to a recent update by the council.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Speaking as part of  Sheffield City Council&#8217;s Transport, Regeneration and Climate Policy Committee meeting on 30 April, Principal Development Officer Lucia Lorente-Arnau said: \u201cHarmony Works is well on the way to complete all the funding package.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThey\u2019ve got around the \u00a310 million and they need just over \u00a32 million which they\u2019re happy they will get.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Harmony Works was awarded a \u00a34.7m grant from the National Lottery in January, and has also received \u00a33.5m in funding from Arts Council England through the Department for culture, media and sport Development Fund. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Fundraising is currently in progress to gather the remaining \u00a32.5m needed to reach the \u00a314m target.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Harmony Works will provide music education and enrichment for young people in the Grade II listed building located in the heart of the city center. It plans to open around late 2027.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The project is led by the Sheffield Music Academy, Sheffield Music Hub and their partners Music in the Round and Brass Bands England.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Councillor Ruth Mersereau said: \u201cThe renovation and repurposing of Canada House is such a brilliant addition to the city\u2019s cultural educational scene, and from a transport perspective it\u2019s brilliant because it\u2019s so accessible to children by public transport and by foot as well.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" src=\"https:\/\/shef-live.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/castle-gate-pic-1024x768.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-56224\" srcset=\"https:\/\/shef-live.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/castle-gate-pic-980x735.jpeg 980w, https:\/\/shef-live.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/castle-gate-pic-480x360.jpeg 480w\" sizes=\"(min-width: 0px) and (max-width: 480px) 480px, (min-width: 481px) and (max-width: 980px) 980px, (min-width: 981px) 1024px, 100vw\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Sheffield City Council is investing time and money into reinventing the Castlegate area.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Harmony Works is part of a council plan to reinvent the Castlegate area, which has previously been a victim of underinvestment, antisocial behaviour and long term decline.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The regeneration of Castlegate will see a new park installed in the center, which will feature remains of the former Sheffield Castle. New arts venue S1 Artspace is being installed in the former Yorkshire Bank Chambers Building.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sheffield City Council successfully bid for \u00a320m in government funding in late 2021. The Levelling Up Fund is a government project aiming to invest in projects that improve communities and economic development.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>You can find out more about Harmony Works at <a href=\"https:\/\/harmonyworks.org.uk\/\">https:\/\/harmonyworks.org.uk\/<\/a>.&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Plans to renovate Canada House on Commercial Street into vibrant music hub Harmony Works are well under way, according to a recent update by the council. Speaking as part of Sheffield City Council&#8217;s Transport, Regeneration and Climate Policy Committee meeting on 30 April, Principal Development Officer Lucia Lorente-Arnau said: \u201cHarmony Works is well on the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":250,"featured_media":56223,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[152,5,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-56221","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-council-2","category-news","category-top-story"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shef-live.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56221","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/shef-live.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/shef-live.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shef-live.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/250"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shef-live.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=56221"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/shef-live.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56221\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":56288,"href":"https:\/\/shef-live.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56221\/revisions\/56288"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shef-live.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/56223"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shef-live.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=56221"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shef-live.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=56221"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shef-live.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=56221"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}