Future Yard is a community music venue in Birkenhead which doubles as an artist and live music industry training hub. Our role is to create rich and rewarding pathways into all aspects of the live music industry, from performers to technical staff. Sound Check is this flagship training programme, which was worked with over 300 young people from across the city region since 2021, kickstarting careers for them in the live music industry.
Sound Check focuses on three key aspects of delivering live events: event management, live sound and live lighting. Sound Check equips people with a passion for music with the skills needed to make a start in this industry, and does it through a 7-week programme of taught classes, live work experience opportunities and employability focus. Future Yard is now an independent training provider in its own right, delivering this programme as a Skills Bootcamp in partnership with the Liverpool City Region Combined Authority.
We are offering places on the Sound Check course to staff of all member organisations in The Culture Network. We have ringfenced a number of places for our partners, for their staff or participants, who they would like to put forward for the course to improve their technical event literacy and/or experience.
Sound Check runs on rolling cohorts of 20 participants aged 19+, with two daytime sessions per week (Monday and Tuesdays, 9.30am to 4pm). Additional practical live mentor sessions are undertaken on live events, where participants shadow Future Yard’s in-house team of technical and event staff.
Participants do not need any previous experience or qualification to be eligible. Participants do need to be aged 19 as of 31 August 2025.
If you are interested in putting someone forwards for the opportunity, please direct them to the Sound Check website where there are more details on the course, and an application to form to input their details. Please also email chris@futureyard.org once they have applied, so that we know they are from your organisation.