Open Up Music is an incredible charity making music more accessible, helping young people with disabilities to make the music they love through Open Orchestras and the National Open Youth Orchestra (NOYO) programmes. As a pioneering national leader in inclusive music-making, they’ve spent nearly a decade proving that disability is no barrier to extraordinary performance.
As they approached their 10th anniversary, the team were ready for a new chapter to celebrate a decade of impact, and this included a brand new website.
We’ve loved every minute of working with the Open Up Music team and bringing this site to life to help them reach more young people and make a difference.
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The challenge: a website that didn’t match the impact of their work.
For a charity whose entire mission is about removing barriers, a website that created friction for funders, partners and supporters was a contradiction. A small team was spending more time on manual donation admin than on music, so the team knew this was one of the main challenges.
Open Up Music had a decade of work behind them, but their old website wasn’t showing the impact of their world-leading work in the best way it could.
Whatever we built needed to be robust; it needed to showcase the high calibre of their work and it needed to be able to manage without constant tech support.
The solution: accessible by design and total independence.
This website needed to be accessible by design, not as an afterthought. We built a mobile-first, lightweight website designed to WCAG 2.2 AA standards from the ground up, because for a charity whose mission is inclusion, accessibility is more important than ever.
To remove the operational friction the team were dealing with, we integrated the site with Enthuse for donations and Beacon CRM for data management. Two tools that now work quietly in the background, freeing the team to focus on what they’re actually there to do.
We delivered a modular WordPress CMS that gives the Open Up Music team total independence, no developer on speed-dial for day-to-day updates, no technical overhead, no waiting around.
In line with our B Corp values, the entire project was carbon-neutral, responsibly hosted on renewable energy. A website built with the same care and intentionality that runs through Open Up Music.
The results: 100/100 across the board!
100/100 across the board! The new site achieved perfect scores across every core metric. Performance, Accessibility, Best Practices, and SEO all hit 100/100 on Page Speed Insights. It also earned a carbon rating of A, reflecting the lightweight build and our commitment to responsible hosting.
But most importantly, young musicians nationally and internationally are getting the spotlight they deserve.
We’ve loved working with Hiyield and are super proud of our new website, which finally shows our work in a decent way, giving young musicians the spotlight they deserve.
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