2024 Call of the Mountains - Clare Johnston and Drake Music Scotland
2023 The Endz - The Multi-Story Orchestra
2021 ENO Breathe
2020 Sound Young Minds - City of London Sinfonia
2019 BSO Change Makers and Resound

Prior to 2019, this category was known as Learning and Participation - a term familiar within the profession but less so to audiences. We changed it to reflect the nature of the winning initiatives, having a transformative impact in communities nationwide.

2018 Calderland - A People's Opera (509 Arts)
2017 South-West Open Youth Orchestra
2016 Tri-Borough Music Hub: Seven Seeds
2015 Britten’s War Requiem (Southbank Centre)
2014 Imago (Glyndebourne)
2013 Cycle Song (Proper Job Theatre Company and Scunthorpe Co-operative Junior Choir)
2012 Spitalfields Music: We Are Shadows

Prior to 2012, this category was known as Education.

2011 Sing Up
2010 English Touring Opera with Hall for Cornwall: One Day Two Dawns
2009 Hackney Music Development Trust: Confucius Says
2008 Land Sea Sky Trilogy (WNO Max)
2007 PLAY.Orchestra
2006 Spitalfields Festival: On Spital Fields
2005 HMDT Operaction Hackney: On London Fields
2004 WNO MAX - Katerina Project
2003 spnm Sound Inventors
2002 LSO Discovery
2001 RSNO/East Renfrewshire Council - Rumble in the Jungle
2000 Huddersfield Festival - Education Programme
1999 Ulster Orchestra - The West Belfast Initiative