2025 Re:Discover Festival – Streetwise Opera
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 Seven Seeds – Tri-Borough Music Hub 
2015 Britten’s War Requiem – Southbank Centre
2014 Imago – Glyndebourne
2013 Cycle Song – Proper Job Theatre Company and Scunthorpe Co-operative Junior Choir
2012 We Are Shadows – Spitalfields Music

Prior to 2012, this category was known as Education.

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