About us…

Beaumont Street Studios is a not-for-profit company started in 1985 by the Huddersfield West Indian Association. We provide music and media production, training and facilities hire, particularly geared to addressing needs in disadvantaged communities across the Region. BSS retains a black management committee and focuses on delivering initiatives to provide employment/self employment and opportunities for wider involvement in music, media and cultural industries.

BSS is experienced and familiar with running large-scale Regional initiatives. Our activities include:

• Face 2 Face Mentoring is a basic form of human development where one person invests time, energy, and personal
  know-how in assisting the growth and ability of another;
• Blueprint is a brand new scheme offering people on incapacity benefit in North Yorkshire the opportunity to access free specialist training for a variety of exciting jobs;
• over 1500 unemployed/disadvantaged people formally trained to date in media skills;
• HD1 Studios a Digital and Analogue recording studio frequently used by leading artists and the local community;
• Media Box a major youth music programme across the sub-region;
• creative sector enterprise and business start-up training;
• positive action courses for ethnic minorities, women and people with disabilities;
• outreach projects with young people run in schools, youth clubs, with voluntary organisations and elsewhere.

Beaumont Street Studios is committed to:

• community based media production and training;
• professional standards of production and service delivery;
• cross-subsidy of local activity through commercial work;
• initiating and supporting projects addressing economic regeneration;
• providing a link between community and industry;
• enabling and encouraging participation in music and media activities and careers.