Heavy Sound is a community-based alternative education and development environment for young people aged 11 to 15 and their families in East Lothian.

We provide a transition service for 16 to 21-year-olds into further learning, training and employability.

Heavy Sound offers vocational learning and qualification courses in music, media, mountain biking and mechanics, sports, barista and catering.

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How it Started

Heavy Sound began in 2011 as a Rap and music project working with ages 11-15 in residential care, special and mainstream schools.

Watch our 2016 project documentary, In the Frame, to see how it started.

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