CITY children are set to benefit from a £110,000 funding grant.

The grant for Southampton Music Hub will mean Southampton youngsters can learn how to make electronic music.

The three year project has been set up to help young musicians develop their skills.

Called 'Synthesis' and launching this month the grant of £100,000 has come from Youth Music, with £10,000 from Southampton City Council.

Working with schools across the city children - particularly those facing "challenging circumstances" in their lives - will be supported by professional musicians who will help make videos, write songs and use digital resources.

Matt Brombley, Project Manager at Southampton and Isle of Wight Music Hubs, said: “Technology is all around us: even the smartphone in your pocket can open up exciting new worlds for making-music. It is easy to think of this technology as being anti-social — we’re all familiar with the image of people hunched over their smartphones, ignoring the world around them — but what makes this project so exciting, is that it will give young electronic musicians the chance to collaborate in new clubs, bands and orchestras across the region, looking up and out from their screens, and to make and share music together.

"Inspired by world-class musicians, and supported by an amazing team of music leaders and teacher, these young musicians will not only learn new musical skills, but they will also develop the life-changing skills needed to work, and succeed, as part of a team.”

The cash will be shared with Isle of Wight Music Hub.