The Arts Foundation is a charity, not a public body like the Arts Council.

Arts Council is in more of position to fund education but they tend to fundlarge and small community events / arts projects done by galleries, theatres, choirs, dance schools, etc. through grant applications.

If you really want to see more trad music in education then you need to do something at the grassroots level. Become a supporter of your local school. Try to get your folk club to be involved with local schools. Extended schools initiative encourages schools to keep their doors open longer, giving community access to a variety of services and activities. Start a youth tunes session to tag onto the guitar lessons. It's a beginning.

If a teacher specifically wants to add traditional music to a lesson or have an event, then Arts development service in the Local Authority should have a list of artists and groups that can deliver on any type of project.

ECC Arts Dev has a decommissioned artists directory, which they are about to revive. Ideally folk musicians should get themselves on whatever lists their local authority has.

Letters to the new Education Secretary and to your local MP about preserving local music heritage is another way to work in trad music into local education.