'World Beating' Around the World in 18 Ways African drumming – an increasingly popular activity for community, group and schools-based learning, with growing numbers of resources available. A comprehensive online respurce is the African Music Webring – http://V.webring.com/hub?ring=africanmusic – which links 71 active sites. Another site, African Drum Beat – www.african-drumbeat.co.uk – offers MP3s and video clips of African drumming, rhythm patterns etc.

Asian Music Circuit (AMC) – created in 1989 by the Arts Council and independent since 1991, AMC is the largest promoter of Asian music in the UK . It organises tours, education workshops and related events and will be opening a new resource centre in London some time next year, having been awarded lottery funds. www.amc.org.uk

Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan – founded in 1938, the UK branch of BVB was the first independent overseas branch and the largest institute for Indian arts and culture outside India . Runs courses in vocal and instrumental music including karnatic flute, sitar, vina and violin. www.bhavan.ne

Drum Jam – claiming to be ‘the UK 's premier rhythmic events entertainment company', Drum Jam works in schools, communities, prisons and the corporate sector. It runs drumming workshops across the UK for all ages and ability groups.

Its use of the drum circle is a way to ‘promote, introduce and support strong value systems'. www.drumjam.co.uk

Gamelan – a generic term for assorted orchestras played in Indonesia , gamelan is the dominant element of Indonesian traditional music. Popular in the west for at least 50 years – inspiring composers such as Britten – instruments in the gamelan include bronze gongs, chimes and metallophones as well as drums, flutes and bowed string instruments. www.gamelan.org.uk has a list of UK gamelan resources, workshops and ensembles.

Horniman Museum – the Horniman has the third most important ethnographic collection in the UK, including one of the country's most comprehensive musical instrument collections (more than 7,000 objects) ranging from ancient Egyptian bone clappers to synthesizers. It also runs a range of educational workshops and hosts performances. www.horniman.ac.uk

• JAS Musicals Ltd – one of the UK 's largest suppliers of Indian instruments, JAS Musicals is based in Southall, northwest London . It offers repair services for instruments and advice, while its comprehensive website includes a list of teachers of Indian music. www.jas-musicals.com
• MilapFest – born in 1985 in Liverpool, MilapFest now stages the premier annual South Asian arts festival in the UK as well as collaborative events all year round in other cities. It also commissions. Milapfest is responsible for running Samyo (the South Asian youth orchestra) and dance ensemble Tarang. www.milapfest.com
• Music for Change – formed in 1997 and evolving from a community project in Kent , Music for Change runs a range of one-off events and ongoing projects, primarily with young people. Its team of workshop leaders from Ghana , India , Jamaica , Sierra Leone , Trinidad and Zimbabwe organises 1,500 workshops a year in schools and communities, reaching an estimated 100,000 young people. www.musicforchange.org
• Musiko Musika – formed by Chilean musician and composer Mauricio Venegas-Astorga and Rachel Pantin in 1998, Musiko Musika develops composing and song projects with communities and schools (see opposite).www.musikomusika.org
• SAA-uk – South Asian Arts, established in Leeds in 1997, grew out of the Leeds Centre for Indian Music and Dance and co-founded the South Asian Music Consortium (see below). www.sas-uk.org.uk
• School of Oriental and African Studies – Soas is the only higher education institution in the UK specialising in the study of Asia, Africa and the Near and Middle East. www.soas.ac.uk
• Sense World Music – a new world music record label, set up to bring together great talents from the global music community but focussing on India 's musical heritage.www.senseworldmusic.com
• Sewa-education – a London-based charity providing a wide range of African performance arts tuition. Sewa-education combines music, dance and storytelling with discussion sessions. www.sewa-education.org
• South Asian Music Consortium – a collaboration between SAA-uk, Sampad and MilapFest in Liverpool.
• Sampad – based in Birmingham , the development agency has a national profile for its work championing and delivering south Asian arts. It initiates and develops a range of participatory music projects in community, education and youth settings, commissions new work, develops collaborative projects between Asian and Western artists and runs CPD programmes.www.sampad.org.uk
• Taiko drumming – an ancient Japanese art, taiko has taken hold in the UK thanks to the work of Exeter-based Kagemusha Taiko. Taiko is popular with schools and community groups because it involves untuned percussion, is performance-oriented and ensemble-based. www.kagemusha.com
• World Music Network – a record label and publishing house, WMN's website includes a radio station, links to other world music sites (including freemuse – the music anti-censorship organisation). www.worldmusic.net