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The South West region
The South West region
Cornwall
Devon
Dorset
Wiltshire
Bristol
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SW and National organisations working across counties
SW and National organisations working across counties
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Prescribe Arts
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Live Music Now
Live Music Now
Working in Creative Health through Music Across the Life Course
Working in Creative Health through Music Across the Life Course
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douglas.noble@livemusicnow.org.uk
Strategic, needs based and delivery-focused music interventions, providing targeted, evidence-based support for people in health and care settings.
Animating Spaces
We transform health and care environments through live music, improving the experience for patients, visitors, and professionals.
Our live music performances in hospitals, hospices and care homes improve mood, reduce anxiety and create a healing atmosphere. https://www.livemusicnow.org.uk/cases/maz-oconnor-lewisham/
Supporting Communities
Interactive performances and targeted participatory and creative projects strengthen communities, fostering relationships and resilience.
We bring live music to Memory Cafes for people with dementia and offer "Songs and Scones" to combat loneliness and isolation. https://www.livemusicnow.org.uk/cases/songsandsconesmedway/
Song writing for place-shaping, community building & facing challenge strengthen connections and sense of shared identity. This builds personal and collective resources and resilience.
Addressing Medical Needs
We create tailored music interventions to support recovery and improve quality of life for those facing medical challenges.
The Lullaby Song writing model works in community and specialist perinatal mental health settings, building resilience and supporting parent child bonding ; an intervention pre-birth and at the beginning of life. https://www.livemusicnow.org.uk/cases/colettesstory/
Our Live Music In Care residencies in care homes lift mood, increase engagement and improve relationship for older people including residents living with dementia Read about a project in care home. https://www.livemusicnow.org.uk/cases/roi-live-music-in-care/
Empowering Health and Care Professionals
We help health and care workers integrate music into their practice by building confidence , giving new skills and providing resources, developing a culture of Musical care .
Our Open Award Badge of Excellence recognizes their achievements.
"Our residents are happier and more engaged. Music activities boost the mood of the entire house – residents and staff alike."
Staff member, The Params Care Home
An ABC of CSA: finding the words to talk about child sexual abuse
An ABC of CSA: finding the words to talk about child sexual abuse
A creative resource to support better conversations about child sexual abuse
"This is genuinely prevention work; this coming from survivors is so much more powerful than anything else you will ever see in this space."
Claire Bloor, CEO SARSAS
Bristol, Cornwall & the Isles of Scilly, Devon, Gloucestershire, Somerset
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At Viv Gordon Company, our work is a campaign to increase visibility, voice and community with adult survivors of Childhood Sexual Abuse (CSA).
Our work seeks to remove barriers to participation for CSA survivors and drive narrative change moving away from ideas of victimhood, guilt, shame, isolation and cultural silencing towards celebrating survival, joining together and laying claim to cultural space to make noise about our experiences, rights and concerns. We do this through creative activities: performances, installations, poetry, writing, workshops, campaigns, consultancy and more.
Artistic Director, Viv Gordon has a strong track record as a theatre maker, arts/mental health campaigner & survivor-activist grounded in her lived experience of Child Sexual Abuse.
Our project, An ABC of CSA, is a creative resource to support better conversations about child sexual abuse. It comes in the shape of a beautiful set of alphabet cards, co-created with over 40 CSA survivors and illustrated by Imogen Harvey-Lewis.
CSA survivors come from all backgrounds and all parts of society, but our experiences are hidden and taboo. Society doesn’t talk enough about CSA, and survivors often lack the words to speak up about their abuse.
Full info here: www.vivgordoncompany.co.uk/an-abc-of-csa
hello@vivgordon.com
@vivgordonco on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram
"Just knowing someone else had thought this, had designed and drawn a card to express it, meant it wasn't just the young survivor alone with these thoughts, and just one therapist alongside her, but a whole community out there, survivors of CSA/E, with shared experiences of sexual violence and the consequences. Thank you for this powerful resource.” - Miriam, Rape Crisis Centre Therapist
Archaeology for engagement and wellbeing
Archaeology for engagement and wellbeing
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Wessex Archaeology work with partners across primary care, community, VCSE, Justice System, Schools, Museums, Libraries, Arts and Health.
One example is the Lost and Found project
How did the project work?
The key to the Lost & Found project was its simplicity. At the heart of it, the idea was to create an accessible space where individuals felt safe to express themselves and participate in an activity in a way that held meaning for them.
Due to the restrictions in place, individuals joined each session from the comfort of their own homes. Artefacts from our archives acted as a vehicle for sessions, aiding discussion and providing opportunities for participants to share their own stories. Alongside this, there was homework for participants which brought in elements of creativity.
https://www.wessexarch.co.uk/our-work/lost-found-treasures-archive
Social Return On Investment of Creative Health Activities
Social Return On Investment of Creative Health Activities
Orchestras Live is developing a Social Return On Investment model for Creative Health interventions.
#StartWell #LiveWell #AgeWell #Music #National #Measurement
cimeon@orchestraslive.org.uk
Orchestras Live has been testing a Social Return On Investment model for creative activities. So far we have looked predominantly at wellbeing value and other broader social impacts, but are developing our expertise and approach to incorporate other direct health benefits/savings and the wider social determinants of health. The model aligns outcomes with the UN Sustainable Development Goals.
The approach generates an estimate of the £ social return (or saving) for every £ invested. We are looking for pathfinders to help us test and develop the approach. The YouTube video at the link provided says a little bit more about our work to date. Get in touch and get involved! https://www.orchestraslive.org.uk/news/social-value-engine
@OrchestrasLive on Twitter/X and @ orchestras_live on Instagram and @orchestras-live on LinkedIn
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