Positive Mental Health Through Music

Award-winning music and wellbeing services
in hospitals and the community

Positive Mental Health Through Music

Award-winning music and wellbeing services
in hospitals and the community

Our mentoring programmes support young people and adults with lived experience of mental health problems. 

Using a unique trauma-informed therapeutic approach our work promotes recovery from depression, anxiety, PTSD, bipolar disorder, psychosis, and other conditions. Drawing on adapted elements of music industry practice our programmes are delivered by specially trained professional producers, artists, managers, and industry experts.

Our services are accessible for musicians and music lovers with all levels of ability and experience.

Our impact in 2024

Service profile:

  • 100% of service users experiencing mental health difficulties
  • 95% unemployed / low income
  • 72% global majority background
  • 60% aged under 30
  • 54% homeless or insecure housing
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Supporting Mental Health Recovery

Hospitals

Pop-up recording studio sessions for young people & adults on inpatient acute, intensive care, rehabilitation, and other psychiatric wards

Community

Mood-boosting recovery-focused mentoring programmes, tailored to individual interests & aspirations, delivered in professionally equipped studios

Performance

Performance at open mic’s, concerts and in music video, boosts artists’ confidence & self-esteem and challenges stigma & discrimination around mental health issues

Progression

Volunteering opportunities, peer support, work experience, pathways to employment

What Artists Say About Key Changes

Music can play a valuable role in mental health recovery

  • Stimulate emotional and aesthetic responses
  • Facilitate positive changes in behaviour & wellbeing
  • Develop creative, technical & vocational skills
  • Improve expression, communication, confidence, & self-esteem

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