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- 31 March 2022
‘Music Helps’ – UK care sector consultation
United Kingdom
Following the successful pilot of our online music and dementia training tool ‘Music Helps’ in India, we are now looking to enlist the help of staff working in dementia care to see if this type of training could be useful here in the UK.
- Dementia
- Elderly
- Get involved
- Activities
- Music Helps
- News
- 29 March 2022
‘Music Helps’ gets support boost from Music for Dementia campaign
India, United Kingdom
Music Helps – our online training tool for caregivers of people living with dementia – has received another boost of encouragement, this time from the Music for Dementia campaign.
- Dementia
- Elderly
- Unpaid carers
- Activities
- Awareness
- Music Helps
- Blog
- 21 March 2022
- Elsa Hariades
An update on our UK activities
United Kingdom
New team member, Elsa, reflects on her first few months and shares our UK programme plans for 2022.
- Adults
- Children
- Dementia
- Disability
- Elderly
- Mental health
- Unpaid carers
- Young people
- Activities
- Organisation
- News
- 7 March 2022
Our first Interactive Music-Making CPD Event of 2022
United Kingdom
Last week we caught up with eight Interactive Music-Makers at our first CPD event of the year.
- Children
- Disability
- Interactive Music-Making
- Activities
- News
- 1 February 2022
Adapting ‘Music Helps’ online dementia training tool for the UK
United Kingdom, India
After a successful pilot phase of our ‘Music Helps’ online training tool in India, we’re excited to announce we’ll now be exploring its potential for caregivers working in dementia care in the UK.
- Dementia
- Elderly
- Activities
- Music Helps
- News
- 10 December 2021
Celebrating our Partners at Caol School: The final week
United Kingdom
This week our Caol Partners completed their final training session and certificate ceremony. In this blog, Advisory Panel member and delivering music therapist Clare Reynolds reflects on the progress made since October.
- Children
- Disability
- Mental health
- Activities
- Tailored Training (On-site)
- News
- 30 November 2021
Week five of our Caol School project
United Kingdom
The fifth blog from our training project delivered in partnership with Caol Primary School in Fort William, which is piloting the skill-sharing approach with primary school age children, with particular focus on mental heath post-lockdown.
- Children
- Mental health
- Disability
- Activities
- News
- 30 November 2021
Follow-up Visit at The Children’s Trust: six months on
United Kingdom
Six months on from their Introductory Training Project, Sophie Dawson returned to deliver a Follow-Up Visit for one staff member at The Children’s Trust in Tadworth.
- Disability
- Children
- Young people
- Activities
- News
- 12 November 2021
Week three at Caol School
United Kingdom
The third blog from our pilot project with Caol Primary School, which will assess the impact of skill-sharing in a mainstream primary setting for the first time – with a specific focus on mental health needs of children post-Lockdown.
- Children
- Disability
- Mental health
- Activities
- News
- 28 October 2021
Our skill-sharing project with Caol Primary School begins!
United Kingdom
Clare Reynolds blogs on her excitement after delivering week one of our pilot project with Caol Primary School, which will assess the impact of skill-sharing in a mainstream primary setting for the first time – with a specific focus on mental health needs of children post-Lockdown.
- Children
- Mental health
- Disability
- Activities

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‘Music Helps’ – UK care sector consultation

‘Music Helps’ gets support boost from Music for Dementia campaign

An update on our UK activities

Our first Interactive Music-Making CPD Event of 2022

Adapting ‘Music Helps’ online dementia training tool for the UK

Celebrating our Partners at Caol School: The final week

Week five of our Caol School project

Follow-up Visit at The Children’s Trust: six months on

Week three at Caol School

Our skill-sharing project with Caol Primary School begins!