List of activities

A 6-week project providing training to staff at Abbeyfield Care Home (Ballachulish) to introduce music into the care and activities they were providing for elderly people and people living with dementia up in the highlands of Scotland.

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A 6-week project providing training to two early years teachers at James Wolfe School in Greenwich, delivered in partnership with Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust, to introduce music to the care and development opportunities of the young children at the school.

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The 6th delivery of our Interactive Music-Making structured training for early years practitioners in London. Hosted by Clyde Early Childhood Centre and delivered in partnership with Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust, the course comprised a series of 12 weekly seminars and a practical assignment, evidencing their practice with a Practice Portfolios and a live presentation. This year saw the introduction of our IMM Award Scheme to support the participation of early years practitioners from settings under signficant financial strain.

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We returned to our Partners at The Fields several months after they received their Introductory Training project, to support their continued use of music with adults with learning disabilities. Sharing successes, developing practice and troubleshooting.

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We were pleased to be able to send our Local Partners in Gisenyi, Rwanda a selection of new instruments to compliment the ones they already had in support of their continued use of music.

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The second delivery of this training course, delivered via our Distance Learning Model, run in partnership with Musicians Without Borders. The course comprises a series of 7 monthly tutorials and written assignments, participation in an Intensive Study Weekend – hosted by Sounds of Palestine – and a supervised Practical Assignment, al of which equip participating activity leaders and social workers to use music in their work with children in the region.

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This field project was in response to local request and enabled 11 practitioners from these two settings and our other partner setting Public School #200 to access a Training for Trainers staff from all three settings leaving them enthusiastic and equipped to begin designing their own training programmes.

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We returned to our partners at Patashala School and the ARMS Centre for children and adults with autism (Hyderabad), to support their developing use of music. Sharing successes, developing practice and troubleshooting.

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In response to local request, we returned to our Local Trainers in Cyangugu to provide some additional training and support, and to share with them the Research Summary they had told us would be helpful to them in securing strategic support for the development of music therapy locally.

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In 2015 we launched the Tubakunde Exchange Programme, designed to enable members of the Tubakunde Network – a group of organisations working with people with disabilities across Rwanda – to visit our Local Partners in Cyangugu, observe their music work, access a music therapy training DVD we have produced and receive a small starter pack of musical instruments.

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