List of activities

We returned to our partners at Public School No.198 and staff at the Parent’s Bridge centre for children and adults with learning disablities in Tbilisi for a week, to support their developing use of music with the children who attend the school. Sharing successes, developing practice and troubleshooting.

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We visited our Local Partners in Cyangugu to support their practice and help them prepare to share their experiences at the proposed Conference and launch of the Tubakunde Exchange initiative. The participating partners were left ready to host the exchange visits later in the year.

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Launched with a Conference held for 70 Local Partners and Tubakunde Network members this initiative was 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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We attended a conference held by Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge. Our contribution was a roundtable alongside people from other organisations, where we considered together “What is the relevance of skill-sharing to music therapists working in the field of dementia care?”

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Marking the 20th Anniversary of our pilot project in Romania, we brought together 70 of our Local Partners and other key influencers for a celebration of all that had changed, sharing of good practice and building links between academics and practitioners to think about what lies ahead. Local Partners presented their work (papers and poster displays) and Advisory Panel members shared clinical work from the UK. The papers were published in Romanian for wider dissemination.

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The 6th delivery of training delivered through our Distance Learning Model, this course comprised a series of 7 monthly tutorials and written assignments, participation in an Intensive Study Weekend – hosted by our partners from the Day Centre ‘Sf. Maria’ in Cluj – and a supervised Practical Assignment. The course can accommodate up to 12 practitioners interested to learn how they can use music within the care and/or edication they provide for young children with disabilities in different care settings around the country.

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We convened our first CPD event for early years practitioners who had graduated from the Interactive Music-Making programme. An opportunity to share successes, pool ideas and troubleshoot.

We undertook a full review of Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust Music Therapy Service’s Under 5s provision, to inform both local delivery but also capacity for the Oxleas team to support graduates from our own Interactive Music-Making programme.

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We delivered a series of guest lectures to undergraduates on the Early Years programme at the University of Greenwich, entitled “Music Therapy and Interactive Music-Making in the Early Years: An Introduction”.

We enlisted the help of our Structured training: Early years graduates to co-create a short film showcasing the impact of the training course for early years practitioners and the ways in which they are then able to use Interactive Music-Making to help young children achieve their potential.

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