For over 25 years we have inspired, guided and championed caregivers’ use of music to strengthen care.

As a universal language, using music enables us to work in diverse contexts, cultures and communities around the world. Our activities are tailored to enable caregivers to create new and ongoing opportunities for people in vulnerable situations to access music as part of their care.

Working at the heart of care

Caregivers are crucial to the wellbeing of people in vulnerable situations all over the world. Our training and support activities give them the skills, confidence and resources to introduce music into the care they provide.

The positive impact for our staff has been increased confidence and a greater satisfaction in their job role.

Carers Trust

Meaningful music in care

Our training enables caregivers to provide meaningful opportunities for people in vulnerable situations to express themselves and connect with others.

Here there is the opportunity to see music laced through the lives of individual young adults, at moments when it could be most meaningful to them.

Kate Fawcett, music therapist

A lasting legacy of change

We empower caregivers to continue using music long after their training is complete, take ownership of their music practice and share what they have learnt with others. Together over time, we can influence attitudes and approaches to care and create a lasting legacy of change.

Music as Therapy International’s training has changed the way we work with children.

Musicians Without Borders

How we think about our impact

We use a Theory of Change model to help us capture, monitor and communicate our impact. This traces links between our goals, those of our Partners, the ways in which music is being used by all involved and the experiences for different beneficiary groups. Using it, we can pinpoint key details from what our Partners tell us and report our impact more precisely. While we feel our current Theory of Change reflects our work today, we continue to refine and adapt it over time.

As part of our charity strategy we only pursue activities where we are confident they can have a meaningful impact. Over time, the impact we record further guides which activities we replicate or develop.