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Creativity and Wellbeing Week: Jamming at The Hive
- 20th May 2024
In 2023/24, 50 hours of live music took place as part of the weekly 'jam sessions' at Royal Edinburgh Hospital in The Hive, which have been running for over ten years.
Since January we have been sharing weekly live music and visual art experiences at Tŷ Llidiard, a residential NHS Child and Adolescent Mental Health Service (CAMHS) in Bridgend.
New research, carried out by the Salford Institute for Dementia at our specially created music café, has found that people living with dementia who regularly experience live music have reduced isolation, increased wellbeing and improved peer support.
New National Lottery grant to reach more people with #MusicEveryDay
- 22nd September 2020
We are delighted to have received a new grant for just over £30,000 from The National Lottery Community Fund so that more people isolated in healthcare settings can experience the healing power of live music through our #MusicEveryDay live stream sessions.
Veterans' voices help pen four new songs for Play it Again SAV!
- 11th February 2020
As part of our Play it Again SAV! project, a songwriting pilot ran in late 2019 with veterans at Scottish War Blinded, Erskine and Royal British Legion Scotland centres.
Dementia communication training inspires MiHC musicians in Wales
- 5th December 2019
In January 2019, Music in Hospitals & Care received two grants from the Darkley Trust and the Arts Council of Wales to provide Dementia specific communication training days for our musicians working in Wales. Throughout the Spring we organised three training events, which took place in Wrexham, Swansea and Cardiff.
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