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This brand new music education podcast explores the benefits of singing on mental health and wellbeing - new episodes out every fortnight

Sing Up Foundation launches Inspiring Voices, a new podcast exploring the role of singing in improving mental health and wellbeing

Over Autumn 2023 on the Sing Up Foundation podcast, Inspiring Voices, we'll be meeting fascinating singers, teachers, researchers and more, to explore singing for mental health & wellbeing for children & young people. Ahead of our first 2 episodes, featuring Sophie Garner and Aga Serugo-Lugo, we're delighted to share our trailer to give you a flavour of what's coming. You can subscribe now to get the episodes as they are released: Spotify: https://bit.ly/IVPodSpotify Apple:.

Our new Inspiring Voices podcast is coming this September. Join us as we explore the power of singing to transform lives.

Sign up to be the first to know when this brand new report is available. The research conducted by Dr Hala Jaber, Dr Fran Garry and Professor Helen Phelan from the University of Limerick's Irish World Academy of Music and Dance and commissioned by Sing Up Foundation will include a literature review and collection of case studies, interviews and recommendations for further development of work in this area. The research is supported by the British Council through Sing Up Founda

Sing Up Foundation, Singing for Health Network and Music for Good are partnering to deliver an online conference.

The Sing Up Foundation has announced that Dr Jeremy Sleith has been appointed as the next Chair of the Board of Trustees.

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE 5 December 2022 Sing Up Foundation appoints a team of researchers from the University of Limerick's Irish World Academy of Music and Dance to conduct a research review on singing with young refugees Young singers from the British Council’s World Voice project in Greece performing in a celebration concert. Sing Up Foundation has appointed Dr Hala Jaber, Dr Fran Garry and Professor Helen Phelan from the University of Limerick’s Irish World Academy of Music

Baz Chapman shares with us as he begins working with the Sing Up Foundation as a project lead on a sustainability programme supported by ACE

Music for Good is delighted to have secured funding from the National Foundation for Youth Music to further develop and roll-out a programme of training for singing teachers and leaders. Working with Sing Up and the Sing Up Foundation, the training and resources will be focused on trauma and mental health-informed theory and practice and will be rolled out via Music Education Hubs in 2022. Music for Good Director and Practitioner Emily Foulkes has developed training based on

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE The Sing Up Foundation continues the legacy of the British Council’s World Voice programme, building upon the seven-year initiative which worked across 23 countries As the world succumbed to a global pandemic in 2020, World Voice, a British Council initiative, was drawing to a close after seven ground-breaking years and now, the Sing Up Foundation is taking on the programme to develop and continue the legacy of the international initiative. Starting in

Three new trustees have joined our Board to help guide The Sing Up Foundation's strategy moving forward

We want to know about your experiences of children and young people's mental health and wellbeing. As part of our work, we're looking for your views and experiences of children and young people's mental health and wellbeing. If you work with children and young people either in school (primary or secondary) or out of school, we'd love to hear your views. Teachers play an important role in identifying and supporting their pupils' emotional wellbeing and we're interested to know

This week, Sing Up staff spread some festive cheer in Charing Cross Station and helped to raise money for Samaritans. As part of the #SingforSamaritans campaign, Sing Up Staff sung to raise funds for Central London Samaritans at Charing Cross train station on 12 December 2018. Samaritans provide support to anyone experiencing emotional distress, struggling to cope or at risk of suicide. They are open 24 hours a day, 365 days a year and run various programmes and provide supp

As part of Sing Up’s 10th birthday, we established a new charitable foundation with the purpose of supporting and promoting singing for mental health and well-being. Taking inspiration from Sing Up’s work and the impact that it has had on young children’s lives, the Foundation will aim to take Sing Up's ethos and values forward in working with teenagers and young people. During Sing Up's funded period, the benefits of singing for wellbeing came to the forefront following ye