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Sing Up Foundation is today publishing a new report, ‘Then the dream started to be more’: Singing and Music-Making with Refugee Children...

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

Sing Up Foundation are inviting organisations to tender for a literature review and a collection of case studies and best practice Political and other types of refugees form a group with added vulnerability to developing mental illness, thought to be due to a complex interaction of social, biological and psychological factors, playing out over the lifespan and across communities. Anecdotal reports from teachers working every day with young refugees in their classrooms and fro

Baz Chapman and Fiona Harvey talk about their work on World Voice and the likely next steps for this important international programme.

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