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16-22 June is Refugee Week, and we're marking it by highlighting a fantastic FREE new resource created by our friends at Music Action International, who took part in our research project into singing for displaced young people in the UK.

We're thrilled to announce that our recent fundraising drive as part of the Big Give Arts for Impact Match-Funding Campaign  for Chorus of Hope: Singing with Young Refugees and Displaced Children raised an incredible £11,090 ! This remarkable achievement was only possible thanks to the generosity of our supporters who believe in the transformative power of music, along with the match funded support provided by the Big Give platform and New Philanthropy for Arts and Culture. T

Our Big Give match-funding campaign is now live until 25 March at 12:00 noon. Our campaign, "Chorus of Hope – Singing with Young Refugees and Displaced Children" comes at a crucial time when displaced young people across the UK need supportive communities more than ever. Every child deserves to find their voice. For young refugees, that voice can become a powerful tool for healing, expression, and belonging. Our innovative program harnesses the transformative power of singin

Sing Up Foundation has been accepted into the Arts for Impact  campaign. For one week only (18-25 March), every donation will be doubled!

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

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

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