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Our Work
We believe singing can make a real difference to children and young people's mental health and wellbeing.
Almost everything we do starts the same way: bringing people together, listening hard, and turning what we learn into something the people doing this work can actually use.
WHAT'S ON
Need to know, nice to know, too much to know?
What do you really need to know about the mental health needs of the young people in the room? In some settings you get care plans and staff briefings. In others you get a room and a year group. Join us to explore it with Yasmin Ali (Y.A. Poet) and Dr Phil Mullen.
21 October 2026, 13:00–14:00
OUR THINKING
What does it take to lead this work?
Much of our thinking starts in a room full of people who do this work: roundtables with practitioners, music therapists, teachers and mental health professionals; focus groups on what makes this work different from other singing; and, right now, a consultation on our work with young refugees.
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Safe spaces came up again and again, so we commissioned a guide.
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How much a leader needs to know about the young people in the room is the subject of our next live session.
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Do, Know, Be came out of the focus groups: what a leader does, knows, and brings of themselves.
How can we use music to maybe improve the young person’s situation? Or just how they feel about themselves. And their relationship with learning.
Chris Morris
From Inspiring Voices podcast, Season 1
RESOURCE HIGHLIGHTS
New writing, research and announcements go out through News & Research. To find out who we are and how we work, see About Us.
We are not able to accept unsolicited applications for funding.
Podcast
Why Young People Stop Singing (And What We Can Do About It) — A Live Webinar Special
Professor Graham Welch , Benjamin Turner, Baz Chapman and chair Katherine Zeserson
The Humanising Power of Singing
Dave Camlin
Young Sessions: Music as Medicine
Lewisham Music, Afiya Lucombe-Davis, Toni-Ann Gurdon, Mimi Mxnroe, H-Jay
