Portfolio
Current Projects / Work
General
I currently work with a number of charities, developing with them high quality, engaging and fun singing sessions for groups of clients. Charities include Day Break, Headway, MIND and Woodstock Stroke Club, funded by Oxfordshire County Council. I also work with residential care homes to lead participatory singing with residents with varying needs, including physical and mental infirmities.
Sound Bites Project, Churchill & Warneford Hospitals, Oxford
Sound Bites brings together older people with functional mental health problems from the Fulbrooke Centre and from the community. We get together to sing and use our voices and percussion in the Warneford Hospital Chapel which has a wonderfully warm acoustic (and sometimes a warm floor if the heating has been switched on!) This started as an 8-week pilot running in the autumn 2009, with the project continuing through the spring, and into summer 2010.
Singing for the Brain, The Alzheimer’s Society
In September 2009 I started to lead a Singing for the Brain group in Grove, funded by The Alzheimer’s Society and the local mental health trust. In January 2010 a further Singing for the Brain group began to meet in Banbury. Singing for the Brain is a singing group for people with memory problems and their carers.
Singing for Fun, Age Concern
Since March 2009 I have been facilitating a weekly Singing for Fun groups in Witney, supported by Age Concern. We sing lots of different types of songs – folk, jazz, rock, spirituals, pop music from different eras and songs from different parts of the world. In June we participated in Long Wittenham’s Charity Music Festival, ‘Wittfest’. Further groups have been established in North Leigh, Carterton, Banbury and Fritwell
To find out more about my previous projects and work you can go to this page.
To find out more about my education and continuing professional development you can go to this page.