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Heron Music Café wins Wellbeing Award’
Musicworks Sign Up to “Sound Sense” – Music Education Code of Practice
The Music Education Code of Practice helps to ensure music practitioners provide high quality music making and learning experiences for the people they work with. The code does this by providing a set of quality statements concerning all aspects of music learning. By...
Musicworks Sign Up to “Sound Sense” – Music Education Code of Practice
The Music Education Code of Practice helps to ensure music practitioners provide high quality music making and learning experiences for the people they work with. The code does this by providing a set of quality statements concerning all aspects of music learning. By...
The Heron Music Cafe
Live music sessions in the community to enhance wellbeing – dementia friendly & inclusive The charity musicworks is pleased to be providing live music sessions in the local community. Download poster here. musicworks exists to promote all forms of music by...
Support Luke’s Marathon Journey
On 24th September 2017 Luke Fiddes will be running the Nottingham Robin Hood Marathon in aid of Musicworks. Luke is a remarkable young man and talented musician who has been working with Musicworks on a new book that will be published in the next few months. Luke...
Want to Get YOUR Music Out There?
From the outset one of the main reasons for creating musicworks was to promote and encourage music and musicians. We aim to provide a platform for talent to reach a wider audience and to encourage new, original music to flourish. As part of this goal we are pleased to...
PRESS RELEASE – Local Charity Launch New Project for Young People with Autism and Asperger’s Syndrome
musicworks have been working with an amazing young man, Luke Fiddes, on a new ‘Music in Care’ project - My Journey in Music for young people, including those who have autism and Asperger’s. Luke has Asperger’s himself and despite the daily challenges that he faces as...
Calling All You Arty Types!
With the musicworks online shop up and running, we are looking for music related merchandise to sell to support the work of the charity. In particular, we would like to develop a series of specially designed greeting cards. We will have these professionally printed...
Launch of our NEW Music in Care Project
We are very excited to be launching our new Music in Care project My Journey in Music at a FREE event in Nottingham in September. For the last 12 months musicworks have been working with an amazing young man, Luke Fiddes, who lives with Asperger’s on My Journey in...
Call for Musicians
musicworks is looking for musicians who can support a new Nottingham based project designed to enrich the quality of life for people living dementia and their carers through the use of personalised music. Based on our award winning "Soundtrack to My Life" initiative...
Lent: Looking Outwards – “The Soundtrack to My Life” Event
Last summer, in between meetings I nipped into our local Farm Shop, to grab some things for the family supper. Whilst doing so I was approached by a local resident, John Osborne, who wanted a quick word. John explained that he was interested in running some sessions...
Shop Till You Drop! We’ll Benefit Too!
In the run up to Christmas there are ways you can help to support musicworks! Our friends at the brilliant Nottingham store Dukki Gifts are celebrating their first birthday and are holding a fantastic event in their store at the Broadmarsh Centre that will raise funds...
‘Music in Care’ Supported by Donation from John Lewis’ ‘Music Matters’
In June, we announced that we had received a grant from the John Lewis Partnership's 'Music Matters' fund for our Care Homes Project fund. (see previous article here) On the 17th of November, Louise Law and James Cordin from John Lewis Partnership in Nottingham,...
PRESS RELEASE – Caring for Rushcliffe Carers – A Music Oasis
Rushcliffe Clinical Commissioning Group and Nottinghamshire County Council are providing a workshop for Carers in Rushcliffe to learn about the power of music to enhance their quality of life and providing them with a specially designed toolkit “My Music Oasis” from...
Open Mic Night is Back!
Following on from their successful Open Mic Night fundraiser in 2014, two local performers, Amanda Bruce and Lucy Theobald are organising another ‘Open Mic Night’ in aid of musicworks. The event was a huge success and so they are back at the Poppy and Pint this August...
Thank You John Lewis!
We're pleased to announce that musicworks have been awarded a grant by the John Lewis Partnership's Music Matters fund. The John Lewis Partnership has been making grants to support musical activities of all kinds for over 75 years. Grants are awarded for specific...
What is ‘The Soundtrack to My Life’?
The 'Soundtrack to My Life' was the first of the musicworks three 'Music in Care' toolkits. It was designed for people living with dementia and other memory loss conditions. John Osborne developed 'Soundtrack' following his own experience as a carer for...