A charity which uses music to support people with complex needs is set to launch a new project at a psychiatric hospital.
For more than 20 years, Good Vibrations has used communal music-making to help people in challenging circumstances develop transferable life and work skills.
The charity deploys its services in prisons, secure mental health units and communities, using Indonesian gamelan instruments as well as music technology.
Projects aim to help participants tell their own stories while normalising access to the arts.
Good Vibrations has recently received a £6,000 grant from the London Freemasons Charity to deliver its Loophole Music project at Bethlem Royal Hospital in Monks Orchard Road, Beckenham.
Artists will work with patients at the psychiatric hospital to create, compose, perform and record new songs and music based on their life experiences.
Open to all patients as part of the occupational therapy offer, the project offers an open-minded, inclusive and safe creative environment.
Jenni Parker, chief executive officer of Good Vibrations, said: “We know that music can change lives and that projects such as this can have a significant impact on the lives of those to take part.
“Thank you to the London Freemasons Charity for ensuring that we can continue this important work.”
Pictured top: Good Vibrations has used communal music-making to help people in challenging circumstances for 20 years (Picture: Good Vibrations)
