Music In Mind

Call out for volunteers to become Music Champions in Tameside & Oldham! Manchester Camerata is partnering with Tameside, Oldham & Glossop Mind to bring its award-winning Music in Mind work for people living with dementia and their carers to Tameside & Oldham, as part of hosting the UK's first Centre for Excellence for Music and Dementia. • Opportunity to become a Music Champion, learning techniques to integrate music into dementia care. • Free weekly Music Café sessions for people living with dementia and their carers. • Manchester Camerata's Music in Mind programme is built on over 10 years of expertise in partnership with The University of Manchester. • Part of the UK's first Centre of Excellence for Music and Dementia, which was awarded to Manchester Camerata earlier this year. The UK's most relentlessly pioneering orchestra, Manchester Camerata, is expanding its sector changing Music in Mind project for people living with dementia and their carers. Camerata, partnering with Tameside, Oldham & Glossop Mind will be hosting two free Music Cafés for people living with dementia and their carers to attend. Here, volunteers and family carers will be given the opportunity to become Music Champions. They will learn basic music therapy-based techniques grounded in Camerata Music in Mind methodology to improve the lives of friends and loved ones living with dementia. Music in Mind is an internationally renowned programme that uses the principles of music therapy to improve the wellbeing of people living with dementia. The programme was created in collaboration with research partner the University of Manchester and was devised from the foundations of some of the world's leading dementia experts. Camerata has worked with partners in Hong Kong, Taiwan, Sweden and Japan as well as in the UK, to help them set up their own music and dementia programmes – and is now expanding this across Greater Manchester. This project is part of Manchester Camerata's Centre of Excellence for Music and Dementia, a £1.1 million project backed by Power of Music Fund (established by the National Academy for Social Prescribing, the Utley Foundation and Arts Council England), Mayor of Greater Manchester Andy Burnham and the NHS Greater Manchester. The funding will support three years of direct musical activities across all of Greater Manchester’s 10 boroughs, starting in October 2024. If you have 2 – 3 hours a week to spare and would like to volunteer as a Music Champion in Tameside or Oldham, to help run Music Cafés for people living with dementia and their carers in the community, we would love to hear from you. Please contact TOG Mind: volunteer@togmind.org According to the NHS, there are over 940,000 people in the UK who have dementia with 1 in 11 people over the age of 65 being affected. The Alzheimer’s Society suggests that by 2025 there will be over 1 million people with dementia in the UK, projected to rise to nearly 1.6 million by 2040. Currently, the care of these people in the UK costs over £34 billion per year. The long-term goal of this - the UK’s first Centre of Excellence for Music and Dementia - is to use the knowledge and research built up over the next three years to analyse how the implementation of music in dementia care can reduce the need for health and care services whilst simultaneously improving quality of their life. About Manchester Camerata Be it opening Glastonbury Festival in front of 40,000 people or working intimately in care homes across Greater Manchester with people living with dementia, Manchester Camerata believes in the transformative and connecting power of music. It constantly challenges and redefines what an orchestra can be. Led by its visionary Music Director, Gábor Takács-Nagy, and its artistic partners, Manchester Camerata has toured internationally, performing in the world's most iconic concert venues with the greatest artists in classical music. A hunger to push its craft forward has led the orchestra to seek out new spaces and collaborations, partnering with pioneering producers from the underground electronic music scene and bringing music into the hearts of schools and communities. Manchester Camerata’s groundbreaking Music in Mind Programme for people living with dementia is backed by 12 years of research in partnership with The University of Manchester. The orchestra is seen as a world leader in music and dementia healthcare. Based at the Monastery in Gorton, Manchester, the Camerata sees a vibrant and exciting future for classical music, investing in the next generation of musicians in the north with its Camerata 360° Ruth Sutton Fellowship programme. Manchester Camerata believes that music has the power to change the lives of people and transform the prospects of places. Find out how you can get involved in the Music in Mind Music Champions programme at: www.musicinmind.org Or contact: musicinmind@manchestercamerata.com Find out more about Manchester Camerata at: manchestercamerata.co.uk/about-us