Soundabout
Charity number: 1103002
Website: www.soundabout.org.uk
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Description:
Everyone should be able to access and experience music. We use music, sound, and silence to create opportunities where learning Disabled children and adults with complex support needs thrive.
We bring people together across the country through inclusive choirs, community-based music-making groups, interactive outdoor learning with sound making, themed indoor multi-sensory experiences, and online music-making accessible wherever and whenever they are most needed for families.
Soundabout supports around 1,300 participants per year through accessible music making opportunities and training for families, carers, and professionals so they use our techniques in daily life.
Over the past twenty-eight years, Soundabout’s approach has supported Learning Disabled people's voices to be heard, while supporting:
- communication
- friendships/community
- self-expression
- enjoyment
- health and wellbeing
One parent told us: "It’s a scary reality for my daughter's future and so it is incredibly comforting to find people who work so hard to find things that are inclusive and that are accessible to all with no limitations, like Soundabout. You SEE her as a person, as an individual and show her respect and dignity with every interaction. That means so much. Every sound, breath, and movement she makes means something who so many ignore, but even through a screen, you guys embrace those and instantly puts value on her existence and participation as a person, an individual and as a human being. I will always be so very grateful to you all for that.”
Find out more about Soundabout here: Soundabout.org.uk