Camerata in
the Community
Our work in the Community uses music to improve lives across cultural education and health & social care.
Be it providing vital music therapy for people living with dementia, training professional carers and running dementia Music Cafes as part of our Music In Mind programme, or empowering young people through our music-making work in schools, bringing together communities through music is at the heart of what we do. We work with a highly skilled group of specially trained professional musicians, music therapists, composers and theatre makers to develop and make this work happen, alongside more than ten years’ research partnership with The University of Manchester.
Some of our recent work
Just Play It.
In aid of our musicians and staff running the Manchester 10k we’ve made a limited edition Just Play It. T-shirt.
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Award Winners!
The Camerata 360° Ruth Sutton Fellowship has won a prestigious ABO award.
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The Telegraph ‘Classical music’s ‘miraculous’ effect on dementia’
“Pioneering musicians are trialling a radical approach that takes treatment beyond medicine – and could save the NHS millions” Ivan Hewett, The Telegraph
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Manchester Camerata appoints Nic Hailey as Chair of its Board
We warmly welcome Nic Hailey as our new Chair of our Board of Trustees
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Music in Mind Inspiration Day
At the start of this year, we kicked things off with an Inspiration Day for our Music in Mind Family
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Music Cafés Launched across all ten boroughs of Greater Manchester as part of our national Centre of Excellence for Music and Dementia
Following our successful bid earlier this year to launch the UK’s First Centre of Excellence for Music and Dementia – we are bringing our ground-breaking Music in Mind programme for people living with dementia to all 10 Greater Manchester boroughs
Find out more >Music and dementia
There are currently around 850,000 people with dementia in the UK. This is projected to rise to 1.6 million by 2040. Our award-winning specialist music therapy programme is already making impact to thousands of individuals living with dementia across the North-West, and we have plans to upscale this globally.
Find out more about our work with dementia >Music and young people
Our schools projects use creativity to promote personal and social development throughout school life. Our work raises self-confidence and self-esteem, which impacts upon wider school engagement and achievement.
Find out how we help young people >Music in Mind: Remote
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