| Useful
Links
The
links we provide are to sites and organisations we really
care
about, organisations
which have helped us or who share our principles, ethics or
objectives -we give some details but the sites are in no particular
order - and we will change the order from time to time ! (we
just did)
(emails
can easily be accessed directly from their sites)
TOWERSEY
FOUNDATION
www.towerseyfoundation.org.uk
The
Towersey Foundation is a unique charity providing music therapy
in palliative care for people living with life-threatening
illnesses. Music therapy has recently become recognised
and valued for the beneficial effect it has in a variety of
illnesses and disabilities. The use of music therapy in palliative
care is, however, a comparatively new and specialised field.
Professionals working in hospices and special schools are increasingly
appreciating what a powerful tool it is in the total care of
their patients.
JESSIE'S
FUND
www.jessiesfund.org.uk
Jessie's Fund is
a UK charity dedicated to helping seriously ill and disabled children by using
music as a form of communication and for therapy.
CODA
MUSIC TRUST
www.coda.org.uk
CODA's aim is to bring music to life in a beautiful,
inclusive, music making, performance and recording centre;
where making music is recognised as an essential part of personal
development and where tuition and therapy, creativity and performance
sit alongside research into the benefits music brings to the
human condition.
THE
MUSICSPACE TRUST
MusicSpace
A
community based music therapy project, uniquely able to respond
to the growing demand for music therapy.
They provide individual and group music therapy at our Bristol
centre and within other community settings.
NORDOFF-ROBBINS
MUSIC THERAPY
www.nordoff-robbins.org.uk
Music
Therapy is grounded in the belief that everyone can respond
to music no matter how ill, disabled or traumatised. Nordoff-Robbins
is the UK's leading independent provider of music therapy
services, currently providing over 30,000 sessions to children
and adults in need across the UK.
OVINGDON
HALL SCHOOL
www.ovingdeanhall.org.uk
A school for severely
and profoundly deaf children who benefit from specialist care,
which also includes helping those with physical disabilities,
learning, social or emotional difficulties.
MUSIC
THERAPY CHARITY
www.musictherapycharity.org.uk
The Music Therapy Charity was founded in 1969 to support Music Therapists in
the UK. Its principal function is to raise money to fund the research which is
intrinsic to the development and refinement of the growing body of knowledge
used by the profession.
ASSOCIATION
OF PROFESSIONAL MUSIC THERAPISTS
www.apmt.org
BRITISH
SOCIETY FOR MUSIC THERAPY www.bsmt.org
ARTS
FOR HEALTH CORNWALL
www.artsforhealthcornwall.org.uk
improving
health and well being through creativity
LIVE
MUSIC NOW
www.livemusicnow.org.
The
organisation helps
people access the joy of live music in venues such as schools
for children with special needs, centres for adults with
physical and learning disabilities, homes for older people,
young offenders institutions, prisons, hospitals and hospices.
Links
for Events
associated with Sound Waves South West
www.opus-anglicanum.com www.hallforcornwall.co.uk
www.budejazzfestival.co.uk
www.carnglaze.com
www.plough-arts.org
www.northdevonchoral.org.uk
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