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The main costs of this project will be running the sessions as follows: We will also commit time and resource to marketing and publicising the singing initiative: making contact with a range of key ....more

The main costs of this project will be running the sessions as follows: We will also commit time and resource to marketing and publicising the singing initiative: making contact with a range of key links in the local community such as the Horton discharge team; Radio Horton, local GP practices; Cherwell District Council; Oxfordshire County Council adult social care teams; Social prescribing staff; the Clinical Commissioning Group, local agencies and charities such as the Cornhill Centre, Housing 21, Sanctuary Housing, Age UK Oxfordshire and Carers Oxfordshire, BBC Oxford, Banbury Guardian, Banbury representatives of the new Age-Friendly Cultural Network such as Banbury Museum, the Old Mill etc. We will aim to set up intergenerational activities which bring the members of Singing for Well-being and other older people together with students from primary and secondary schools, and this will contribute to the 'Age of Creativity' festival in May, where the age-friendly cultural network in Banbury will be coming together and in which the key theme is 'intergenerational', on the basis that research about the U-shaped age curve of loneliness (Victor 2010) tells us that young people are at risk of loneliness and isolation as severely as older people

Singing at Ark-TA grant of £4,860 would establish Singing at Ark T as an ongoing resource for the communities of Cowley, Rose Hill, Littlemore and Blackbird Leys. Modeled on Barton Sings, our ....more

Singing at Ark-TA grant of £4,860 would establish Singing at Ark T as an ongoing resource for the communities of Cowley, Rose Hill, Littlemore and Blackbird Leys. Modeled on Barton Sings, our singing project generously funded by OCF in 2015 - two mentees visited Barton Sings as part of our mentoring programme and then developed placements at the Ark T as a pilot, which was extended under supervision of a Mentor. The grant would support 40 x 2 hour, weekly sessions, including an important refreshment break, which transforms social bonding effects of singing into friendships, support and encourages group community participation.

35 weeks, weekly sessions of inclusive, participatory group singing for two hours including refreshment break.