Our Mission: the development and use of music therapy, as a means to relieve those living in conditions of need, hardship or distress, suffering from mental or physical disability and the effects of poverty or sickness.
Music as Therapy is a UK registered charity. Our main activity is the provision of Introductory Music Therapy Training Projects to help local care staff (our Local Partners) to improve the quality of life for marginalised children and adults with a range of disabilities. We then offer longterm support to our Local Partners as they continue using the new skills running music programmes for the chlidren and adults in their care, after our training team has left. The charity’s roots lie in Romania where, since 1995, we have enabled just under 3000 disadvantaged children and adults to experience the benefits of interactive music-making. There are currently 18 teams of local staff committed to running programmes all around Romania.
In 2009 we re-launched as Music as Therapy International (MasT International) and expanded our remit to facilitate projects with shared values and aims in other countries. Our vision is for MasT International to become the hub of international projects rooted in music therapy. We can help to facilitate the delivery of projects which are taking therapeutic music-making to new communities across the world. Projects which, without experienced and clinically-focused support, might not reach their true potential.
