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- 16 June 2025
- Alexia Quin OBE
Our latest CPD event to inspire Interactive Music Makers’ practice: A focus on more complex needs among very young children
United Kingdom
In today’s Interactive Music-making CPD session, we spent some time really thinking about ways one Interactive Music-Maker might extend her work with children with more complex needs, including significant physical disabilities.
- Caregivers
- Children
- Disability
- Interactive Music-Making
- News
- 4 June 2025
Access the new Music Helps (UK) training platform today: for dementia caregivers.
United Kingdom
Our new training site is now live! Discover practical ways to use music to support people living with dementia with our free online course. Sign up today at musichelps.training
- Caregivers
- Dementia
- Adults
- Unpaid carers
- Music Helps
- News
- 16 May 2025
Announcing our new Interactive Music-Making Course Leader
United Kingdom
We’re excited to welcome Lucy Osborne as our new Interactive Music-Making Course Leader – a dedicated role created to strengthen and lead our structured training for early years practitioners.
- Caregivers
- Children
- Interactive Music-Making
- Organisation
- Blog
- 7 May 2025
- Alexia Quin OBE
IMM Observation Visits
United Kingdom
As the blossom has been blooming, Interactive Music-Making course leader Alexia has been exploring different corners of London as she has visited this year’s cohort of Interactive Music-Making trainees during their Practical Assignments.
- Caregivers
- Children
- Activities
- Interactive Music-Making
- Blog
- 28 April 2025
- Alexia Quin OBE
Sustainability and Ecological Practices
United Kingdom
Last Month, Alexia visited Arts Therapies trainees at Anglia Ruskin University to provide a guest lecture entitled “Sustainability and Ecological Practices in Music Therapy: Beyond the Buzzwords”
- Caregivers
- Activities
- Strategy
- Blog
- 1 April 2025
- Alexia Quin OBE
Building confidence in Interactive Music-Making: Reflections on our latest CPD Session
United Kingdom
Our latest CPD event brought together Interactive Music-Makers to reconnect, share experiences, and explore ways to keep music sessions meaningful. It was great to hear practitioners who trained with us in 2022 showing such commitment to integrating Interactive Music-Making into their early years practice.
- Caregivers
- Children
- Activities
- Interactive Music-Making
- News
- 27 March 2025
Reporting on Music Helps (UK) Development (Sprint 1)
United Kingdom
Our new training platform is taking shape with improved accessibility and navigation, thanks to our collaboration with Nick Balneaves (Southbrae Digital). Looking ahead, feedback from a diverse group of testers will guide the next development phase in April.
- Adults
- Caregivers
- Dementia
- Elderly
- Music Helps
- Strategy
- News
- 25 March 2025
Our Interactive Music-Making students begin their Practical Assignments!
United Kingdom
With a later course cycle for this year’s Interactive Music-Making programme, our 8 students are now embarking on their Practical Assignments, running their own series of music-making sessions with the young children at their early years settings.
- Children
- Disability
- Interactive Music-Making
- Activities
- News
- 7 February 2025
The re-development of our Music Helps(UK) training platform
United Kingdom
We’re developing a new training platform to enhance Music Helps (UK), improving accessibility and support for caregivers. While we build, the course remains open for enrolment, helping caregivers use music to support people living with dementia. Stay tuned for updates!
- Dementia
- Caregivers
- Adults
- Music Helps
- News
- 28 January 2025
Taking Music Helps (UK) to Home Instead’s national conference!
United Kingdom
Makeda and Elsa will be showcasing the impact of Music Helps (UK) to widen its reach among home care providers across the UK.
- Dementia
- Adults
- Caregivers
- Elderly
- Music Helps
- Inspiration

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Our latest CPD event to inspire Interactive Music Makers’ practice: A focus on more complex needs among very young children

Access the new Music Helps (UK) training platform today: for dementia caregivers.

Announcing our new Interactive Music-Making Course Leader

IMM Observation Visits

Sustainability and Ecological Practices

Building confidence in Interactive Music-Making: Reflections on our latest CPD Session

Reporting on Music Helps (UK) Development (Sprint 1)

Our Interactive Music-Making students begin their Practical Assignments!

The re-development of our Music Helps(UK) training platform

Taking Music Helps (UK) to Home Instead’s national conference!