We are so grateful for the donation of £810 plus gift aid made to us through the ‘Much Loved’ tribute page, in memory of Muriel Woodman.

From the mid-sixties to the early 1980s, Muriel was a primary teacher specialising in music and art on the Wirral, and after that the head of the then Deeside Teachers Centre in Heswall.

As an artistic lady, Muriel loved music and travel and greatly cared for the people around her, making friends often and bringing joy to all those she met.

This donation has a significantly positive impact on our Charity and will help us provide more music therapy sessions supporting children and adults with health and educational needs.  We feel very privileged to receive it.

We would like to say a huge thank you to The National Lottery Community Fund for awarding us the funding to carry out our Music Together Project at the Hospice of the Good Shepherd in Chester where we will provide music therapy for patients receiving end of life care, respite care, outpatients attending the Living Well Centre at the hospice and their carers.

The difficult time of the Covid pandemic has meant less time with loved ones over the past year, and we are delighted to be able to offer this project to support some of the people most affected at this crucial time.  

THANK YOU NATIONAL LOTTERY COMMUNITY FUND!

HELP US CHANGE LIVES THROUGH MUSIC

We are recruiting volunteers to join our board of Trustees

We are looking for people with the following skills and experience:

Fundraising.

Health and Social Care.

We need people with specific skills who are able to give some of their time to help us. You will have the opportunity to work closely with a small and friendly team and the chance to make a real difference to our charity.

Applications are particularly welcomed from people from the BAME community

The MPNW board of trustees meets five times a year, usually virtually and occasionally in our Centre in Liverpool. This opportunity is for an initial three-year term.

How to apply:

Contact Gill Miller (Chair of Trustees  gill.miller@aol.com ) or Mary Clayton (Coordinator musicplace@liverpool.ac.uk   ) if you would like to arrange an initial informal discussion, or alternatively, forward your letter of application and CV to musicplace@liverpool.ac.uk

Application deadline: Applications for this volunteer position can be submitted at any time.

We have been providing online music therapy sessions throughout the Covid Pandemic in order to continue to give support to our clients during these difficult times.

We are very grateful to everyone for their support this year.

Our Aviva Crowdfunder campaign raised a fantastic £1,439 (including Gift Aid). Many thanks to all our supporters who gave so generously and helped us set up our digital music therapy service.

In the summer we received the brilliant news of a Covid 19 Emergency Fund grant from the Steve Morgan Foundation. This grant helped us expand our digital service, including buying much needed equipment.

We were delighted to receive a grant from the National Lottery Coronavirus Community Support Fund, part of the Government’s £750m support package for charities. This grant has helped us continue to develop the digital service and plan a new outreach programme. More news of this exciting project to follow!

It has also been wonderful to have had support from ‘LCR Cares’, the Liverpool City Region Covid 19 Community Support Fund (managed by Merseyside Community Foundation). This grant has helped us with the essential core costs of running our service and enabled us to provide music therapy sessions to a wide range of people, including face to face sessions where this has been possible. Music is a wonderful tool for bringing people together even whilst maintaining social distancing. There has been a big increase in the need for emotional and mental health support over the last year.

A VERY BIG ‘THANK YOU’ TO EVERYONE!

Hi everyone, one week left to reach our target!!

We are SO grateful to you all for supporting our Aviva Community Fund project ‘Music therapy online’ and for your generosity. One of our clients said recently ”Our lives would all be so much the poorer without this vital joining together through the wonderful language of music“.

Could you help us by sharing the link with your friends?

https://www.crowdfunder.co.uk/music-therap#start

THANK YOU SO MUCH!!😀😀

Many thanks indeed to all our kind supporters who’ve donated to our fundraising campaign .You are helping us provide on line music therapy sessions for vulnerable and isolated people. Thank you!

We’re fundraising through LocalGiving to help us sustain and adapt our music therapy services throughout Covid-19 social distancing measures for people needing support across the North West.

We are providing on line music therapy sessions for some of our service users.

The aim now is to expand the therapy sessions and make them available to anyone who feel they could benefit from such support.

Any help you can give would be greatly appreciated.