Singing For Health, Singing For Life

Wherever You Are, Whatever You Do, WE Want To Sing With You

Who We Are

Frances Turnbull

Frances Turnbull BSc MEd HNC MBPsS FRSA is an early childhood music specialist, researcher, author and self-taught guitarist. Playing contemporary and community music from the age of 12, she trained as a maths and science high school teacher in South Africa before moving to England to teach.

Melanie Cossins

Melanie Cossins BA (Hons) Cache Dip 3 CPD Cert Early Years Music has been teaching music to children for over fifteen years and built up a wealth of experience working with parents and young children, nurseries, junior and infants, as well as adults. She is proud to have worked with the Wakefield Theatre Royal Performance Academy as a singing tutor; she also led adult mental health and wellbeing singing groups and sessions for vulnerable teenagers.

Pamela Eaton

From leaving school, Pamela Eaton BSc MA RHV RMHN MIHPE PGCE Dip Counselling (Dementia Friend) had an over-riding ambition to help to improve people’s lives. At the beginning she only wanted to work with children and young people. To this end, she trained and practised nursery nursing, then paediatric nursing and obstetrics. She especially enjoyed working with children and young people with disabilities. She then went on to general nursing, working with adults in many settings.

In Every Session,

We Sing to Build:

Relationship: people are all individuals, so each session is as unique as its participants.

Social Confidence: Every one gets involved voluntarily, as much or as little as they can.

Skill Development: We improve our musical skills each time we sing together, along with social, emotional, cognitive and physical abilities.

Motivation: We change when we are personally invested, when we want for ourselves.

Ownership: We are responsible for our own attendance, behaviour, involvement, and development.

01.

— Our Mission

Inclusivity: everyone, regardless of experience or ability, can sing.
Opportunity: we sing at a time and venue that is accessible to you.
Celebration: we sing through it all, the good and the bad, celebrating you.

02.

— Our Vision

We want the world to sing! We want to create opportunities for everyone to sing, regardless of income, ability or geography.

03.

— Our Story

3 friends from different worlds – education, health, performance – saw the difference that singing made in their own lives and in the personal and professional lives of people around them. Using research-based principles and evidence-based practice, they developed accessible sing-alongs that they trialled online and in the community. Now taking these sing-alongs to different settings, these sessions create opportunities for people to meet and create a beautiful sound. Together.