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Media EnquiriesFor more information or to coordinate an interview with Phillipa Reive please contact:Philippa Cahillphilippa.cahill@Phone: 07958 360 112Snape Maltings hosts a unique event to explore how singing can improve mental healthExperts from across the UK and Europe to attend ‘MARCH Singing and Mental Health Sandpit’ event at SnapeSnape Maltings, 8 January 2020 – Sixty-five music practitioners, arts and health researchers and health policy-makers from across the UK and Europe are today attending a special event at Snape Maltings to explore the value of singing to help support and maintain mental health. The event is designed to identify ideas for new research and practice proposals. It is the latest event in Snape’s Creative Campus programme of Thinktanks and network events devoted to exploring the role of music in society.Phillipa Reive, Director, Creative Campus at Snape Maltings, said: “We are thrilled to welcome so many singing for mental health stakeholders to Snape for this exciting event. Being awarded this funding from the MARCH Plus Fund is testament to the value of the Creative Campus here at Snape, in bringing people together from different regions and backgrounds, and providing the right environment for them to work together and make groundbreaking discoveries and relationships.” “Music practitioners instinctively feel strongly that participating in singing can be hugely beneficial for mental health there is no doubt that more evidence is needed. One of the key goals of the event is to developing new research frameworks that will help fill that gap, and we couldn’t be happier to be at the start of that journey.” Although studies have been limited in number, there is evidence that singing can have a positive impact on mental health. A systematic review of the available evidence conducted in 2016 found positive mental health benefits in singing and other musical activities, and concluded that there is particularly strong evidence that singing and other musical activities can enhance mental wellbeing and help prevent mental health problems in older people and vulnerable groups.1The Snape Maltings event is one of eight UK ‘Sandpit’ projects that received an award from the MARCH Network ‘Plus’ fund, a scheme designed to support research in how social and cultural engagement, including with the arts, can help mental health. Dr Daisy Fancourt, Head of the MARCH Network, said: “The MARCH Network is delighted to be funding this Sandpit event. The Singing and Mental Health Special Interest Group brings together an expert group of researchers, artists, third sector organisations and individuals with lived experience. This event has enormous promise for developing strong research proposals that will help to take our understanding of the impact of singing on mental health to a new level.”A ‘Sandpit’ event is designed to bring together specialists from a wide range of disciplines who work together to find areas of common interest and solutions to challenges. The event at Snape Maltings will bring together experts from the music and mental health worlds, as well as researchers who work at the intersection of arts and health.Dr Dave Camlin from the Royal College of Music who is co-chairing the event, said: “This promises to be a very exciting day of surprises, with representatives from a range of practice and research backgrounds coming together to explore singing and mental health. We’re hoping that it will lead to some new approaches to researching practice in this field, which recognises the importance of harnessing both practical and theoretical understanding in the development of singing as an effective way of addressing mental health challenges. Snape is the perfect place to do this, a space very much outside the everyday but parallel to it, somewhere that inspires people to think differently.” Approximately one in four people in the UK will experience a mental health problem each year.2 Mental health is the single largest cause of disability in the UK, and it is estimated that in England alone the cost to the economy from mental illness is ?105.2 billion each year.3 Mental health features significantly in the NHS Long Term Plan4 published in January 2019, in line with its prioritisation in the Five Year Forward View.5-ENDS-NOTES TO EDITORSAbout the Sandpit eventThe Sandpit event is co-chaired by Phillipa Reive and Katherine Zeserson of Snape Maltings, along with Dr. Dave Camlin of the Royal College of Music. It has been designed to bring together researchers from academic and non-academic contexts together with practitioners and policy makers. Work will focus on gathering knowledge and insights which will help inform future research.About the MARCH NetworkThe?MARCH Network?is funded by UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) and was launched in 2018 following the Cross-Council Mental Health Plus call to further research into mental health.?MARCH focuses on?social,?cultural and community assets?– which includes the arts, culture, heritage sites, libraries, green spaces, community centres, social clubs, community associations and volunteer groups – and the role they play in?enhancing?public mental health and wellbeing,?preventing?mental illness, and?supporting?those living with mental health conditions. The MARCH Singing and Mental Health Special Interest Group exists to establish and sustain a dialogue about group singing and mental health in order to strengthen praxis across arts and health settings in the UK, considering group singing both as a community-building asset, and as a targeted intervention in clinical contexts.About Snape MaltingsSnape Maltings is one of the world’s leading?centres of music?and a place of energy and inspiration for people ranging from concert audiences to musicians developing skills on courses and residencies, and from young people performing on a professional stage for the first time to artists and researchers exploring music’s potential to improve lives.Snape Maltings has grown out of the?Aldeburgh Festival, founded by Benjamin Britten in 1948 and now one of Europe’s leading classical music events.?Britten’s vision?for Snape Maltings remains central – a place international in its reach while rooted in its local communities.In addition to presenting a world-class performance programme, Snape’s Creative Campus supports a wide variety of musicians as creators, collaborators and performers through a year-round programme. Over the next 10 years Snape Maltings is expanding this focus to become a national and international hub, bringing together all those involved in music’s place in the world: musicians, researchers, clinicians, communities and audiences.Learn more about Snape Maltings at . Find out more on Twitter @snapemaltings. # # #ReferencesDaykin N, et al. 2016. What Works Centre for Wellbeing. A systematic review of the wellbeing outcomes of music and singing in adults. Volume 1: music and singing for wellbeing in healthy adults. (last accessed December 2019)About mental health. NHS England. (last accessed December 2019)No health without mental health. A cross-Government mental health strategy for people of all ages. Department of Health. (last accessed December 2019)The NHS Long Term Plan. January 2019. (last accessed December 2019)The Five Year Forward View. October 2014 (last accessed December 2019) ................
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