Addressing The Climate Crisis
17 April, 2024
We have been working with our mentor Dave McKenny exploring the climate crisis
Making music to help improve health and wellbeing
What do we do?
We are music-makers, delivering musical opportunities in health and social care settings.
We deliver music making in several hospitals across the East Midlands, we run a range of community music making sessions, and we deliver training to healthcare professionals and carers, to support our vision that music should be an intrinsic part of health and social care, everywhere.
Over the past 20 years OPUS has grown and developed through partnerships with Room 217 in Canada, and working alongside NHS professionals in the UK, we are one of the UK leaders in music-making and bringing music into healthcare settings.
Music-making
in hospital
We work across various hospitals in the East Midlands to provide music-making on children wards, Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) and in Children and Adult Mental Health Services (CAMHS).
Music-making
In the community
We work with the community to deliver music-making sessions with the help of local musicians to connect with our community.
Music Care
Training
We train healthcare professionals and carers, sharing the benefits of music for health and wellbeing and how to ustilise music-making.
Healthcare Musician
Training
We provide training and apprenticeship opportunities for musicians to enable them to use music-making in their practice.
What are the benefits?
Music supports physical, emotional, and mental health
Music can reduce anxiety, stress, blood pressure, and pain
Music can improve sleep quality
Music can boost mood, mental alertness, and memory
At OPUS Music we create music for wellbeing, with the aim to enhance the wellness in the people we meet through music-making. We invite people to join in with our music-making and share and experience those moments together. We perform songs that people may know and may want to join in with, and we also create sounds and melodies, experiencing the music making that comes out of a moment of creativity.
Music-making offers autonomy and allows the individual to lead and express themselves through the act of music-making. This allows people to express themselves, and offers a non-verbal form of communication which offers connection and can break down barriers to interaction.
Our Impact
Discover the impact of OPUS music. Hear stories from healthcare professionals, families, and community members moved by our music-making. Join our campaign for change, advocating music as a vital component of health and social care to improve wellbeing.
Find out more about what we've been up to...
Finding the right Rhythm
4 March, 2024
How does drumming support your health and wellbeing? We asked Rich to shed
OPUS Community Music Sessions
31 January, 2024
Thanks to the generous support from Arts Council England, OPUS has been able
