News & Views

• Call for nominations to join the Sound Sense Board of Directors
• Explore the who/what/where/when/why of community music training
• Professional indemnity insurance for our members

• Support and campaigning for safe singing during COVID-19
• Call for ideas for Training The Community Musician 2022
• KeyNote speakers for our student research symposium

• Food, opera, physiotherapy and more in our Sounding Board journal
• Help, resources and inspiration for working with COVID-19 guidelines
• Huge thank you to Åsa as she leaves the Sound Sense team

This page is Sound Sense members' space to access and share resources and advice relating to safe practice during the pandemic.

As always, we warmly encourage you to connect with our community via our Gatherings, social media, and Bulletin Board newsletter for support, friendship and inspiration. If you have any COVID-19 related resources you would like to share with fellow community musicians please do get in touch on info@soundsense.org.

• Training the Community Musician, the conversation continues
• Call for proposals: Positionality and the role of the researcher
• Resources to help you with social prescribing, making music online, supporting children and young people, and much much more!

• Announcing our TTCM 2022 symposium at Bristol Beacon
• Information, training and resources to help you as lockdown eases
• An inspirational new edition of Sounding Board journal

• Celebrating #communitymusic each and every Member Monday
• Call out for NYMAZ remote music learning festival
• Vital resources for practitioner mental health

• Inspiration, support and training to see in the new year
• Our round up of funding opportunities for community music
• Call out for the new Anthem Youth Music Forum for Wales

• Drum roll as we introduce our newest Sound Sense team member
• New ways for us all to connect as a community in 2021
• Lots of job, training and funding opportunities for you to explore

• Congratulations and welcome to our new Board members
• Update from the International Society for Music Education (ISME)
• Jobs, training and resources for community music practitioners

Hello Sound Sensers!

I’m Jess Abrams – Edinburgh-based Music Practitioner, Educator, Musician and now Chair of Sound Sense. I’m so delighted and honoured to step into the role.

• Have your say in the 2020 board elections - hurry, voting closes soon!
• Connect with fellow members online at our AGM and Gatherings
• Resources and guidance for community musicians during the pandemic

• Your invitation to the 2020 Sound Sense online AGM
• Nominate yourself for election to the Sound Sense Board
• Congratulations to Rhian Hutchings, Anthem's first Chief Executive

• Sounding Board journal: our second digital issue is now online
• More support to help you work safely as lockdown measures ease
• Sound Sense board elections announced for Autumn 2020

• Sound Sense Gatherings: connecting our community online
• ICCM Student Research Symposium postponed until 2021
• Important update on your Sound Sense public liability insurance

• Sound Sense awarded ACE emergency grant to maintain and grow ArtWorks Alliance
• ISME Community Music Online Conference now open to all
• Connect with others working with trauma-informed practice

• Government funding announced for charities and social enterprises
• Soundcastle launches community space to support practitioner wellbeing
• Sounding Board: a new digital format for the journal of community music

• Call for papers: announcing our 6th Student Research Symposium
• Pioneering new digital approaches to youth music delivery
• DBS checks now fully online for Sound Sense members

We are operating under unprecedented circumstances, with a lot of uncertainty and the Sound Sense team and board are aware that this is impacting on the work of our members.

Our aim is to do what we can to support you in whatever way we can, so that when we come out the other side of this, we will continue to be a strong, functioning community of musicians.

This is a challenging time for all of us, but it is also a time of being creative, of connecting with others and of thinking outside of the box. The Sound Sense team will do our best to share the inventive ways our members find to deliver work during this time and to connect people up as best we can.

• Job opportunities and CPD for community music practitioners
• Connect with fellow members using our Find a Musician directory
• Music and mental health: the next Music Education Council seminar

• Join us in York for the 6th ICCM Student Research Symposium
• Have your say as DfE launches consultation for national music plan
• University of Leeds launches Centre for Cultural Value partnership

• Sounding Board journal celebrates an amazing 30 years
• Last chance to book your ticket for TTCM 2020
• Our pick of the new year's jobs, training and conferences

• Mapping youth music provision in Wales
• Jobs, training and networking opportunities for community musicians
• Wishing you a Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!

• Announcing five new Board members for Sound Sense
• New, improved DBS check service for our members
• Research partnership invites you to participate

• Booking is now open for Training the Community Musician 2020
• Everybody welcome at the Sound Sense AGM on 7 November
• Take your place on the Music for Dementia map

• Call for submissions for the 34th ISME World Conference
• Nominate yourself to join the Sound Sense Board of Directors
• Our pick of the jobs, events and training on offer this Autumn

• Training the Community Musician full report published
• Your chance to influence how Sound Sense is run
• Jobs, training and resources for community music practitioners

• ISME World Conference call for submissions
• Reporting from the MEC Summer Seminar
• Follow us on Instagram @soundsenseuk

• Training the Community Musician 2020 - save the date!
• Book now for MEC seminar on priorities for the music education sector
• Scroll down for a bumper crop of jobs and training opportunities

• Call for contributions: ICCM student research symposium
• Jobs for practitioners in Lincoln, London and Republic of Ireland
• Plan your CPD for this summer and into the academic year ahead

• Announcing the 5th Annual ICCM Student Research Symposium
• Boost your professional practice with our online safeguarding training
• Have your say in our 2019 Sound Sense Member Survey

• Training the Community Musician: the conversation continues
• Safeguarding training now available online for Sound Sense members
• Community music job opportunities in Kirklees, Bristol and York

• Music education on a cliff edge? State of the Nation full report released
• A Restless Art: read François Matarasso's new book on participatory art
• Training, conferences, jobs and resources for community musicians

• Book now for our Training the Community Musician symposium
• Download the latest report on the benefits of music in care homes
• Plan for 2019 with our roundup of jobs, training, events and resources for community music practitioners

In this issue:

• Welcoming three new Board members for Sound Sense
• Professor Lee Willingham to open our Training the Community Musician Symposium
• Merry Christmas and Happy New Year 2019 to all our members

In this issue:

• Booking open for Sound Sense's Training Community Musician Symposium in Aberdeen
• New research looks at the value of music activities for young parents leaving care
• Free online access to Culture, Democracy and the Right to Make Art: The British Community Arts Movement

In this issue:

• Sound Sense launches new corporate plan, Community Music Everywhere
• Have your say in our new & emerging leaders stakeholder survey
• Partnership Agreement template for Sound Sense members

In this issue we celebrate our wonderful Sound Sense board members: Bela, Sarah, Paul, Marina, Tim, Graham, Jess, Adele, Siggy, Zoe, Rosie and Simon. Read about how you can join them in our forthcoming elections.

Also we announce the first in a series of symposiums, Training the Community Musician, taking place next year in Aberdeen.

In this issue:

• Help us put community music practice on the map - your responses needed for major MU research project looking at the state of music education in the UK
• MEC autumn seminar "Nurturing a sustainable music education workforce"
• TMF's new code of practice and quality framework

In this issue:

• Greetings to colleagues in Tbilisi and Baku
• Public liability insurance for Sound Sense members - important update
• Mental health helpline for musicians, and much more

In this issue:

• The Ethics of Community Music Research 2018 - call for contributions
• Major reports launched into music education in Wales
• All the latest community music conferences, training and job opportunities

In this issue:

• Take our member survey into SEN and Music Technology
• Mapping non-formal music provision in London
• Jobs for music practitioners, project managers and more

In this issue:

• The Music Commission evidence gathering - how to have your say
• Improved public liability insurance cover for Sound Sense members
• Join in with Make Music Day 2018

In this issue:

• ICCM Student Symposium 2018 call for contributions
• National Alliance for Culture, Health & Wellbeing launch
• Sign up to the Music Education Code of Practice

In this issue:

• Update from Artworks Alliance
• ISME announces new grants and awards
• Jobs for tutors, directors, coordinators, composers and more

• Sound Sense launches Coaching for Creative Teams
• Early Years music conferences in Scarborough and London
• Big Conversation results show the positive impact of participating in creative activity

From February 2018, our new "Coaching for Creative Teams" scheme will be open to anyone working in community music practice who wants to develop a specific project or business idea.

Coaching sessions will  be run by Sound Sense director Åsa Malmsten, an experienced creative producer and coach with many years experience of leading creative teams through commissioning processes and business development.

In this issue:

• Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year 2018!
• Resources to help you get ready for GDPR
• The Oxford Handbook of Community Music (30% discount code)

In this issue:

• A warm welcome to five new Board members for Sound Sense
• Celebrating 20 years of Hands & Voices, AAM's flagship singing and signing choir
• Tools and resources to help you with Quality

In this issue:

• Join us in York for our Student Research Conference
• Book now for the next MEC seminar looking at the future for music education
• It's time to vote for your Board of Trustees

In this issue:

• Resources to inspire music in care homes
• New approaches to traditional music education
• Your opportunity to join Sound Sense's Board of Management