Welcome to Take a Deep Breath CIC
Changing Lives Through Singing
Our Mission
At Take a Deep Breath CIC, we are going to provide vital mental well-being support for communities that are unable to access services due to a lack of availability, or in some cases, they fail to exist at all. We aim to fill these gaps. We will actively promote what we do and how we can provide mental health and wellbeing support for local communities through our work in the creative arts sector.
Core Values
Through a holistic approach, our goal is to provide mental health and wellbeing support for individuals, groups and projects through music, singing, songwriting and creative arts. We will become advocates for mental health awareness. Our goal is to provide support and provisions, where there is none. We will educate and open up discussions to address the taboo that still exists around struggling with mental health issues.
What We Do
The clinical research and evidence into the benefits of singing, music and songwriting for mental health is now widely known. Take a Deep Breath supports people of all ages groups through creative singing, songwriting and music programmes. We provide workshops, facilitated sessions and projects for groups and individuals. Our expert practitioners include professional musicians, creative artists and practitioners with a wealth of training and experience. They have also worked with many community projects where mental health and wellbeing has been the central focus.
One example of our work has been identifying the impact of mental health after serious brain injury. The gap between returning home after brain injury and finding support to start a new life is very wide and very long. This commonly results in severe depression for the sufferer and has far-reaching consequences for family and friends. For the sufferer, this often results in depression, marriage breakdown, alcoholism, prison and in some cases, suicide.
By providing programmes and projects when it’s needed most, we address the growing gap we have identified and provide support that normal service provisions are simply unable to fill.
We are delighted to confirm that The National Lottery Community Fund have awarded us a grant for £20,000 to support a two year project we want to create. We will be providing weekly music and social sessions for survivors of brain injury and their carers.
Every 90 seconds someone is admitted to A & E with a brain Injury. The impact is life changing and the recovery can be very long, hard to live through and difficult to process. Some people never make a full recovery.
By offering a free weekly service of music and singing for brain injury survivors plus a separate space for carers to sit and chat over a coffee, we aim to provide valuable support during an extremely difficult period when it is needed most.
Partners & Funders
