Independent Arts' popular singing for wellbeing project 'SingAbout' has celebrated a milestone birthday recently.
Last month (March) the scheme celebrated its tenth birthday and has reached over 600 Islanders in that time.
During the last decade, the project has improved the health and wellbeing across the Island, as well as reducing loneliness and isolation.
It has also been a year since the pandemic forced the group to move online.
In 2016, the groups released their own bid for Christmas number, which featured on the BBC’s The One Show.
Community Engagement Manager Hannah Griffiths said:
“SingAbout has been a lovely project to be involved with. We have a dedicated and talented team of practitioners who really care about their work and the group participants.
“All the groups have formed close connections and we do talk about them as the SingAbout Family. The wonderful thing is that SingAbout is open to everyone, it’s about singing because of the joy of it, not because you’re good at it, which makes it really inclusive.”
Since the Covid-19 lockdowns took hold, face to face sessions have been closed, but sessions moved on to Zoom and the singers celebrated their first year of virtual SingAbout with an afternoon of singing some favourite party hits.
Picture taken prior to the pandemic.
Amy Normanton – virtual SingAbout practitioner added:
“It was lovely to have something to celebrate after a year where times have been really tough. At this time, more than ever it has been important to provide sessions that promote lung health and a bit of escapism too.
“The group have chosen all the music for the last year, we’ve sung everything from songs from Les Mis to I will walk 500 miles and much more in between. The important thing is we all laugh and smile all the way through.
“It’s been wonderful to see the virtual group thrive and grow into a really supportive community all looking out for each other and looking forward to meeting each week. We always finish the session with a version of ‘We’ll meet Again’, which I hope we can do very soon.”
To join virtual SingAbout or get information on any of Independent Arts projects please call 01983 822437 or email [email protected]
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