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90 Minute Music with Active Fusion

I’ve loved it today and I would really like to do this again. E. B. age 8

Over 150 session attendances over the past week. Great to be teaming up with Active Fusion again.

Creating partnerships is vital for the work we do in the community and it is a special feeling to be able to support our local area.

One of the children today stated that he didn’t like music before the session began, but went on to contribute well with the group and engaged well with technology.

We have encountered this a few times over the years and showing young people that they can do things that they don’t feel confident about is important to us.

We are not going to pass on 24 years of experience in a short period of time, but we can show them that there is a place for them in the world of music.

Returning to join up with Active Fusion has given us the opportunity to build on the foundations of our previous work on communication and respect. We moved on to exploring music from around the world to coincide with the commonwealth games. The young people benefitted from being allowed to experiment with instruments from far and wide which in many cases they are experiencing for the first time. We believe in giving opportunity by removing barriers of cost and geographic location.

We will be back supporting Active Fusion again soon, big thanks to the staff as always for making me feel part of the team and thanks to the young people for their effort and enthusiasm.

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R.U.F.C. & H.B.C.

All about creation this week. We start with nothing and work together to create something by focusing on goals and finding creative ways to get there.

Following on from our work of recognising the value of others and an introduction to the building blocks of Music, we created some beats and looked at how rap music uses syllables, and the relationship to phonics in school.

The facilities at the New York Stadium are great and provide a positive environment for young people to develop. It was rewarding to see young people gaining confidence, by finding their voice through our informal youth led approach.

We were also back at Highfields Boxing Club for our penultimate session. We took part in a challenge to create a full arrangement and song within the time frame of the session.

Incredible focus and team working. We produced an original song with 4 different sections, music and used audio effects to support the production. I’m really proud of the way this group have developed and also the way they have introduced new comers to the group.

As always thanks to Liz and John for allowing me to use the Boxing Club as a venue, also thanks to Jonny at Rotherham United for supporting grass roots providers such as 90minutemusic.

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Active Fusion Easter Camps 2022

Awesome to be asked to return to support Active Fusion on their Easter camps across Doncaster. We delivered to over 350 young people and it was personally rewarding to hear some, who I had worked with last summer relaying information which they had retained from our previous session.

We gave the young people with previous experience a chance to pass on their knowledge, which empowers them and supports confidence building, it was also good to see the Active Fusion staff rewarding this supportive behaviour.

We worked on communication, discipline and explored music from India and South America. 100% engagement. Well done to all who took Part, special thanks to the staff and volunteers who got hands on to make this project successful.

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Rotherham United Community Trust

Wonderful to be welcomed back to support the young people of Rotherham. We were not short on energy and enthusiasm today.

The facilities are in place at the New York Stadium to support development of the health and wellbeing of the local community for years to come.

We will be back on April the 20th. Thanks to Jonny for inviting us and Ant and Zoe for making sure we were looked after.