My week started off at St Brides with Kenny and John. I love the group at St Brides it is such a wonderful mix of culture from Scottish to Chinese, from English to Eastern European. It is a reminder to me of all that we can learn from one another. It was also great to have Roddy on violin and the sound was amazing.
Tuesday saw me writing an evaluation support for St Brides following the gathering of people’s comments on our evaluation tree. It is always good to hear what people are taking from the different groups that we offer. Hearing the voices of those who attend mean that we can evolve in a direction that those using the service are happy and content with.
I also attended a webinar about fundraising, it was good and informative so hopefully when filling in our fundraising forms I can be more focused and achieve more success.
We had a great day on Thursday, in the morning we delivered training to our next group of volunteers. I am not sure where Elizabeth gets them from, but we are privileged to have such high-quality volunteers. It was so good to hear their questions and enquiries, this active learning makes me feel very positive with regard the project and what we can deliver in the future. In the afternoon we were in The Gyle shopping centre supporting Alzheimer Scotland with Dementia Awareness week. It was a brilliant afternoon with both choir members and shoppers singing together. Sweet Caroline was so good, so good, so good!
On Friday I did a review of the Music for Health and Well Being at Open Door. It was so encouraging to read the feedback from participants. It is very clear just how much people feel that they are supported and listened to and have a chance to express themselves through the project. During the project each person has created a music mosaic that tells the story of their journey through life using music. What came out of the review was that we will use the next few months to build those mosaics into a musical scrapbook. A scrapbook that considers the music we sing in the shower, the music we listen to when having our meals, the music we listen to when doing the ironing, hoovering or washing up. We originally thought of these as music health plans, but they sound so much more creative and vibrant as a scrap book.
Hope you have a great week; you never know you might be inspired to do your own musical scrap book.