At Music for All, we advocate for music makers and campaign to promote the many scientific benefits resulting from making music. We work to raise awareness of how increasing opportunities for music making could be integrated into everyday life and education and bring attention to the challenges faced by music makers, working with sector colleagues to remedy these.
In July 2024, we launched our Music Makers’ Charter, to highlight the decline in music making opportunities and the importance of investment in well-conceived, low-cost music making initiatives. Click here to support our petition and help raise awareness.
Below we have added some useful further reading about the benefits of making music:
Benefits of Music Making
- All-Party Parliamentary Group - Arts, Health and Wellbeing (July 2017)
- All-Party Parliamentary Group for Music Education, the Incorporated Society of Musicians and the University of Sussex - Music Education: State of the Nation report (January 2019)
- UK Music and Music for Dementia - Power of Music report (July 2022)
- Susan Hallam and Evangelos Himonides - The Power of Music: An Exploration of the Evidence (2022)
- McKinsey & Company - Assessing the direct impact of the UK arts sector (November 2023)
- Dr Simon Saunders, Trustee for Music for All's, blog
Music Benefits in Education
- Music Mark - 10 Things Every School Should Know about Music (2020)
- Youth Music - The Sound of the Next Generation Report (April 2020)
- Pro Bono Economics - Do the arts perform at school? (June 2022)
- Music Mark - Governors Guide to Music Education (2022)
- Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation and A New Direction - The Arts in Schools Report (2022)
- The Music in Secondary Schools Trust - Annual Impact Report (2022-2023)
- ISM - Advocating for music in schools: A guide (2024)
- Sistema Scotland, Glasgow Centre for Population Health
- Music Mark - Get Playing
- Arts Apocalypse - Time for change in a failing system
