Good Vibrations works across the UK in partnership with prisons, young offender institutions, secure hospitals and community organisations. We run music-making projects where participants make their own music, put on performances, and create recordings. These projects are all about listening, communicating, working as a team, problem solving and reflecting. They are accessible, and don’t require musical experience.

Our approach is holistic and person-centred. Our projects are about relationships – between participants and facilitators, between members of the group, between participants and staff or carers, and the relationship each participant has with themselves. We facilitate, rather than teach. This creates safe spaces and gives participants ownership of their work, which has a transformative effect. We help participants explore and reflect on how they are in groups, and let conflict play out as this is natural, and can lead to creative problem-solving.

We work with some of the most marginalised people in the UK, in prisons, secure hospitals and in the community. Our expert team of facilitators support participants to grow in confidence, deepen their communication and social skills, and develop more positive self-identities. They connect with their creativity and musicality, find community with others, and build a sense of hope for the future.