Thrive Project embeds music-making in domestic abuse settings, creating hopeful, creative experiences for children, young people and families.
It is a long-term partnership between WWIN and We Make Culture.
Thrive sits alongside our wider work with children, young people and families across the city.
While our core programme offers open, long-term spaces, Thrive focuses on children and families who are least likely to access those opportunities, working in the places where support is already happening, and where music-making can make a real difference. It also links participants into ongoing opportunities, so it’s not a one-off, and there’s somewhere to go next.
A big part of Thrive is figuring out what actually works. We build in time to reflect, learn and adapt, and use that to make the case for music-making as part of recovery and creating hopeful futures, alongside more traditional therapeutic approaches.
Thrive - Hear My Voice was created to amplify the voices of the children and women we work with.
Animation: Kathryn Robertson.
Audio capture and sound design: Bridie Jackson.
Music: Liz Corney, Emily Wiseman and the participants of 'The Rising Up Project'.
Created using generous funding from Sunderland City Council, as part of the VAWG Mini-Missions project.
Elements of THRIVE
We deliver music-making sessions in WWIN’s refuge settings. They’re open and flexible, shaped by whoever is in the room that day - giving children and families a chance to play, make things and spend time together in a different way.
Music-making sessions
Song bags and playlist support families as they move on from refuge, using simple resources and familiar songs to keep music-making going at home.
Song bags and Thrive Playlist
Through Thrive, we co-create creative work that shares the stories of the children and families involved. Hear My Voice (above) is the first of these pieces.
Creative Advocacy
We are grateful to Youth Music and National Lottery Community Fund
for supporting this work.
