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
Music-making sessions
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.
Song bags and Thrive Playlist
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.
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.
