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20th Anniversary Year Fundraising

The Mind and Soul Community Choir are celebrating their 20th year having first met on 2006. Can you help us continue for another 20 years? We support people via singing both in the community and on the wards of the Maudsley Hospital.

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The Mind and Soul choir’s aim is to transform lives through singing. (www.mindandsoulchoir.org ). Our objective is to promote mental wellbeing through singing and reduce the stigma that surrounds mental illness. The choir was founded in 2006 funded through an initial grant from the Maudsley Charity. The group currently has between 20 and 40 members. It is based in Southwark. What makes the group unique is that the singers rehearse every Wednesday from 6 to 7pm at the Maudsley Hospital itself in the heart of Southwark, one of the UK’s leading mental health hospitals. (www.slam.nhs.uk ). The choir is non-auditioned, free and open to staff, service users, friends, carers, family, and members of the local community. The choir is made up of members from the local area of Southwark. We have regular participants who are currently residential on the wards. Throughout the year we have an additional ongoing project where the musical director and some choir volunteers take music directly onto the wards to reach those with the most severe mental health issues who cannot physically attend the choir.

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2026 is the 20th Anniversary of the Mind and Soul Choir.

The Mind and Soul choir is a group of service users, carers and staff from Camberwell who meet weekly at the canteen in the Maudsley Hospital to sing together toimprove their mental well-being. We use singing and songwriting as a tool to aid positive mental health.

Mental health issues can strike anyone, but in Southwark, where the choir is based it is estimated that almost one in five adults in Southwark are experiencing a common mental disorder, equating to approximately 47,000 individuals so there is a great need. As one of our members says, "when I sing it feels like topping up my oyster card for the week.....without the benefits of singing, I don't know how to mentally face the week.....by coming I am recharged and ready for the week has to throw at me". The benefits of singing for mental health issues are widely researched and include reducing cortisol associated with stress, aiding good breath techniques as well as forming social connections.

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