Making Waves
FREE Music Sessions
Making Waves is a weekly innovative music and media project for at-risk children and young people experiencing difficult challenges in their lives. Working one to one or in small groups we offer music and media sessions which create positive change and inspire young people to thrive.
Our unique programme promotes wellbeing and positive choices through developing creative, technical and vocational skills and opens pathways to mainstream opportunities in education, training, work experience and employment.
Music is a great tool for expression and allows young people to talk about the subjects they are normally excluded from and take ownership of their own futures.
The project also delivers vital pastoral support and care and offers participants the opportunity to be involved in the process of organising and delivering events.
For those young people who come to the programme from the youth offending service, our stats show:
The project has achieved an 85% success rate in keeping the young people referred from offending behaviour.
Outcomes from Making Waves showed that our intervention work at South Street led to a 75% positive progression rate for young people referred by Suffolk Youth Offending Service, and 85% demonstrated a reduction in the gravity of their offending and/or a reduction in the frequency of their offending.
For more info contact alicia@ipswichcm.org.uk
Thanks to match funding by the National Lottery’s Reaching Communities Grant, Making Waves is now a partnership project delivered by Out Loud Music alongside ICM, and match funded by Suffolk Police and The Crime Commissioner.
