Singing for Health
This feel-good initiative invites members of the community aged 55 years and over to come along and enjoy a song – all abilities welcome and no experience necessary! With groups currently meeting weekly, participants see these sessions as a great way to meet people, improve breathing and posture, focus the mind and have fun!
Much has been written about the benefits of singing for the older person- helping to recover a sense of purpose, creating a feeling of teamwork, aiding self-confidence and a shared sense of commitment. It has been demonstrated how those with memory or speech problems can tap into a part of the brain which can access songs – and words – used many years prevously.
For details of the Singing for Health groups currently running and public events, please see the ‘latest news’ section.
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Northern Orchestral Enterprises Ltd (NOEL) is a non-profit organisation committed to providing music-based activities and opportunities for all to enjoy and appreciate, whatever their age or level. Formed in 1996 by John Pryce-Jones & Barry Collarbone and based at Dean Clough in Halifax, NOEL is passionate about music as a unique form of communication with intellectual, social and physical benefits!
Our projects, run on the principles taught by Hungarian composer Zoltán Kodály, include a series of workshops to help teachers and musicians bring this accessible and enjoyable form of methodology into their classrooms, choirs and communities.
NOEL is reliant on funding from an annual, but by no means guaranteed, grant from West Yorkshire Grants as well as a matrix of sponsorship and donations from the business community, private trusts and charities.
