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Status
Received: 2 days late
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Income
£113.2K
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Spending
£151.8K
Public benefits
Purpose 1: The direct benefits which flow from this purpose include the advancement of the arts in all communities, professional arts practitioners, amateur arts enthusiasts, and disabled artists gaining access to arts expression for the first time, and with unique adapted instruments and interfaces. Music: an art form relevant in various ways to
most people's lives, but often constrained in the experience of people with disabilities. It is advanced through DMPNI's work by devising means by which such people can gain access to the experiences of composing and performing music; enabling them to work creatively together and with professionals; expanding their contact with and understanding of a wide range of musical styles; equipping them to continue to develop and improve. Purpose 2: The direct benefits which flow from our purpose of bringing relief to those with a disability include improved living conditions, improved personal worth and empowerment, improved access to society, to the environment around a person, to peer learning and inclusion, reduced isolation, reduced frustration at loss of empowerment and peer inclusion.The charity researches and designs specialist equipment and advice for those whose wish to participate in musical activities is constrained by their acknowledged disability/disabilities. Improvement in service-users' self-image is expected to flow from developing ways for them to overcome their physical constraints to controlling musical sound, from providing routes into personal creative expression, and from their working creatively with others in an inclusive environment. There is a direct focus on overcoming the individual's specific personal disability - for example in designing a new interface which empowers new control. Service-users become equal contributors in a shared activity, helping to reduce their sense of exclusion. The consequences of these factors are frequently seen to include a reduction in anxiety, frustration or isolation, as well as positive improvements in personal contentment and social confidence. Purpose 3: The direct benefits which flow from our purpose to advance education include improved access to learning for young and old, first time access to education for elderly, physical access to learning in an independent manner Musical education generally relies on the physical participation of the learner, and so is easily constrained for those with a physical disability. Other forms or combinations of disability also often militate against the motivation or tenacity needed to make satisfying progress. Education is advanced through DMPNI's provision through several technological developments and encouragement, a mixture of group and individual approaches. Emphasis on the promotion of self expression and a breath of musical styles explored. The direct benefits from our purposes are demostrated through service user feedback, questionnaires, results from interface design and creation, adaptation of existing interfaces to allow independent control, surveys, analysis of methods and empirical research and examination of results. We also gain regular independent evaluation of strands of our work, and involve users and the wider community in evaluation sessions, the outcomes of which are evaluated and fed in to our forward planning sessions. We cannot foresee a situation where these purposes could result in harm or the possibility of harm. The beneficiaries of these purposes are children and adults with disabilities - physical, learning, social or complex. They may become service-users through links with a community group, educational special needs provision or by individual application. Incidental private benefit in increasing breadth of experience and understanding will inevitably strengthen those who run the charity (Trustees) or provide the services (Associate Musicians), this is necessary and, in fact, expected as an outcome of continuing improvement.
... [more] [less]What your organisation does
The Drake Music Project Northern Ireland provides access to independent music making for children and adults with complex disabilities. Workshops in composition and performance skills are afforded by the provision of adapted computer interfacing technology, in order that physical and cognitive ability is matched to an appropriate gestural
interface, allowing people with disabilities the opportunity to express their creativity in an independent and controllable environment. Inclusion, enabling and personal and community achievement are core values that underpin and define the work of our project.
... [more] [less]The charity’s classifications
- The advancement of education
- The advancement of the arts, culture, heritage or science
- The relief of those in need by reason of youth, age, ill-health, disability, financial hardship or other disadvantage
Who the charity helps
- Children (5-13 year olds)
- Men
- Older people
- Physical disabilities
- Sensory disabilities
- Women
- Youth (14-25 year olds)
How the charity works
- Arts
- Education/training
- Research/evaluation
