About Noise Solution Noise Solution is a social enterprise which delivers 1:1 music mentoring sessions that have been independently proven to improve well-being amongst a population labelled ‘hardest to reach’. Uniquely, mentoring is enhanced through a digital platform that engages participant, family and professionals. As well as contributing to wellbeing impacts, the platform also captures and evaluates well-being impact both qualitatively and quantitatively. This duality of approach solves issues of rigorous impact capture often experienced by third sector organisations.
Our approach Our approach is two-pronged. We have developed a digital sharing platform (re ective for participants and families of everyday social media experiences) which has been designed speci cally to engage, compliment and reinforce an individualised 10-week mentoring program currently focused on music technology and beat-making (though we believe the options for widening the pedagogy to include other art forms or activities other than music are strong). We utilise both the bene ts of personalised mentoring and a digital platform to connect and embed the impacts that the approach has by sharing participants success and encouraging external validation from those whose opinions the participant values. Additionally, all aspects of every interaction are measurable and reportable within the platform. Importantly, the participants voice in the form of comments and video re ection is front and foremost driving the process, rather than being an added-on evaluation exercise postintervention. The platform inclusively engages participants (often refusing or struggling with engagement), their families and professional keyworkers around a story of the participants success (strengths based). This digital sharing scaffolds re ection for participants and family and reinforces successes whilst also allowing us to measure the impacts on well-being. The platform builds in rigorous statistical analysis and comparison against nationally benchmarkable well-being data (SWEMWBS), developed by the NHS and Warwick and Edinburgh Universities.
The evidence base Our methodology arises from £100k investment in research and development over the last 5 years, plus a twoyear Research Masters at Cambridge University. This research looked at the evidence underpinning the psychological needs which have to be supported to increase engagement, understand and increase well-being, and how to measure change meaningfully. For a deeper understanding of the theoretical underpinnings of the work, Simon Glenister MEd (CEO, Noise Solution) has published about Noise Solution’s work and the evidence base. You can read more here. In 2016 The Social Investment Consultancy carried out a year-long external evaluation report, looking at our impacts. The evaluation found that Noise Solution was highly statistically signi cant in positively impacting on well-being amongst its population. These results have been consistently replicated since.
Why well-being? Whilst Noise Solution presents as a music project, our focus is on positively impacting on well-being. We focus on well-being because signi cant empirical evidence proves that if we improve well-being we get better health, social, educational and engagement outcomes. By focusing on well-being we can effect change in all of these
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areas, which means our approach is applicable across a wide range of people.
