Strategy day
Ground rules
Everyones opinion counts - we want to hear from you.
Commercial sensitivities. Pronouns and inclusivity.
Agenda and housekeeping
Introduction & scene setting Simon 30 minutes
Noise Solutionsome context Simon 60 minutes
The intention - a challenge to you! Simon 30 minutes
Exploring the shifts we need to make Vikram 120 minutes
Lunch All 60 minutes
Exploring the shifts
(cont) Vikram 90 minutes
Planning Vikram 120 minutes
Next steps Simon 30 minutes
Purpose of the day
What do we expect from you?
Arguments, differences of opinion and lively debate!
Everyone has a point of view - all are valid - we want to include and amplify the voices of those who are Noise Solution experienced! Confidentiality, sensitivity and inclusivity.
Why have you turned up for us? ?
Noise Solution context
14
around a kitchen table…
It is important to lay out why Noise Solution began:
1. Opportunity: I had the space
2. Experience: Music/youth work/social enterprise
3. Desire to make a difference & have fun
£200 + an idea + 1st set of Sessions funded by Lapwing.
Simon goes full-time and starts to take on Freelancers. Start thinking about demonstrating impact.
Damien joins, and we start developing Salesforce. Academic investigation starts.
Organisation now working with up to 20 musicians across multiple counties.
Today
years and 345,000 emails later, after an idea sat
2009 2023 2020 2016 2011
Important organisational growth points
More recent growth
Geography
People
2018 2022 2021 2020 2019 CEO Ops Director CEO Ops Director Senior Musician Senior Musician CEO Ops Director Senior Musician Senior Musician Finance CEO Ops Director Senior Musician Senior Musician Finance CEO Ops Director Project Manager Senior Musician Senior Musician Finance
2018 2022 2021 2020 2019 Suffolk Norfolk Suffolk Norfolk Cambridgeshire Suffolk Norfolk Cambridgeshire Essex Suffolk Norfolk Cambridgeshire Essex Suffolk Norfolk Cambridgeshire Essex Hertfordshire
People and £’s £ 2018 2019 2020 2021 2022 2023 0 Income Expenditure Net Participant referrals by calendar year (last 5 years)
Our proposition
No curriculum, no learning goals, just a question..”What do you want to make?”
Who do we work with?
Delivering 420 hours a month of 1:1 music mentoring, across the East of England, with youth facing multiple challenges around
๏ Emotional Based School Avoidance
๏ Looked after children struggling to thrive
๏ Low attendance
๏ Lack of motivation
๏ Low self-esteem
๏ Low engagement
๏ Neurodiversity
๏ Anxiety
๏ Depression
๏ Students at risk of exclusion
Sharing stories to create conditions that increase well-being
Supportive digital communities - enabling participants to feel ‘seen’
Why does it work?
Autonomy supportive mentoring and relationship building with their musician
Autonomy
Relatedness
Competence
Feelings of competence - through quick wins and becoming their own expert - at something perceived to be complicatedmaking music
what do people actually get
Musician Assigned
20 hours: Home and studio sessions
๏ Referral, web based (secure)
‘MyStream’ cloud platform for sharing to family and keyworkers, participants music and rich video re ections on their weekly experience
Intro videoemail automation etc
๏ We assign a professional musician who posts intro video, triggering email automation onboarding and then organises when and where sessions happen
Musician organises when and where
๏ Over 20 hours (either in-person or online), we provide an encouraging, fun environment to learn new skills and create the music the participant wants to listen to, whatever the genre.
๏ Participants safely share session highlights to their ‘MyStream’ feed (a private and secure online space) and invite friends/keyworkers and family to leave their feedback.
Well-being data captured within ‘MyStream’ wk 1 and wk 10
Weekly post session report emailed to keyworker and SLT
๏ Musician updates professional referrer with weekly reports
๏ This creates a supportive digital community around the participant which celebrates their success and, in doing so, increases protective factors.
Online secure Referral 1 2
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Weekly
10
Family/Carers Participants Professionals
posts
Current work and footprint
Staff resource Geography currently covered
4.2 FTE, servicing 420 hours/month on average. 70 active session blocks Around 19 referrals a month. With 20 musicians. potential capacity to do roughly twice this many hrs
Awards
Headline stats
Using music as a vehicle to increase well-being we’ve achieved the following:
Read case studies here
Estimated to be saving families and local authorities a Million pounds a year
www.noisesolution.org
Halved low levels of well-being for last 340 participants (we use an NHS well-being scale)
Increases in well-being a statistical probability for complex situations
76% see a meaningful increase in well-being, with 15-25 young women seeing largest increases in well-being
Recently featured by both ITV and BBC, for transformational impacts
We regularly see reengagement, increased school attendance, progression
92% of organisations re commission
Current market
Geography
Approximate addressable need
We’re currently delivering 420 hrs a month, with approx 70 active session blocks ongoing, working with 250 young people a year. Against a backdrop of…
health - estimated prevalence of common mental health disorders population aged 16 and over (2017, NHS) Link here NEET/SEND/EHCP - Subsets of Participation in education, training and
Population Suffolk: 91,887 Norfolk: 117,651 Cambs: 75,081 Essex: 178,196 Herts: 131,131 Mental Health 14.8% 15.8% 14.2% 14.9% 14% NEET 9.2% 11.9% 7.2% 7.6% 6.2% SEND 10.3% 10.8% 10.4% 8.5% 12.3% EHCP 5% 5.9% 5.4% 3.8% 3.6%
NEET
Academic
Mental
age 16 to 17 by local authority 2021/22
year (DfE) Link here
Intent and challenge(s) for the day
Vision for 2028
Noise Solution is available to anyone who needs it, in England.
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The size of the challenge
62 Unitary Authorities 32 London Boroughs 36 Metropolitan District Councils 21 County Councils 164 District Councils ICB’s/Public Health? Gov.uk, April 2023. Available at: https://www.gov.uk/guidance/local-government-structure-and-elections
Key characteristics
What are the low hanging fruit?
LA areas similar to our current footprint.
Initially avoid inner cities, hyper-rurality - we have no experience here.
Our non-negotiables
People
• We will treat people properly. We want everyone we work with to feel authentically valued.
• Decisions about people should include people. If a decision affects a group of people we want their voice to contribute.
• Equality, diversity and inclusion will be at the heart of our work.
Process
• We will maintain a focus on outcomes at all times, and be truly data and impact driven.
• We will maintain a proportionate and sensible approach to safeguarding, maintaining a focus on the individual.
• We will consistently apply ethical processes in our gathering and use of data.
• We will be place-based. This means understanding local needs and cultures, and using local staff unless this isn’t possible.
• We will only use ethical funding sources, and will carry out due diligence to verify this.
• We won’t cut financial corners. All services will be costed on a full cost recovery basis. It’s ok to make surpluses.
• Our culture is one of openness and transparency, both good and bad. We will share our work, to allow others to learn from it. When we get things wrong we will be transparent about what happened, what we learned and what we did about it.
• We will act legally and ethically at all times.
• We will maintain our core character. This includes being arsey when we need to!
Money
Culture
Q&A
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