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We run our ReConnect in partnership with Caring in Craigmillar, which provides care services for older people in the Edinburgh area.

LISTENING TO THE MUSIC REALLY CLEARS MY HEAD, I COULD LISTEN TO IT ALL DAY EVERY DAY IF I COULD.

ReConnect participant, 2023

SPRING 2024


Fridays at Caring in Craigmillar 12 - 1pm

Friday 12th January
Friday 19th January
Friday 26th January
Friday 2nd February
Friday 9th February
Friday 16th February


For further details about the programme, please contact connect@sco.org.uk

Jane Bentley completed her PhD degree at Strathclyde University, focusing on musical relationship and interaction. She has worked musically in dementia care settings for over 15 years. Alongside her freelance career as a musician, consultant and trainer, she works part-time for the National Health Service in Scotland as a musician in mental health occupational therapy services, focusing on older adults. In 2015 she was awarded a Churchill travelling fellowship, to study the role of music in the wellbeing of older adults in Asia, and visited Japan, Korea, Malaysia, and Singapore.

Delivered in partnership with

NHS Lothian and the University of Edinburgh

Kindly supported by

The Morton Charitable Trust and the Gladys Jane Wightwick Charitable Trust

Our Creative Learning Partner

This project was made possible by the generous support of Baillie Gifford. Their sponsorship is enabling us to reach thousands of people in communities across Scotland.