Insights from
Music Challenge Fund: Canfod Y Gân (Discover The Song)
Project evaluations
An evaluation report of Canfod Y Gân, a project bringing together disabled and non-disabled people in music-making sessions.
Canolfan Gerdd William Mathias (CGWM) developed and ran Canfod y Gân (Discover the Song) between April 2019 and Summer 2022. The project worked with 51 disabled and non-disabled people on a regular basis, delivering music-making sessions to support wellbeing and increase social connection.
GGWM worked with an independent evaluator, Cwmni CELyn to reflect on their work.
The report explores:
- the factors that made the project successful for participants, including the regular opportunities for performance, the mix of individual and group support and the professional development for musicians;
- impact of the partnership with the adult social care team, including benefits of taking part for care workers, who were able to;
- the challenges CGWM had in surveying people with learning disabilities using standardised measures, and gives examples of the adaptations the team made to understand the difference they were making;
- how GGWM successfully pivoted to delivering online music sessions during the height of COVID-19.
CWGM also worked with the Behavioural Insights Team to produce a logic model for the project. You can read that here, and we would be delighted for other projects to adapt this for their own work.