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10/06/2026
Artist Volunteers: promoting positive mental health through music
This post and image were created by Key Changes Artist Volunteers during our weekly online session.
Through the Artist Volunteer Programme, volunteers give back to the charity, develop digital media skills, build community, and use creativity to support positive mental health.
The Artist Volunteer Programme is for artists who are completing, or have completed, one of our programmes. It offers a progression pathway that helps people stay connected to Key Changes, maintain a sense of community, and continue developing their confidence, skills and creative identity.
As Artist Volunteers, we use music, creativity and peer support to help give people a voice.
Many of us bring lived experience of mental health challenges. Through volunteering, we support other artists, represent Key Changes, and help create safe spaces where people can build confidence, connect with others and challenge stigma.
We give our time across community events, open mics, wellbeing sessions and creative health activities. By sharing our creativity and experience, we help raise awareness and encourage others to get involved.
Here’s what some of our Artist Volunteers said:
“The Key Changes Wellbeing Group has made me much more confident.”
“I have furthered my ambitions in the music industry and collaborated with others who struggle with their mental health.”
“Key Changes has helped me get back into music production, improve technical skills, mix tracks, and now I volunteer to represent Key Changes.”
“I have enjoyed recording songs that I wrote with Key Changes, and the producers have a highly professional way of developing the finished product.”
“There’s a lot of the psychology of enjoying music.”
Artist Volunteers show how creativity, peer support and safe spaces can be a powerful force for positive mental health.
🎙️ Hosts Stuart (aka Psychosis 0161) and Katie Neal explore the world of Music and Mental Health.
🌟 Special Guest: Muddy
In a world that moves fast and demands more mindfulness invites us to slow down and tune in. Today we're exploring how mindfulness practise of being present and aware intersects with music, creativity and mental health. Whether it’s through intentional listening, meditative songwriting, or simply breathing between beats, mindfulness can be a powerful tool for emotional balance and artistic clarity.
In this episode, Stuart and Katie are joined by guest Muddy for a reflective conversation about mindfulness, creativity, emotional balance, and the role music can play in helping us become more present.
A thoughtful discussion about slowing down, tuning in, and finding clarity through music. 💚🎶
👉 Listen now:
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This week’s Musicians Wellbeing Session 🎶
Our free weekly online Musicians Wellbeing Session is a relaxed, peer-support space for musicians to check in, connect, and talk openly about mental health and wellbeing — using music as our shared language.
🧠 This week’s theme: Trust Your Intuition
We’ll explore how intuition shows up in music, creativity, performance, and everyday wellbeing, including:
• trusting your instincts in the creative process
• knowing when something feels right — or not right
• moving beyond overthinking, perfectionism, and self-doubt
• listening to your body, emotions, and inner signals
• finding confidence in your own creative choices
As musicians, intuition can shape how we write, produce, perform, collaborate, and connect with others.
“To play a wrong note is insignificant; to play without passion is inexcusable.”
— Beethoven
This session isn’t about getting everything “right.”
It’s about noticing what you feel, trusting your creative voice, and making space for passion, expression, and honest connection.
💬 Peer-led • lived experience • supportive space
🎧 Come to listen, share, or just sit in the space
🎹 No performing. No pressure. Come as you are
We’re hiring: Freelance Finance Manager
Key Changes is looking for an experienced Finance Manager to support our charity’s financial systems, reporting and compliance.
Role details:
• Freelance, 1 day per week
• £25 per hour
• Remote
• Applications reviewed on a rolling basis
• Final deadline: Friday 26 June 2026
This role will support finance procedures, controls, Xero reporting, payroll preparation, budget and cashflow reporting, and year-end accounts.
We particularly welcome applications from people underrepresented in the cultural sector.
Full application pack and details via the link in bio.
12/05/2026
For Mental Health Awareness Week we're we’re bringing the joy of music into hospitals, studios and communities across Manchester, Liverpool, Birmingham, London and Brighton. 🎶
Every week participants are working alongside professional producers, artists and music industry mentors through:
1-1 studio sessions
Open mic nights and performances
Artist development workshops
Peer support and Musicians Wellbeing groups
Songwriting, recording and creative collaboration
Volunteering, training and employment opportunities
Our programmes create safe, trauma-informed spaces where people can build confidence, develop skills, connect with others and focus on recovery through music.
From hospital wards to professional recording studios, our sessions can open doors, reduce isolation and remind people they’re not alone.
🎶 “Music always makes me feel happy when I’m sad.” – Jasmine Allen 🎶
Jasmine Allen is a 20-year-old trans woman, singer/songwriter and occasional rapper creating music inspired by soul, R&B, disco and 90s rap. Influenced by artists including Michael Jackson, James Brown, Marvin Gaye, Prince and The Temptations, Jasmine brings classic funk and neo-soul energy into her sound.
“My first memory of music is listening to MJ and practising his dance moves.”
Music has been an important outlet for Jasmine’s wellbeing and self-expression, helping transform emotions into creativity and performance.
Currently working on a new song called Secret Lover, Jasmine has also recently released:
✨ City Lights
✨ Why Don’t We Live Together
✨ Everyone Needs Love
“All of it leans towards funk and neo soul vibes.”
🎶 Brighton & Hove Studio Sessions 🎶
Creative space. Professional support. Real opportunities.
Studio sessions in Brighton & Hove offer the chance to:
Work 1–1 with experienced music producers
Develop sound, skills, and confidence
Connect with others through artist development and wellbeing sessions
Take steps toward performance and progression opportunities
Open to musicians in Brighton & Hove looking to collaborate creatively and work towards professionally produced, finished recordings in a supportive, trauma-informed environment.
Interested in getting involved?
Link in bio
26/04/2026
This week’s Musicians Wellbeing Session 🎶
Our free weekly online Musicians Wellbeing Session is a relaxed, peer-support space for musicians to check in, connect, and talk openly about mental health and wellbeing — using music as our shared language.
🧠 This week’s theme: The Importance of rest for artists and producers
We’ll explore how rest plays a key role in creativity, energy, and mental health, including:
• pressure to always be creating or releasing
• burnout and creative blocks
• guilt around resting or slowing down
• different pressures for rappers, singers & producers
• how rest supports creativity, focus, and wellbeing
This session isn’t about being more productive or doing things “perfectly.”
It’s about recognising the need for rest, understanding how it affects us as musicians, and creating space to slow down without guilt.
💬 Peer-led • lived experience • supportive space
🎧 Come to listen, share, or just sit in the space
🎹 No performing. No pressure. Come as you are
Leigh Patterson or Medley creates music which blurs borderlines between sample-driven instrumental Hip-Hop music and the more experimental side of Contemporary Classical.
His musical influences range from Joanna Newsom to JPEGMAFIA and his first two cassete purchases were Wu-Tang’s Enter The 36 Chambers and Mad Skillz - From Where??? Which feature production from heavyweights J-Dilla and the Rza, none less.
His first memory of music was listening to his Dad play Rock, Funk and Soul vinyl and other times guitar at home and feeling like he wanted to join it too. He would later recall hearing music whist being out with family or friends, as if he was inside a film. This internal soundtrack would follow and keep him hole throughout his boyhood.
Music became centric to his every existence, an extension of himself and a reason to be. In his young adult years, however, he went through several mental episodes in which music was always the requeim. Leigh endured a perioid where he had to stop listening to music with lyrics because he felt he was involved with or was the protagonist of the lyrics and stories he was hearing; he started to hear himself in the words. Overcoming this was tough but gave light to the instrumental picture behind the words and a love for instrumental hip-hop would reign after.
🎶 Introducing Tuesday Sweet Blue🎤
Blending the grit of Janis Joplin and Tina Turner with the bold pop flair of Brooke Candy and Paloma Faith, Tuesday Sweet Blue is a London-based artist whose music is as raw and powerful as her story.
From performing at the BBC Proms and reaching the Young Musician of the Year finals at the London Palladium, to rediscovering her voice through music made while in hospital — Tuesday’s journey is one of creativity, courage, and recovery.
💙 Working with Key Changes, she found strength and purpose through music:
“Key Changes saved my life. They gave me the strength to never give up on my music aspirations.”
Her new three-track EP ‘Delta’ out now on Key Changes Records — a celebration of resilience, artistry, and hope.
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