Making music. Proving it.
1 to 1 music mentoring that halves low well-being — benchmarked against national NHS norms — measured, evidenced, and award-winning. £12.53
Awards, Recognition & Publications
Finalists or winners in 25 national awards since 2019: Including beating Microsoft in the Digital Revolution AI Innovation category
WINNER 2025
Arts Council Digital Culture Awards WINNER 2025 International Forum of Inclusion Practitioners
WINNER 2024
Salesforce Innovation Partner Award
8 YEARS RUNNING
NatWest Top 100 UK
Social Enterprise Index
WINNER 2023 & 2025
NatWest SE100 Impact Award
WINNER 2021
Royal Society for Public Health Award
WINNER 2024
National Digital Revolution Award: AI Innovation
WINNER 2019
PwC Social Enterprise Clarity in Reporting
RECENT PUBLICATIONS
Youth Work, Music Production and Measurement
Editor & Contributor · Routledge
Published Dec 2025
Music for Inclusion and Healing in Schools and Beyond
Contributor Oxford University Press
Published 2024 Oxford University Music Education Handbook
Upcoming Contributor Oxford University Press
To be published 2027
£12.53
£9.3M
Social return for every £1 invested. Independently verified
· Costello Medical
Estimated savings to families & public services in 2024
ANNUAL MENTORING HOURS DELIVERED
+240%
Delivery growth: 2,481 hours (2021) to 7,000+ projected for 2026
800+hrs
1 to 1 music mentoring hours now delivered each month ×3
High well-being tripled in the same cohort 8 years statistical significance p<0.0001
Relationships are everything
No curriculum. No learning goals. No demands. just a question..
”What do you want to make?”
Self Determination Theory
I.8 Million citations - Dr Ryan being amongst the worlds most cited psychologists
SDT evidences that to improve motivation and wellbeing we need to facilitate three psychological needs:
Autonomy - a sense of volitional control
Competence - feeling good at something
Relatedness - feeling connected to and seen by others
SDT is the lens we use across the whole organisation, to determine how we design all of our interactions with people (both face to face and digitally) who engage with us including the participant, those adults around the participant and our own staff.
Relatedness
Autonomy
Competence
"“He became a more evolved, grown up young man. It gave him a safe area to grow, the music being the channel for personal growth. A reassuring OASIS after having had several hard years at conventional schooling that really had left him feeling so insecure.” PARENT
In practice — Self-Determination Theory
AUTONOMY
Feel in control
Young people choose the music, the pace, and who they share their story with. Ownership drives intrinsic motivation and re-engagement with learning.
COMPETENCE
Feel good at something
We enable any participant to create music they value in session one — generating immediate, tangible feelings of success.
Self-Determination Theory (Deci & Ryan) 1.8 million academic citations · World's most cited motivational psychologist · Influencing across NHS, NICE, and education research globally
RELATEDNESS
Feel seen
Each participant shares a digital story with people they care about. Being witnessed and celebrated builds belonging, trust, and social connection. While building analysable case studies at scale - without a feedback form in sight
Well-being Impact - SWEMWBS
USING THE NHS SWEMWBS WELL-BEING SCALE: EACH VERTICAL LINE ABOVE IS ONE OF 500 PARTICIPANTS. BOTTOM OF THE LINE MARKS A START SCORE, TOP OF THE LINE AN END SCORE. ANYTHING IN GREEN IS A MEANINGFUL IMPACT ON WELL-BEING: BELOW IS THE CHANGE IN DISTRIBUTION OF WELL-BEING WHEN AUTOMATICALLY BENCHMARKED AGAINST NATIONAL WELL-BEING NORMS (of n30,000)
Live well-being analysis
Outcome Themes
100% unsolicited feedback from families, professionals, and participants — not prompted surveys or questionnaires. These are spontaneous, authentic testimonies of change. n=225
Re-engagement in education is the dominant reported outcome — directly addressing exclusion, NEET risk, and school attendance.
What Families, Professionals & Participants Say
All quotes below are 100% unsolicited, verbatim — from families, professionals, and participants. Source: Noise Solution Themes of Feedback (255 pieces of unsolicited feedback)
“ "Without NS, the student would have become further disengaged from learning and ultimately society. NS is absolutely brilliant! Phenomenal way to engage students in learning. Disengaged become engaged."
PROFESSIONAL — SCHOOL STAFF
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"6 years ago. My mother was told that she should accept that I would always be in a psychiatric ward. I am currently in my third year of university. Because of 10 sessions with Noise Solution, I found a voice and a purpose I didn't know I had”
PARTICIPANT - TRANSFORMATIONAL
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"She came to you 4 years ago, she was suffering from mental illness, and dealing with grief. Music was the only answer to release the anger, of the grief she was suffering when her father died. She has now just signed a record deal, if it wasn't for you and noise solution she wouldn't be the talented artist she is today "
PARENT - TRANSFORMATIONAL
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"Thank you for all of the support that you have put in place for her. They attended all of their A Level exams, and I didn't think this would have been possible earlier in the year"
PROFESSIONAL — CAMBRIDGE VIRTUAL SCHOOL
"If one of our incredible vulnerable children is not engaging with education, Noise Solution is the first port of call. Show the CYP the website and they are engaged. I can't thank NS enough for the work they do."
"Noise Solution saved my daughter's life — there's no doubt. The transformation was unbelievable, like a butterfly bursting from a chrysalis"
FAMILY MEMBER — LIFE-SAVING / CRISIS AVERTED
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“I finally found my passion and something I was good at, my mental health really started to improve. When I finished my Noise Solution sessions, I went straight to the job centre and told them I want to go back to college to study music. I’m now at Anglia Ruskin University studying Music Performance."
PARTICIPANT - PROGRESSION
FAMILY MEMBER — SCHOOL REINTEGRATION “
"Noise Solution is the most innovative and impactful programme I've seen in 20 years of youth work. The evidence is undeniable."
PROFESSIONAL — ROUND HOUSE YOUTH TEAM DEPUTY LEAD
Social Return on Investment
Report available
£12.53
Returned to society for every £1 invested in Noise
Solution
Based on 2024 delivery · Independently assessed by Costello Medical using 6 independent analysts over one year of research
WHERE
SAVINGS ACCRUE
NHS & Mental Health Services Deflected
Education Re-engagement Deflected
Justice Department Services Deflected Family Stress & Burden
Digital stories
A BETTER WAY TO COLLECT HAVE AND DEMONSTRATE OUTCOMES
Our use of digital stories improves outcomes for participants. Weekly video reflections scaffold their own sense-making around what is happening in their lives. A select group of family members and key workers can witness and contribute to each session asynchronously, meaning the participant feels seen while perceptions, conversations, and outcomes around them are meaningfully shifted.
We use AI (with opt-in consent) to automatically analyse each reflection through the lens of Self-Determination Theory. We're currently capturing around 40 hours of qualitative video data every month — with no feedback form in sight.
Everyone creates their own case study. Its sharing with trusted adults improves outcomes - while capturing qualitative data that is automatically reportable, at scale
To see a short film on this click this link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fTm2i4HD6So&t=31s
Mapping Outcomes to OFSTED
""Without NS, the student would have become further disengaged from learning and ultimately society. NS is absolutely brilliant! Phenomenal way to engage students in learning. Disengaged become engaged."
— SCHOOL SENCO 8yrs NHS-validated improvement (p<0.0001). Low wellbeing halved against national norms.
1 Pupil Well-being
2 Exclusion & Attendance
3 Quality of Education
4 Data & Improvement
5 Family & Community
88 of 225 pieces of unsolicited feedback show re-engagement with education as primary outcome. SDT-grounded pedagogy. Based on multiple PhD and Masters studies of Noise Solution’s operationalising of SDT Unique live AI-powered well-being analysis. SWEMWBS measured for every programme.
Digital story actively involves families and professionals - able to asynchronously engage with every session
