Strategy context

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 Solution some 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, di erences 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!

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Con dentiality, sensitivity and inclusivity.

Why have you turned up for us?

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Noise Solution context

14 years and 345,000 emails later, after an idea sat 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 di erence & have fun

Important organisational growth points 2011

2016

2020

2023

£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

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More recent growth Geography 2018

2019

2020

Su olk Norfolk

Su olk Norfolk Cambridgeshire

Su olk Norfolk Cambridgeshire Essex

2021 Su olk Norfolk Cambridgeshire Essex

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People

CEO Ops Director

CEO Ops Director Senior Musician Senior Musician

CEO Ops Director Senior Musician Senior Musician Finance

2018

2019

2020

CEO Ops Director Senior Musician Senior Musician Finance

2021

2022 Su olk Norfolk Cambridgeshire Essex Hertfordshire

CEO Ops Director Project Manager Senior Musician Senior Musician Finance

2022

People and £’s

Participant referrals by calendar year (last 5 years)

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Income Expenditure Net 0 2018

2019

2020

2021

2022

2023

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

Why does it work?

Autonomy supportive mentoring and relationship building with their musician

Autonomy

Relatedness

Supportive digital communities - enabling participants to feel ‘seen’

Competence

Feelings of competence - through quick wins and becoming their own expert - at something perceived to be complicated making music

what do people actually get

๏ Referral, web based (secure) ๏ We assign a professional musician

Online secure Referral

Musician Assigned

20 hours: Home and studio sessions 1

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Intro video email automation etc

๏ Over 20 hours (either in-person or

Musician organises when and where

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highlights to their ‘MyStream’ feed (a private and secure online space) and invite friends/keyworkers and family to leave their feedback.

Participants

Family/Carers

Well-being data captured within ‘MyStream’ wk 1 and wk 10

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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

Weekly posts

‘MyStream’ cloud platform for sharing to family and keyworkers, participants music and rich video re ections on their weekly experience

who posts intro video, triggering email automation onboarding and then organises when and where sessions happen

Professionals

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.

Current work and footprint Sta 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

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Awards

Headline stats Using music as a vehicle to increase well-being we’ve achieved the following: Estimated to be saving families and local authorities a Million pounds a year

Read case studies here

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…

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%

Mental 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 NEET age 16 to 17 by local authority 2021/22 Academic year (DfE) Link here

Intent and challenge(s) for the day

Vision for 2028

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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 Process

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 a ects a group of people we want their voice to contribute.

• Equality, diversity and inclusion will be at the heart of our work.

• We will only use ethical funding sources, and will carry out due diligence to verify this.

• We won’t cut nancial 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!

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• 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 sta unless this isn’t possible.

Q&A

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