DONATE OLD CDs & MUSIC PLAYERS IN BRIGG TO SUPPORT NEW PROJECT

People in the Brigg area are being asked to donate unwanted CDs and music players to help a new project.
North Lincolnshire Council has set up Music Counts for people with physical and cognitive impairments and is now seeking donations.
Take your unwanted items to the Community Well-Being Hub on Horstead Avenue (Springbank housing estate).
The postcode location is DN20 8PX. Call 01652 653384. Opening hours are Monday to Thursday, 9am to 5pm, and Friday from 9am to 4.30pm.
The Music Counts project will help to promote health and wellbeing in adults through personalised playlists. It is all about bringing joy into the lives of people living with a range of physical and cognitive impairments.
The project was set-up to support people in long-term and short-term care facilities to create personalised playlists that will help stimulate the brain and bring back memories.
It will enable adults to live well for longer and allow maximum independence, motivation and interaction.
Evidence suggests that by listening to personal music it enables you to reconnect to auto-biographical memories. Listening to personal music helps to recall moments in our lives and creates that sense again of who you are.
There are many benefits of the project for those people taking part including:

• A decline in anxiety and depression
• Speech reconstruction
• Increased interaction resulting in a decrease of isolation
• Creating a heightened sense of identity
• Connect with present and past triggering memories and the familiarity associated with such memories
• Co-ordinated motor movements
• Connection between care givers and those taking part

To help deliver this project, the council is looking for unwanted CDs and music players, such as iPods and MP3 players.
A pilot scheme of Music Counts has been carried out at Sir John Mason House, Winterton, and Cumberworth Lodge, Haxey.
Music Counts is part of Words Count project that aims to improve levels of literacy for all children and families. This forms part of the council’s health and wellbeing priorities for North Lincolnshire communities.

Coun Carl Sherwood, from Brigg, Cabinet Member for Health and Wellbeing (pictured), said: “The Music Counts project aims to help people living with physical or cognitive impairments to improve their health and wellbeing. It has been found that by creating a personal playlist it relates to the individual and can trigger past memories or stimulate their brain.

“We carried out a pilot project at Sir John Mason House and Cumberworth Lodge, which was very successful. People at these care facilities got involved in the project and saw improvements. To be able to deliver this project wider across North Lincolnshire, we are asking people to donate unwanted CDs or music players. You can donate these items at any of the Community Wellbeing Hubs in North Lincolnshire.”
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