Singing Medicine

For the last 15 years Ex Cathedra a charity about singing, through its pioneering Singing Medicine projects bring wellbeing through singing to children and adults, both in hospital and at home. These projects helped combat isolation, as well as supporting the improvement of the mental health and well-being of hospitalized children, but once the pandemic ensued the usual weekly visits stopped. In an extraordinary piece of timing, UK leading choir Ex Cathedra was working with Singing Medicine patients and Birmingham Children’s Hospital Chaplaincy team before anyone had heard of coronavirus, to create what is thought to be the world’s first hospital-wide children and young people’s virtual patient choir, called the Lifting Spirits Choir. They are making interactive singing-play films for children and young people, over 130 Singing Medicine interactive films are available, free to access on YouTube, for the patients, and for all young children and families everywhere.