Welcome to Charity Cast - a behind the scenes look at the work of The Songwriting Charity with founders John Quinn and Nathan Timothy. <br /><br />Founded in 2011, the charity provides songwriting, music creation and production workshops in education and community settings all over the UK. The projects are accessible, fun, empowering experiences, boosting confidence, self esteem and wellbeing through participation.<br /><br />The Charity Casts will cover a range of subjects, developments and news from the team. Each episode they’ll dive in to the Songwriting Charity song vault and pick a track written, performed and recorded in one day during one of our workshops. John and Nathan will also be speaking to a number of very special guests, people they’ve worked with over the years, those who been involved in fundraising, trustees, friends of the charity and others!<br /><br />You can contact John or Nathan directly or find out more about the songwriting charity via the website songwritingcharity.org Their twitter @swcharity and you can also take a look at their Songwriting Charity facebook, instagram and youtube pages - just search for The Songwriting Charity.<br /><br />Don’t forget to follow, like and subscribe on each platform. We really appreciate your support.
In this episode Nathan and John chat to Jane Swarbrick - musician and choir leader from Preston about her work and passion for teaching and supporting Dementia groups in the community.
In this week's episode John and Nathan chat to John Dawson - Genius Photographer and Songwriter from Romford, Essex about his life and connections and delve into the song vault to listen to two 'Planet Sync' songs from Heycroft Primary School in Southend, UK.
In Episode 2 of Charity Cast John and Nathan talk to Richard Morris founder of The Giving Machine and The Giving Lottery and delve into the Songwriting Charity Vault with a funky song from West Grove Primary School called 'Way of Life' https://soundcloud.com/the-songwriting-charity/way-of-life-west-grove-primary
In Episode 1 of Charity Cast (April 2020) with John and Nathan, they share a little bit of background on the work of The Songwriting Charity and have a listen to a Bully Beat song from the workshop vault. They also share some initial thoughts on how Covid-19 is impacting their work and how they've had to adapt the charity's day to day operations. Link for today's song https://soundcloud.com/the-songwriting-charity/mercy-said-no-feat-cj-the-dj