Music in the Community supports and enhances:
Opportunities
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Opportunities for individuals recognise, develop and use their talents, skills and abilities to enhance their employability and develop individual and collective skills in music creation, performance, production, arrangement, engineering, management and promotions
A bridge
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Bridging networks bringing people from different groups together. Research suggests that they can reduce crime and unemployment and, by enhancing community voices, improve the quality of government.
Equality
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Equality of opportunity, maintaining social cohesion, building social capital and minimising social exclusion for culturally and linguistically diverse Edinburgh-based people.
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Education
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Sense of belonging
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Helps address discrimination, hate crime, red card against racism
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Health and Wellbeing improvements
Skills
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Skills for work
Volunteering
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Volunteering opportunities in the community