ABOUT
We offer a range of programmes and workshops in a variety of sectors, including rehabilitation, education, special educational needs and disabilities, business, specific health conditions and the community. It is the mission of Vocal Connection CIC to bring joy and a deeper understanding of music to all its clients and contribute to individuals’ health and wellbeing through singing.
Vocal Connections is directed by two facilitators, Claire Fowler and Ruby Swift.
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Claire Fowler has been a qualified Probation Officer since 2003, working for the National Probation Service until 2016. She has a huge amount of experience of working in a motivational manner with offenders and identifying positive rehabilitative benefits for individuals. Claire is a qualified vocal coach, with experience of leading singing sessions in both prison and Probation Service settings. She currently teaches singing in schools, leads a Singing for Parkinson's group for Parkinson's UK and also runs two successful Community Choirs.
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Ruby Swift (MA) is extremely passionate about singing and singing for health, having taught music in many forms, led choirs and provided singing lessons and workshops to clients of a diverse age range for many years. Ruby delivers workshops and ongoing singing groups across the community, uniting people in song. Ruby is a Natural Voice Practitioner, a trained Singing for the Brain Leader with the Alzheimer’s Society, a trained Singing for Lung Health Leader (British Lung Foundation), has experience of leading singing sessions in both prison and Probation Service settings and is currently completing a doctorate researching music and dementia.
