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Mentally Healthy As Anything: Building a band at a psychosocial rehabilitation centre – Dougie D’s Small Project
A community rock band project that brought together people with lived experience of mental health challenges, staff, musicians and supporters to create something bigger than music: connection, confidence and belonging.
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Identity, Space, and the Work That Doesn’t Give Up
It’s difficult to choose the many colours. To describe the texture. To explain the tapestry we wove. The work with Dougie D was never one thing. It was never linear. It was never about scaling up, ticking boxes, or moving neatly from problem to solution. It was about creating critical space — social, emotional, cultural…
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Something Out of Nothing. A new voice rising from the heart of Nobucks
Dougie D’s Street Choir There’s a special kind of music that grows out of real life — the rough edges, the quiet heartbreak, the belly laughs, and the small victories that happen around a soup kitchen table. That’s exactly what Dougie D’s Street Choir is being built on. Doug has had this dream simmering for…