The OHMI Trust’s objective is to enable children and adults with physical impairments to play the instruments they want to play, when they want to play them and where they want to play them (whether at school, in the home or in a professional ensemble).
OHMI Trust Music-Makers is a Birmingham-based charity, founded in 2011. Its primary mission is to make music making possible for people with physical disabilities. Its initials stand for One-Handed Musical Instruments, but it was felt that this defines the work too narrowly hence the rebranded name.
In 2019, in partnership with Creative United and Nottinghamshire Music Service, it launched IAMM (Inclusive Access to Music Making) to facilitate whole class ensemble teaching in schools.
Now with a £48,137 Arts Council England funding the whole class programme will be extended to schools through music services in Derbyshire, Staffordshire and Hounslow as well as Bradford, Lincolnshire, Central Bedfordshire, Liverpool and Southampton.
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