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Brass on the Mind goes free…

After a year of publishing the magazine ‘Brass on the Mind’, Mode for… director Tabby Kerwin and team have made the decision to make wellbeing and mental health content even more accessible to musicians in the brass band movement.

Based on the ethos of “doing what we love and loving what we do” Mode for… has always been a business for benefit, wanting to help and support as many people as possible through all its brands and as such, in 2022 ‘Brass on the Mind’ has moved from being a paid magazine to a free blog.

Content will be regularly added to the blog, all designed to support the wellbeing of brass band musicians, plus there will be more activity in the Facebook group, new seasons of the Podcast and Mode for… is working hard to create more free mental health and suicide prevention training opportunities for people in brass bands.

It is so important that we prioritise wellness and mental health in the brass band movement as by looking after the people we strengthen the movement as a whole. It has been great publishing the magazine, but the reality is we are never scared of mixing things up at Mode for… and having great content and contributors is amazing, but that content needs to be accessible to everyone to be effective.

I’m passionate about supporting wellness and mental health in the brass band movement as we have an opportunity to impact people’s lives in a positive way across many generations through music and camaraderie. By making Brass on the Mind completely transparent and accessible, Mode for… can really play its role in helping people and that feels so right and attuned to our ethos of “doing what we love and loving what we do”.

Check out the new blog over at www.modefor.co.uk

Much Love

Tabby x

Notable dates

There isn’t a week that goes by without there being a day to celebrate or acknowledge different things, whether it’s national rubber ducky day (we totally acknowledged that), sticky toffee pudding day, national pets week or teacher appreciation week.

We’ve become a nation that celebrates people and things by dedicating a day, week or even a month to things.

I’ve always had a thing about days such as Valentine’s Day, Mother’s Day and Father’s Day because they have developed into such commercialised commodities they hardly feel special… besides which, if you’re a mum or dad, you are that every day and you should be celebrated every day… seriously, celebrate yourself now – it’s a tough gig!

Anyhow, whilst we shouldn’t always need a day in the diary to celebrate some things, certain days do bring an awareness of events and causes that need their profile raising or need to be acknowledged in order to make people stop, step back, learn and implement things to make their, and other people’s, lives happier and healthier.

There’s now a plethora of dates dedicated to acknowledging areas of wellness, mental health and suicide prevention week and I will always advocate for those as there is still so much work to do in raising awareness around these subjects and, to be quite frank, when we raise awareness and do better around the subjects of mental health and suicide, we save lives.

Here at Mode for… we’ve collated a few dates you might want to pop in your diary and acknowledge privately, at work, at school or in your community organisations. Use these dates as prompts to learn a little more, use your creativity and help support yourself and others.

Want to know a little more? Then don’t hesitate to get in touch.

Much love

Tabby x

The Mode for… Notebook

Mode for… is a diverse portfolio business created in 2008 by husband and wife team Tabby and Simon Kerwin.

Since Simon’s death in 2018, Tabby has continued to develop Mode for… based on its original ethose of “doing what we love and loving what we do” and today it is the place where experience, performance and wellness meet through creativity and learning.

A diverse portfolio of six areas of business focussing on brass bands to weddings, publishing to Italian events and experiences and performance wellness coaching to training in mental health and suicide prevention.

Mode for… continues to develop organically in an exciting and diverse way with Tabby and her team being their for the needs of their clients and colleages.

Keep up to date with all that goes on and join the Mode for… story through our blog, The Mode for…Notebook