This week’s Friday Feature highlights Play for Progress, a charity delivering therapeutic music and arts programmes, advocacy and wellbeing support for traumatised and socially isolated young refugees and asylum seekers.
Working from their base in Croydon, Play for Progress creates a close-knit and supportive community where young people can grow, heal and build a sense of belonging through music, creativity and shared experiences. Through trauma-informed programmes and consistent relationships, they provide safe spaces where young people feel supported, connected and able to express themselves.
With support from the Kerslake Robshaw Foundation, their Thursday music sessions bring young people together to explore, create and perform music in a way that transcends language and cultural barriers. For many, the sessions become not only a creative outlet, but a place of trust, friendship and hope.
“I used to have very bad trauma before I come, but now when I become a musician, I am a new guy.”
At the Kerslake Robshaw Foundation, we’re proud to support organisations using music and sport to help young people feel connected, confident and able to thrive.
