The Preston-based Bridge Centre and Grange Park Gardens provide support to people with varying degrees of mental ill health, helping them to become fully integrated into mainstream society.

Alongside The Bridge Centre I have been leading (with my colleague and fellow percussionist Mike Lambert) a weekly music session.  This is extremely rewarding work, initially we started as a percussion workshop but after a couple of weeks I picked up the guitar and now we have a few songs that we all sing together.  The last session we performed Hallelujah by Leonard Cohen (made famous by Jeff Buckley).

There are five sessions left, and we are going to finish with a recording session, giving CDs to everyone who attends the session.  Hopefully we will run this or a similar session in the future.