Discussion, writing, recording — in schools, alternative provision, youth clubs and prisons across Sheffield.
Every session opens with a real conversation. Role models, masculinity, image, relationships, mental health, life online, gang culture. Young people work out what they think before anyone asks them to write a word.
That conversation becomes lyrics — a verse, a hook, a spoken word piece. The material is honest because the thinking came first.
Then they record it properly. Two staff, full studio kit, mixed and mastered. They leave with something they'd actually play to someone.
Plenty of organisations will run a music workshop in your school. The music isn't the intervention — the conversation is. The recording is the reason young people keep turning up. That sequence is why it works with the ones who have opted out of everything else.
Mainstream secondaries, in timetabled and pastoral slots.
Small groups, high need, longer engagement.
Community settings, informal entry, trust built before the programme starts.
Delivery in custodial settings.
Every participant completes a personal course booklet — theirs to keep, and a straightforward record of engagement for you. Every cohort produces a group EP, written and recorded by them. Graduates of our 12-week programme join the CMPOUND Alumni.
Both delivering directors work directly with young people and hold current DBS checks, Advanced Safeguarding and Prevent training, and trauma-informed training. Full safeguarding policy available on request.
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