DHA provides media and evaluation support to Elevate, a community-based music programme, which is capturing learning about how to support young musicians. Elevate is a £100,000 project operating in 10 areas of the UK . It receives funding from ABRSM and four royal schools of music. To date, we have secured initial national media coverage as well as articles in …
Strengthening capacity to promote healthy soil
DHA worked with the Sustainable Soils Alliance to strengthen its communications capacity. The Alliance, a membership-based organization, promotes healthy soil as a critical element of tackling the climate crisis. We developed a series of specially designed remote tutorials and hands-on support for the small team of staff to build communications capacity and confidence, ultimately helping the team secure national coverage …
Making the case for investment in music learning
DHA developed and launched a national music commission to explore the key issues and arguments and help make the case for government investment in music learning. The commission, featuring Sir Nicholas Kenyon, Nitin Sawhney, Suzy Klein and others, gathered evidence over 18 months and DHA then drafted the findings into a compelling final report, Retuning Our Ambitions for Music Learning. …
Telling a different story of social disadvantage
Lankelly Chase commissioned us to design and deliver landmark national research to help the charity sector understand and influence the way in which the media covers social disadvantage and how to tell a different story. Using a mixed methods approach, we conducted quantitative analysis of more than 8,000 media articles referencing social disadvantage and using discourse analysis to identify prevailing …




