Simon Glenister

Simon’s background is a mixture of 25 years combined experience of working with young people in challenging circumstances and as an internationally touring musician, specialising in music technology. Founding Noise Solution in 2009, the organisation is a self-sustaining Social Enterprise using an innovative combination of one to one music mentoring, focussed on beat making, and a bespoke social media platform designed to engage family and professionals around participant's successful musical journey. Noise Solution has proven its statistical significance in impacting on well-being of populations that other statutory organisations often struggle to engage with. On a mission to take the 'wooly' out of arts impacts Simon is an advocate of the importance of impact capture, impact management, and the use of theory to inform practice. Simon's work in this area is underpinned by a research Masters, undertaken at Cambridge University's Faculty of Education in 2017.