About Sangeet Foundation

Sangeet Foundation is a registered charity in the United Kingdom (Charity Reg Number: 1195762).

Our ethos is “Happiness through Music and the Arts”. Sangeet Foundation raises awareness about mental health issues and aspires to showcase the power of music and the arts as a complementary mental health therapy.

Sangeet Foundation has developed a four fold approach:
1. Hold live programmes with well known performing artistes and celebrities from across the globe.
2. Workshops and panel discussions with mental health experts.
3. Conducting research projects on mental health, creative arts, music and media, in partnership with universities like De Montford University (DMU) in Leicester, South Asia Institute of SOAS in London and others.
4. To engage and collaborate with governmental bodies like NHS trust charities and non governmental organisations across UK and India.

How it all started:

It all started as a personal journey for its founders, Nupur and Jayanta Ray, when their elder daughter was diagnosed with ADD (Adult ADHD), Clinical Anxiety, Dyspraxia, and Depression. The journey started with denial (“this doesn’t happen in our household”), gradual acceptance of the problem (“yes, I understand there is a problem. So what now?”), hesitation in reaching out (“What will people say”?) and finally reaching out for help to the medical fraternity, friends, family seeking out people who had experience with this.

Medication, meditation, counselling all helped but most importantly, music helped (drums were her thing). Discussions on this topic led to the realisation that there was a severe lack of awareness and acceptance of mental health issues and hardly any forum for those affected, to discuss this openly without stigma and learn from the experts and those who have experienced this.

Deeply in love with their music and the arts, the founders started their quest and mission to leverage music and the arts to create awareness and address mental health issues.