Be Free YC is a children’s charity supporting young carers aged 8 to 24 living in southern Oxfordshire, England.
Young carers are children who provide regular or on-going care and emotional support to a family member who is physically or mentally ill, disabled or who misuses substances.
Be Free YC provides practical, educational, emotional and social support that helps young carers cope with the challenges and demands caring has on their lives.
“Music and the arts in general, can be extremely therapeutic when people are feeling stressed and anxious and we often hear from young carers that they use music as an escape when things become difficult to cope with at home".
“Not only was recording this album a wonderful, maybe once in a lifetime experience for these children but it also gave the young carers a voice, something that seldom happens".
credits
released December 3, 2018
1. The Twelve Days of Caring – a Young Carer’s Christmas
Written and performed by: Ella Baker, Jennie Beard, Abbie Brant-Exell, Amelia Crook, Kyliemay Iles, Sharmaine Iles, Hannah Preston and Emily Tinson.
2. Away in a Manger
Performed by: Enya Buckingham, Casey Cole, Charlie Cole, Brendan England, Lucy England Iestyn Keymer, William Sampaio-Egginton and Jax Tobin.
3. We Wish You a Merry Christmas
Performed by: Callum Ball, Tauni Bennett, Kacey Brown, Lexi Hapgood, Sophie Presley, Yaapoa Seidu and Ayaan Vivian.
4. O’ Little Town of Bethlehem
Performed by: Kacey Brown, Tauni Bennett, Sophie Presley and Ayaan Vivian.
5. Jingle Bells
Performed by: Callum Ball, Tauni Bennett, Kacey Brown, Enya Buckingham, Casey Cole, Charlie Cole, Brendan England, Lucy England, Lexi Hapgood, Iestyn Keymer, Sophie Presley, William Sampaio-Egginton, Yaapoa Seidu, Jax Tobin, and Ayaan Vivian.
Recorded and produced by Kingsley Pratt Boyden at In-Spire Sounds, Oxford.
CD Cover designed by Yaapoa Seidu aged 9.
CD Artwork designed by Malcolm Buckland of Design Eleven.
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