We are launching this appeal for funding as we have endevoured to raise funds for premises costs but have not reached target required, without this we cannot go on. we are grateful for anything you can donate to help us achieve our target.

What is the Re:Tune Project?

With the thanks

The Re:Tune Project is a unique small Project operating in Glasgow’s East End. we are unique in that we are work with our main target groups are be ex-service personnel, retirees suffering from loneliness, and certain criminal justice wards seeking to develop their work capable skills and subsequent reintegration into mainstream society. Our specific aim is to aid personal development towards regaining control and confidence in their own lives towards further education and successful employment with specific learning outcomes and personal development plans for each individuals.

What do we do?

The Re-Tune Project has made a big impact during its short one and half year existence. Built on the “men-shed” principle, Re-tune has created a fully-equipped, fine woodworking workshop. Like any good shed it is filled with tools, benches, vices and half-finished items: those being dismantled alongside those being built. The environment is calm, the atmosphere is creative we deliver fine woodworking courses for 36 peiople over the year , (men and women) as a form of therapy for isolation, loneliness, social disengagement and disadvantage. It does this by providing a purpose, human contact, the acquisition of new skills and building confidence so relationships improve and life chances increase.

The Re:Tune Project provide these particular target groups with skills and knowledge that will enhance their employability skills and also equip them with the ability to cope with day to day life in their families, workplace and in the community. We do this through teaching the skill of fine woodworking to produce and repair wooden stringed instruments and teaching them how to play an instrument. Here at Re:Tune we Collect through donations of Old Unused ,Broken Stringed instruments and Equipment as well as old woodworking tools, to carry out the making and repairs of these instruments, Equipment and Tools. The learning experience is based on all aspects of participation involvement, to offer access and participation of traditional skills (woodworking musical instrument education) as an alternative to Isolation, Despair, alcohol /substance use and loneliness.