REG’s structured national curriculum linked hand drumming and percussion skills course aims to teach participants the techniques required to replicate the Heartbeat Hand Drumming Programme in schools, colleges and leisure centres.

REG are a values based group with the ambition to be a successful organisation, encouraging wider participation in the playing of hand drums. They recognise their responsibility towards participants, staff and communities by delivering socially inclusive activities that promote healthy living.

Hand drumming activity requires people to develop a range of mental and physical skills that are transferable to other aspects of learning: following audio instructions, demanding the concentration to repeat rhythms in performing group and solo parts, exploring a safe emotional outlet enacting ‘conversations’ through using the drum beat.

It is a therapeutic exercise that helps develop generic employability and life skills, essential and transferable to a variety of situations and necessary for an individual to function in the 21st century workplace.

REG targets unemployed and economically inactive individuals from BAME groups, including white minority ethnic groups, although other unemployed people are eligible.

REG believe that there is a place for hand drumming within the national curriculum seeing the positive impact it has had on young participants and their development of social skills.

It is possible to see this programme developing substantially as we approach the Olympics of 2012 – the job marketplace demanding: flexibility, initiative and the ability to listen and engage in a pro-active fashion.