Sense Awards 2025: Media Moment of the Year
Electric Umbrella getting a golden buzzer on Britain’s Got Talent
You voted for your favourite media moment of the year, and you chose Electric Umbrella getting a golden buzzer on Britain’s Got Talent!
Electric Umbrella empower learning disabled and neurodivergent people through musical performances which demonstrate the power of inclusivity and celebrate disabled people.
Their performance of their original song ‘Acceptance’ on Britain’s Got Talent earned them a Golden Buzzer and touched people’s hearts around the country. The moment made headlines and racked up millions of views on social media, spreading Electric Umbrella’s message far and wide.
Descriptive transcript of the Electric Umbrella's video
Tom, the Artistic Director of The Electric Umbrella, sits in a room, surrounded by musical instruments. Tom is wearing a black hoodie and glasses.
Tom: Hello, I’m Tom and I am the artistic director and co-founder of Electric Umbrella.
We would like to say a massive and huge and heartfelt thank you to everybody who voted for us to receive the Sense Award for media moment of the year.
We’re really pleased that we could be able to bring disability issues to the forefront in such an inspiring way.
Of course, this allows us to continue and to create environments and opportunities to give our community of learning disabled musicians and performers the exposure they deserve.
For us, this is about normalising the presence and recognising the potential of disabled and neurodivergent people in all aspects of society.
So we’d like to say thank you and we’ve done it in the only way we know how, and that is to write a song about it and goes like this.
The members of the Electric Umbrella band joyfully play their instruments, sing, dance and perform routines in front of the camera. The members of the band are dressed in their signature colours of black and yellow.
The Electric Umbrella Group sing:
We went on telly just a couple of months ago!
To show inclusion and a little rock and roll!
Golden confetti fell from up above.
Now we’re here to thank and to show a little love.
Thank you! Thank you!
Thank you! Thank you!
This is music to our ears to be Media Moment of the Year!
The song ends and the musicians and performers, wave, cheer and shake pom poms in celebration.
We’re absolutely thrilled to receive the Media Moment of The Year award. To know that our Britain’s Got Talent performance made such a powerful and positive impact is enormously gratifying. A huge thank you to the Sense Awards and, most of all, everyone who voted for us.
Electric Umbrella Co-Founder and CEO Mel Boda
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