We're still collecting donations
On the 28th March 2023 we'd raised £7,356 with 18 supporters in 28 days. But as every pound matters, we're continuing to collect donations from supporters.
Wellbeing Through Music
by City of London Sinfonia in London, Greater London, United Kingdom
Total raised £7,366
raised so far+ est. £506.50
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supportersUsing high-quality live music from our concert series as a creative stimulus, CLS brings creative music-making to groups across London
by City of London Sinfonia in London, Greater London, United Kingdom
Your donation will help us to work with more than 2,000 people across nine creative music-making projects in 2023, bringing music to hospitals and hospital schools, family centres, hospices, community venues, and care homes.
MUSIC IS VITAL FOR WELLBEING
Music can stimulate our body's natural feel-good chemicals. It can help energise us, or allow us to escape our worries, work through problems, process our feelings, and connect with ourselves and others.
CLS's 'Wellbeing Through Music' programme runs alongside our concert series, using repertoire from the concerts as a creative stimulus. Our musicians work with different groups across London and Cambridge to provide a vital creative outlet to increase wellbeing, bring communities together, and reduce the effects of isolation.
Your help will enable us to:
- help develop relationships between young people and healthcare staff or care home residents and their carers, through shared experience of creating and experiencing music together
- increase the confidence, self-esteem and social skills of participants through listening, collaboration, and communication
- provide a respite and decrease isolation among the hard-to-reach in our community, who may not otherwise be able to access high-quality live music or make music themselves
WE NEED YOUR HELP
Like many charities, we have been impacted by the decline in public, local, and business investment and funding over the last few years, and the cost of living crisis is only making things harder - not just for us, but for the participants we work with. Your help will enable us to continue delivering creative music-making sessions to people who might not otherwise have access to these activities.
Watch our musicians in action
Rewards
This project offered rewards
£50 or more
£50 Reward
could go towards one session in a children's hospital, which provides a well-needed respite from the stresses of the treatments the young people are going through by exploring and making original music with them
£20 or more
£20 Reward
could contribute toward giving one St Christopher's Hospice patient the opportunity to express themselves by participating in one of our creative group music making sessions
£150 or more
£150 Reward
could contribute towards music sessions at family centres in areas of multiple deprivation, where we join families to help them connect, learn, play and communicate through making music together
£500 or more
£500 Reward
could allow a young person in a psychiatric hospital to participate in a creative music-making project, developing their self-confidence
£1,000 or more
£1,000 Reward
could provide an opportunity for 20 people living with brain injury to experience live music up close and create original music as a group in the familiar surroundings of their local Day Centre