Enabling All Young People To Make Music

Our aim is that no young person in Surrey should be prevented from learning a musical instrument because their parents can’t afford it. We achieve this by providing bursaries for instrument lessons and grants for music ensembles.

Funding Lessons for All: We help fund music lessons for financially disadvantaged children and young people at all levels of musical development.

Funding Developing Musicians: We fund bursaries for talented young musicians through Awards for Young Musicians and Future Talent.

Funding Music Ensembles: We recognise how being a part of a music ensemble can greatly increase the enjoyment and commitment to persevere with a musical instrument..

A big Thank You to all our supporters who’ve raised money for us …

Onslow Village Residents Association raised £100 with a bucket collection on 14 February 2025
Chantry Singers raised £320 while singing on Guildford High Street in December 2024
Tilford Bach Society raised £1,150 at Spire Church, Farnham on the 17th December 2024
Bookham Choral Society raised £997 at St Nocholas' Church in Bookham on the 17th December 2024
Downland Chorale raised £100 at St John's Church, Coulsden on the 14th December 2024
Godalming Orchestra raised £93 at the United Church in Godalming on the 12th December 2024
Guildford Jazz raised £362 during their Christmas gig at St John's Church in Farncombe on the 6th December 2024
G Live raised £1584 on the 30th November 2024
Godalming Choral Society raised £193 on the 30th November 2024
Woking Symphony Orchestra raised £191 at St Catherine's School in Bramley on the 22nd November 2024
Onslow Village Residents Association raised £1,700 at the Onslow Village Hall on the 22nd November 2024
HHH Concert series raised £512 at St Christopher's Church in Haslemere on the 6th Nobember 2024
Guildford Chamber Choir raised £809 at their concert at Holy Trinity Chuch on the 2nd November 2024
The Natalie Williams concert at G Live raised £504 on the 5th October 2024
St Catherine's School donated £62 from an organ recital on the 4th October 2024
Charterhouse School raised £127 from a lunchtime concert on the 3rd October 2024
Guildford Jazz raised £61 in donations from a gig at Rogues Wine Bar on the 2nd October 2024
The XY Strings Community Orchestra raised £300 at their Summer Concert on the 13th July 2024
Waverley Singers raised £1124 after their Faure Requiem on 22nd June 2024, sufficient for three or four young persons' music lessons
Egham Choral raised £459 at their performance of Brahm's Requiem on 20th April 2024, enough to fund a year's bursary for a young person's music lessons
Guildford Chamber Choir raised £748 from a retiring colection after their amazing performance of Chiara Cozzolani’s Vespers at Holy Trinity church Guildford on 2nd March
Tilford Bach Society donated £1700, the entire proceedings from Dinara Klinton's 7th January 2024 concert
Guildford Jazz raised £523 at the Claire Martin Christmas Cracker concert on the 15th December 2023
St Catherine's School raised £300 at their Woodwind and Brass concert on 16th November 2023
GLive raised £1,764 at the Royal Philarmonic Orchestra concert on 10th November 2023
Guildford High School raised £146 through a collection at the end of their Autumn concert on 19th October 2023
r Guildford Music Society raised £190 at their concert on 6th October 2023
Heathfield School Music Captains Concert on 12th October 2023 raised £131
Guildford Music Society raised £300 at their concert on 12 July 2023.
Guildford Jazz raised £3,223 at their Wonder of Stevie concert in the Castle grounds on 12 July 2023.
Charterhouse School raised £160 at their concert on 16 June 2023.
Guildford Music Society raised £215 at their concert on 20 May 2023.
Hennessey-Brown Music raised £447 at their concert on 17 May 2023.
Egham Choral raised £662 at their concert on 22 April 2023.
The Vivace Chorus raised a record breaking £1,494 at their concert on 18 March 2023.
“Still Crazy” raised £680 at their gig held on 3 March 2023 at The Star pub in Guildford.
Bramley Music raised £412 at their concert on 4 February 2023.
Epsom Choral who raised an amazing £615 at their Christmas concert on 17 December 2022
Horsley Choral Society who raised £512 at their concert on 10 December 2022.
The Chantry Singers who once again sang in Guildford High Street on 6 December 2022 and raised £360.
Woking Symphony Orchestra who raised an amazing £228 at their concert on 20 November 2022.
Redhill Symphonia https://www.redhillsinfonia.org.uk/ who raised £552 at their concert on 19 November 2022.
Surrey Mozart Players raised £261 at their concert on 18 June 2022.
Guildford Music Society raised £561 at their concert on 8 June 2022.
Southern Pro Musica who raised £189.20 at their concert on 20 March 2022.
Godalming Choral who allowed us to take up a bucket collection at the end of one of their concerts, raising £280.
Guildford Choral raised £270 at their concert on 21 December 2021.
The Chantry Singers who sang in Guildford High Street on 3 December 2021 and raised £245.
Guildford Spring Music Festival has been a major financial supporter of Cheryl King Trust.
Guildford Jazz consistently raises funds to support us.

Upcoming concerts in aid of the Cheryl King Trust

How we help with bursaries and inspirational performances…

  • Ivan

    Ivan is the latest of the promising young musicians we are funding through Future Talent's Fledgling programme.

  • Noah & Rhys

    This year's AYM award has been given to Rhys aged 14 playing the guitar and to Noah aged 16 who plays the French horn. We are very much looking forward to hearing how they have got on at the end of the award year.

  • Stepan

    The trust has been supporting Stepan since September 2018. You can read his story in our blog - click here.

Why support us?

Music tuition from a young age improves young people’s literacy,  problem-solving skills, confidence, resilience and creativity. Many schools are struggling to resist the pressure to sacrifice music for other priorities. Children with families earning £48,000 or more are twice as likely to learn an instrument as those whose parents earn £28,000 or less.

CKT is a registered charity staffed by volunteers with no overheads. Therefore 100% of your donation goes to help or inspire local young people to make music. At present we are only able to help a limited number of young musicians. With your help we could help and inspire many more young people across Surrey to experience the joy of making music .  

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