We believe many children in Surrey are unable to experience the joy of making music because of financial disadvantage. Here’s why we need YOUR support to change that.
We all know the joy that listening to and making music brings us all.
It's particularly important for young people.
Music tuition from a young age improves their literacy, problem-solving skills, confidence, resilience and creativity.
Music is even more important given the pressures all young people face today
With education policy focusing on ‘non-creative’ subjects, many schools are struggling to resist the pressure to sacrifice music for other priorities. Having access to quality music tuition has become a “school lottery" with a growing disparity between state and independent schools.
Not all parents can afford to pay for music lessons. More than 40 per cent of low-income families report that music lessons are beyond their budget
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.
Surrey is a relatively affluent area of the UK. However there are areas of deprivation even here with 3 Surrey boroughs featuring in the second most deprived category of areas in a nationwide survey and 8 others in the third most deprived category
The disparity between the musical opportunities of rich and poor is probably greater in Surrey than anywhere else in the country
There remain many schools in the county where there are no qualified music teachers or insufficient funds to support music provision.
No young person should be precluded from taking music lessons because either their parents cannot afford them or they are not inspired to take up lessons.
We help fund music lessons for financially disadvantaged children and young people in Surrey whatever their level of musical development and try to level the music playing field by funding inspirational performances to encourage children to take up instruments in schools where historically take up has been low.
We are a registered charity staffed by volunteers and no overheads. 100% of funding goes to help or inspire children and young people to make music. CKT does not duplicate what others can do but funds local and national organisations with deep expertise in teaching and inspiring children and young people to make music.
At present we are only able to help a limited number of children in a limited number of schools most of which are supported by Surrey Arts. That works needs ongoing funding .
With your help, we could inspire many more children across the county to make music in the future
And we could arrange more performances in more schools support (including those not served by Surrey Arts ) to inspire children to want to take up lessons and provide the financial support that will enable them to start and continue to experience the joy of making music
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