City of London Sinfonia has a world-class concert series and works with exciting composers and cross-disciplinary creatives on our outstanding productions. Behind closed doors, our community project work is a central part of CLS which feeds into the creative process of everything we do.
In our flagship community project schemes Sound Young Minds and Room to Room Music, our musicians work collaboratively with young people in psychiatric hospital schools and vulnerable people in residential and dementia care homes. These projects have a profound impact on participants and musicians alike and create positive change in an often challenging world.
The musicians and facilitators who deliver this work, and the charity leaders and medical professionals who witness it, can attest to its deep impact.
‘Music is a language where everyone can know where they are.’
—Care home resident
‘The ability to reach beyond through music creation is a massive and treasured gift that CLS bring. The progression of the whole project over time is magnificent: It unfolds and develops continually. Long may it continue.’
—Staff at the Maudsley and Bethlem Hospital School
CLS could not do what we do without the generosity of people like you.
With your support, we are able to develop new and challenging productions for the concert hall and beyond, continue our vital community projects, reach new people, and forge new partnerships. If you love what we do, you can get involved, see commissions go from an idea to the stage, and know that you are supporting genuinely life-changing work offstage by making a donation or joining one of our giving circles.
One donation reaches thousands of people
£50 could
- purchase a set of handheld percussion for our music-making sessions in hospitals.
- sponsor a seat for local community members to experience their first classical concert.
£500 could
- pay for trauma awareness training for our artists working with vulnerable people.
- provide a pre-performance rehearsal space for our artists and musicians.
£1,000 could
- cover two creative music-making sessions with refugees and Holocaust survivors.
- help towards bold and creative programming.
£5,000+ could
- support a commission of new work for the stage.
- cover a research and development session with musicians and artists to develop a new production.
- fund a six-session creative music-making project with young people in psychiatric hospital care.
Ways to support
Make a one-off or regular donation
Become a supporter
Join the Hickox Circle to support the development of new work
Join the Hickox Circle
Support music making in community and healthcare settings
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Make a transformational gift as a member of our 1971 Ensemble
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