A big thank you to North Curry Community Coffee Shop for sending a donation of £170. This brings their total contributions to Jessie’s Fund to over £1500. The Coffee Shop is a community project run by volunteers. They lease part of a restored farm stable near the centre of North...
Children’s Hospice South West (CHSW) has brought out a CD to celebrate their 25th anniversary. Jessie’s Fund is pleased to have supported music therapy at all three children’s hospices run by CHSW. The 30 track CD illustrates the many ways that music therapy can be used to offer children and...
C is a little boy of about 7 who is severely affected by cerebral palsy. Jessie’s Fund has been working in his school for a day every fortnight this term, not only working with the children themselves, but also helping the music coordinator to increase her skills. C can’t communicate...
There has been an outpouring of grief and respect for Victoria Wood, who died on 20th April at just 62. On Saturday 4 June Victoria Station, in Manchester, became Victoria Wood Station for an hour. Actress Sue Devaney, who worked with Victoria, was the brilliant presenter at the event organised...
Soundtracks, our well-established programme of creative music projects in special schools, offers one day ‘taster’ workshops. These enable schools to have a simple, affordable way in which children and staff can take part in making music, and there will follow an opportunity to book one of our standard five day...
We have been very fortunate recipients of a grant from Global’s Make Some Noise (GMSN). GMSN was created by Global, the media & entertainment group. As well as Classic FM, Global is home to radio brands Capital, Capital Xtra, Heart, Radio X, LBC, Smooth, Smooth Extra and Gold. As well...
Tamarisk Parents’ Choir is run by and made up of parents of young children in the Burton-on-Trent area. The children play while the parents sing. Tamarisk have been supporting us since 2012, and have now raised £2,633 for us. Find out more about the choir...
Musical Bumps provides fun music classes for children and has been making donations to Jessie’s Fund since 2008. They have now donated over £10,000! Thank you to all the generous families, and to the musicians: you’ve done an amazing fundraising job. Find out more about Musical Bumps...
Our 2017 sponsored bike ride takes place from Saturday 27 May to Wednesday 31 May, over spring bank holiday and, for most schools, the half-term break. We’re calling this ride ‘Something old, something new‘: on our very first Jessie’s Fund ride, back in 2007, we set off from York, cycled...
