Zizi45, who is 7 years old, watched her dad Criztoz, DJ, using 7 inch vinyl records – also known as 45s – at home and on live streams. As she loves music she wanted to try DJ’ing and really enjoyed it and spending quality time with her Dad. She now...
Booking is now open for our popular two-day Making Music with Special Children courses: we’ll be in London on 11th and 12th November, and in York on 14th and 15th November 2019. For more details about the course, and a booking form, click here. Here’s a taste of what people...
Hear this extraordinary, iconic work by Olivier Messiaen in an early evening concert in north London on Sunday 29th September. The Quatuor pour la Fin du Temps was composed in a German prisoner-of-war camp and first performed there in January 1941 by Messiaen himself, with three fellow prisoners. The concert...
What a transformation musical interaction can bring about in a short time: after a recent project, one of our musicians reported back to us: ‘We worked with a girl who had some challenging behaviour. When she arrived, she was obviously unsettled with the new situation, new faces. She has also...
Jessie’s Fund is very pleased to be supported by the Postlethwaite Music Foundation: having awarded us a grant of £1,000 in 2017, the Foundation has now pledged £1,000 for each of three years in support of our programme helping individual children to access music therapy. The Postlethwaite Music Foundation gives...
Most of us shop online nowadays: we can support Jessie’s Fund without spending a penny extra. By signing up to either Easyfundraising or Give as you Live and then going to your online store via their websites, you raise commission for Jessie’s Fund each time you shop. As an example, by going...
Our friends at Musical Bumps, Croydon, are supporting Jessie’s Fund again this Christmas, with their Christmas party. Maree Waller and the families in Croydon have raised over £3,000 for us so far, contributing to over £12,000 raised by the Musical Bumps organisation as a whole over the past 10 years....
We are delighted to have been chosen by Ann Acaster, the President of the Association of Inner Wheel Clubs in Great Britain and Ireland 2018-19, as the Association President’s Charity of the Year, and we look forward to working in partnership with her. Inner Wheel is an International women’s organisation founded...
Are you one of the millions of people who enjoys the convenience of shopping online? Did you know that every time you do so you could be contributing a bit to Jessie’s Fund at no extra cost? When you want to shop at Amazon, go instead to AmazonSmile and log...
Would you like one of our folding, cardboard collection boxes? They’re ideal to have in the home for emptying pockets of change into, or maybe even as a swear box! You could use them for small scale events such as celebrations or cake sales, though they’re not robust or secure...
