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..

Upcoming concerts in aid of the Cheryl King Trust

Egham Choral Brahms’ German Requiem (sung in German) - St John’s Church, Egham - 27th April 2024

Czech National Symphony Orchestra Bruch’s Violin Concerto – G live - 17th May 2024

Waverley Singers Summer Concert – 22 June 2024 – St Andrews Church Farnham

Awards for Young Musicians recently welcomed more young people to our Awards Programme and I’m pleased to say we offered The Cheryl King Award to two young musicians from Surrey.

Caleb, 12, piano
&
Zachary, 11, violin

2 Mar 2024

CKT are the G Live Charity partner

We are delighted that the Cheryl King Trust has been chosen as the G Live Charity partner for the 2023/24 International Concert Series showcasing the best in classical music from around the world. To find out more about these fantastic concerts visit https://trafalgartickets.com/g-live-guildford/en-GB/guildford-international-concert-series-2023-24

20 Oct 23

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

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.

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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