Sunbeams Community Music Therapy
Founded by Cumbrian born Harpist and Singer, Annie Mawson MBE in 1992, Sunbeams provides Community Music Therapy to children and adults with a wide range of disabilities and complex medical needs including physical disabilities and severe mental health problems, sensory impairments, emotional and behavioural disturbance and profound multiple disabilities.
The Charity provides two Sunbeams Programmes: Sunbeams Music For Life® and Music For Dignity®. The Programmes are tailored to use Music for therapeutic and educational benefit and aim to improve quality of life through the power and creative freedom of Music. Our Delivery Team are trained Professional Musicians with specific therapeutic training in our Programmes. We deliver to groups here at the bespoke Sunbeams Music Centre, just outside of Penrith, in Outreach Venues across Cumbria and online using Zoom.
Our Programmes promote inclusivity and equality regardless of age, health conditions, disability…At Sunbeams, we focus on the ABILITY and not the disability.
By tackling the serious challenges raised by social exclusion, deprivation, ill-health and inequality, Sunbeams is ‘reaching the unreachables’.
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Fundraising & Events:
Sunbeams September Stroll
The Wolfson Meeting Room
Accommodates up to 18 delegates in all-day comfort chairs around a large board room style table.
Modern, light and airy room offering spectacular views.
Built in LCD projector and remote controlled screen. Fully inclusive and accessible facilities.
The Glassical Hall
Named after Sunbeams Musical Patron Philip Glass, the Glassical Hall offers an acoustically neutral space housing the relationship between Architecture and Music. A multipurpose space which accommodates up to 100 delegates.
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Sunbeams September Stroll Sponsored by Dodd & Co
What better than an afternoon of walking one of the most beautiful accessible routes at Keswick together with family and friends (Four legged friends are also very welcome). Please Join Annie Mawson's Sunbeams Music Trust - Sunbeams for our very First SEPTEMBER STROLL...
Transforming Lives Through Music at KC25!
‘Transforming Lives Through Music at KC25!’ The Annie Mawson’s Sunbeams Music Trust in the Fields at Kendal Calling 2025, written by Julie Blundell, Head of Income Generation and Marketing on behalf of the Annie Mawson’s Sunbeams Music Trust Thank you to Andy, Ben...
Steaming MUGS Cruise raises £3,236.00 for Sunbeams and ELM!
A HUGE THANK YOU TO all our friends at MUGS, The Rhubarb Thieves, our supporters, volunteers, all the local businesses who supported this fabulous Event! At Sunbeams, we are so grateful for all your generosity, time and efforts into making this such an enjoyable and...
A Special Thanks to Our Funders
