World Heart Beat has launched its 2025 Christmas ‘Give the Gift of Music’ campaign, inviting supporters to choose meaningful gifts that directly benefit young people who might otherwise miss out on music education and creative opportunities.
The campaign is designed for anyone seeking a thoughtful present for someone who has everything, offering a range of contributions that support World Heart Beat’s work with children and young people across London. Each donation level comes with a personalised gift certificate for supporters to share with their chosen recipient.
£25 – Fuel for young performers
Provides pizza or other much-needed sustenance for young musicians taking part in evening and weekend performances at WHB and around London.
£50 – Instrument care and essentials
Supports vital costs such as instrument repairs, strings, reeds, valve oil and sheet music, ensuring every child can play with confidence.
£100 – Inspiring performers for Schools’ Concerts
Supports our interactive First Beats concerts for primary schools offering many disadvantaged children their very first chance to experience live music performed by our talented emerging musicians.
£250 – A Community Café Concert
Funds one of our warm, welcoming Community Café Concerts, giving young musicians the chance to perform in a relaxed environment surrounded by family, friends and community.
£500 – A year in a WHB band or ensemble
Gives a young person the chance to play in one of our bands or ensembles for a whole year, building skills, confidence and a strong sense of belonging.
£1,200 – A year of lessons
Every child deserves the chance to feel the joy and confidence that music brings. Yet for many families, lessons are simply unaffordable. Your gift of £1,200 provides a year of free music tuition for a child.
More than half of the young people enrolled at World Heart Beat rely on free or subsidised tuition, and many come from families experiencing significant financial hardship. Funds raised through the Christmas campaign help ensure that no child is turned away, regardless of their circumstances.
The charity hopes the initiative will inspire supporters to choose gifts that create lasting impact, while raising awareness of the role music can play in building confidence, wellbeing and community among young people.
Thank you to Nikki Marsh, a supporter and Joy member who recently nominated Sahana Gero, World Heart Beat’s Founder for the Cultural Champion award at the Wandsworth Civic Awards 2025 – which she WON! Here she explains the need to fund our vital work with young people.
Access to the arts is so important, and it is brilliant that half of World Heart Beat’s young people are on bursaries, so it’s not only well-off families that can take part in music. We have loved coming to concerts and events to see the talented students perform and to learn more about World Heart Beat over the last couple of years.
We have a sense of how much work is involved in keeping World Heart Beat going and managing to raise all the funds that are needed. Congratulations to Sahana on winning this award, and thank you and all your team for everything you continue to do.