![]() It’s ready to go, but we can’t do it all. ![]() ![]() Lloyd Webber said: “We calculated that … it would only cost £300m to implement this scheme across all schools. The Andrew Lloyd Webber Foundation has donated £3.4m to the main Misst programme and a further £100,000 to other activities. Its education programme costs about £200 a year for each child. The trust wants to develop the programmes beyond London, having so far reached Warwickshire, Oldham and Middlesbrough. However, the trust is crying out for funds, with a waiting list of more than 30,000 children. It provides 8,030 students with regular tuition and instruments through programmes that would otherwise not be available to them. Misst was founded in 2013, after years of development at Highbury Grove school in Islington, north London, with the belief that young people’s lives could be transformed through high-quality music education. The trust provides 8,030 students with regular tuition and instruments through programmes. Lloyd Webber said: “At a time when schools are so under pressure that music teaching is at serious risk, programmes like Misst are needed more than ever before.” Its research shows Misst students are “bucking the national trend”, with self-confidence, for example, increasing by more than 10% in schools that have the programme compared with those that do not. Its latest report, which will be published on Thursday, presents compelling statistics on the impact of such programmes on 11- to 18-year-olds, such as improving self-confidence and resilience. He pointed to the work of the Music in Secondary Schools Trust (Misst), which partners with schools in disadvantaged areas to provide regular classical music tuition. “It is proven, but I’ve found, in dealing with this government, one’s been banging one’s head against a brick wall on so many issues – and this one is a no-brainer,” he added. Andrew Lloyd Webber with some of the children on Music in Secondary Schools Trust programmes.
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