11 August 2023, 17:54
The Music in Secondary Schools Trust (MiSST) has helped 29 schools in the UK offer free instruments and lessons to their students.
Over the last decade, a community school in Walthamstow has seen an improvement in grades, for both students and school, after starting a programme where it gives each of its pupils free music lessons and access to instruments.
The Frederick Bremer School offers its pupils the opportunity to learn either violin, viola or flute during Years 7 and 8 thanks to the Music in Secondary Schools Trust (MiSST). Set up in 2013, the trust provides funding to 29 different schools across the country to offer free musical instrument lessons.
Lord Andrew Lloyd Webber, who supports the trust through his own foundation, told Classic FM’s sister station LBCin June this year, that the …