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This year, Sophie and I are embarking on a significant physical and mental feat to support George’s Rockstars, a charitable organization established in late 2019 by George’s family. Their objective is simple: to bring joy to children in hospitals, beginning with providing music therapy in hospital wards.
Our challenge is to ascend Ben Nevis, Scafell Pike, and Yr Wyddfa (Snowdon) within 24 hours. Although Sophie and I are fairly active people we have never completed a challenge like this and it will certainly take extensive training to get through it in the time that we have and cope with the lack of sleep as we will have to walk through the night. Therefore, please donate generously to this exceptional charity and support us in this undertaking :).
https://georgesrockstars.com/what-we-do/
Why Music Therapy?George was fortunate enough to benefit from music therapy sessions while in isolation during his bone marrow transplant at Bristol Children’s Hospital. Music therapy was the highlight of George’s week during a very tough time and George’s parents saw how happy the children on the ward were when the music therapist came around. It gave a then 4 year old George a way to express his feelings of frustration.For children who have life threatening illnesses or disabilities, music therapy can be an extremely effective way of helping them to communicate their thoughts, feelings and worries during difficult and stressful times.
We have since been hard at work applying for more funding through grants and corporate sponsorship and have took on our first music therapist, Cathy, for the children’s department in Queen Alexandra Hospital, Portsmouth.Our aim is to expand the number of hospitals we provide music therapy in as the charity and funding grows and in 2021 we aim to start providing music therapy at Southampton Children’s Hospital.
Our challenge is to ascend Ben Nevis, Scafell Pike, and Yr Wyddfa (Snowdon) within 24 hours. Although Sophie and I are fairly active people we have never completed a challenge like this and it will certainly take extensive training to get through it in the time that we have and cope with the lack of sleep as we will have to walk through the night. Therefore, please donate generously to this exceptional charity and support us in this undertaking :).
https://georgesrockstars.com/what-we-do/
Why Music Therapy?George was fortunate enough to benefit from music therapy sessions while in isolation during his bone marrow transplant at Bristol Children’s Hospital. Music therapy was the highlight of George’s week during a very tough time and George’s parents saw how happy the children on the ward were when the music therapist came around. It gave a then 4 year old George a way to express his feelings of frustration.For children who have life threatening illnesses or disabilities, music therapy can be an extremely effective way of helping them to communicate their thoughts, feelings and worries during difficult and stressful times.
We have since been hard at work applying for more funding through grants and corporate sponsorship and have took on our first music therapist, Cathy, for the children’s department in Queen Alexandra Hospital, Portsmouth.Our aim is to expand the number of hospitals we provide music therapy in as the charity and funding grows and in 2021 we aim to start providing music therapy at Southampton Children’s Hospital.
