London Music Masters (LMM), a music charity providing music education to inner-city primary schools and violin awards for young emerging professionals, launches the first London-wide musical instrument recycling campaign – LOST & SOUND. The campaign is a rallying call for supporters to donate disused violins, cellos, trumpets, flutes and clarinets for distribution to LMM Bridge Project children aged 5-9, in some of the capital’s most deprived boroughs.

LMM believes that every child deserves a chance to play a musical instrument. By launching a London-wide initiative, LOST & SOUND aims to bring greater awareness to the importance of music education in primary schools and breathe life into old instruments. The initiative will help LMM to save money on instrument purchase and hire, allowing the charity to focus its resources on high quality teaching.

Initially the instruments will be loaned to Bridge Project children in the three primary schools in Lambeth and Westminster where the Bridge Project is currently active. Surplus instruments will be offered to local music services, hubs and other relevant charities. LMM will aim to work with its creative partner organisations (London Philharmonic Orchestra, Southbank Centre, Royal College of Music and Wigmore Hall) to raise awareness of the campaign.

Anyone interested in donating an instrument should contact Rachel Wadham, Bridge Project and Marketing Manager, on 020 7267 7982 / rwadham@londonmusicmasters.org