Music really does matter at Inspiration Trust! Inspiration Trust Named as a Trinity Champion Centre for Trinity College London

This month, Inspiration Trust is celebrating some extremely exciting news, with the Trust being selected as a Trinity Champion Centre for 2023-2024 by Trinity College London, one of only 22 chosen Music and Drama Centres in the UK!

With a passion for making music accessible to everyone, Inspiration Trust continually champions the importance of music education within a child’s life and wholeheartedly believes that all pupils, no matter their circumstances, should have the opportunity to learn, play and perform music. 

Alongside an already brilliant music curriculum, the Trust is proud to provide dedicated music tuition for its pupils through the hiring of an in-house team of Peripatetic Visiting Music Teachers while also highly-subsidising the cost of students taking up instruments. In the last year alone, the number of pupils taking up extra-curricular music lessons doubled to over 600, of which 200 are having completely free tuition where they are able to play a variety of orchestral instruments.

John Stephens, Director of Music, Inspiration Trust says:

 “I am delighted to be part of a trust that ensures the importance of music is recognised, and continues to open doors for pupils within the Trust and East Anglia to get involved.

 

It is wonderful to be selected as a Champion Centre for Trinity College London, I’m sure not only for our successful delivery of Trinity’s excellent musical qualifications, but also for our commitment to continued professional development, inclusive opportunities, investment in musical equipment and training, competitions, performances, and many more opportunities. It’s a great next step in our collaboration with Trinity.”

Inspiration Trust, which already works as a partner with Trinity College London, supports schools within and beyond the Trust to provide a high-quality music education, both in curricular and extra-curricular settings and continues to champion music education in East Anglia. 

They offer bespoke training and development for existing teachers as well as musical training to those on the Trust’s Teaching Training courses, all of which Trinity College London’s theory is embedded into, while also having a growing number of pupils preparing for Trinity College London graded examinations in Classical & Jazz and Rock & Pop subjects. 

Inspiration Trust states there is much anecdotal evidence of the positive impact that music lessons and the work of its Visiting Music Teachers have on the lives of children. This includes improved pupil attendance because a child has found something at school that they really love and class teachers saying they’ve seen a difference in levels of perseverance in children.

Businesses and organisations that are chosen as Trinity Champion Centres inspire existing and potential centres by sharing their practice and advocating for the qualifications in their communities and further afield.