Funders & Supporters
Much of the work we do is offered free of charge. To enable us to do this we need investment from trusts and foundations who stand beside us as our service grows.
Mindsong also has so many advocates and supporters in our county and beyond who value what we do. Some have had first-hand experience; some already give their time as volunteers but also find time to fundraise.
We couldn’t do what we do and reach those that need us without their support.
Our Funding Partners
Our Supporters
Our deepest gratitude for the support and generous fundraising from:
Donations imo Graham Partington
Donations imo Dot Houghton
Donations imo Harry Gould
Donations imo Jill Ruck
Donations imo May Barnard
Charles & Katy Bagnall
S Lyon
Jill Ruck
Bethesda@6
Roy Crompton
Money.com.uk
Freemasons (Forest)
Mrs & Mrs Lee-Browne
NARPO
Kate Hicks Beach
St George’s Entertainers
Stroud High School
D Barnard
Chris Hall
Susie & Ashwin
Ashlea Financial Planning Ltd
Vasser Smith Freemasons
St Martin’s Church
Christ Church Cheltenham
Catholic Women’s League
Mu3ac (U3A)
Charles Scott
Rachel Cottell
G Hill
He can no longer communicate and is normally unresponsive, but this morning he was taking it all in.’ Those calm words express in a sentence a moment in one man’s life when for a short time, he was lifted by music. A man in whose room the dashing black and white photos of a happy couple’s wedding day hint at the hidden past of someone who can’t now understand the world he lives in. Someone whose stories are locked far away in his mind, long beyond retelling or sharing.
But the power of music to connect is stronger than our ability to reason. Even the wisest and most rational of us cannot really explain what happens when an interval between two notes arouses one feeling, the rhythm of a phrase another. And the memory for melody fades long after much else has gone: in the misty world of dementia, a familiar tune can pierce the gloom like a sunbeam. In those short moments when, playing my violin on my knees by a patient’s bedside, a hint of a smile crosses their face or their hands reach out to move with the music, they and I are certainly lifted beyond understanding to the realm where the musical becomes the spiritual.”