Sunbeams Community Music Therapy
Founded by Cumbrian born Harpist and Singer, Annie Mawson MBE in 1992, Sunbeams provides Community Music Therapy to children and adults with a wide range of disabilities and complex medical needs including physical disabilities and severe mental health problems, sensory impairments, emotional and behavioural disturbance and profound multiple disabilities.
The Charity provides two Sunbeams Programmes: Sunbeams Music For Life® and Music For Dignity®. The Programmes are tailored to use Music for therapeutic and educational benefit and aim to improve quality of life through the power and creative freedom of Music. Our Delivery Team are trained Professional Musicians with specific therapeutic training in our Programmes. We deliver to groups here at the bespoke Sunbeams Music Centre, just outside of Penrith, in Outreach Venues across Cumbria and online using Zoom.
Our Programmes promote inclusivity and equality regardless of age, health conditions, disability…At Sunbeams, we focus on the ABILITY and not the disability.
By tackling the serious challenges raised by social exclusion, deprivation, ill-health and inequality, Sunbeams is ‘reaching the unreachables’.





Up next…
Fundraising & Events: It’s Party time again at Sunbeams!
Incredible Line-Up for our 33rd Anniversary here at Sunbeams featuring rising stars ‘Wrong Direction’, Deatbeats, Kevin the Magician and even Peppa Pig is coming!!
LIVE in the Sunbeams Music Centre Gardens!
Sunday 8th June 2025 2-6pm! Free Entry. Donations Appreciated.


The Wolfson Meeting Room
Accommodates up to 18 delegates in all-day comfort chairs around a large board room style table.
Modern, light and airy room offering spectacular views.
Built in LCD projector and remote controlled screen. Fully inclusive and accessible facilities.
The Glassical Hall
Named after Sunbeams Musical Patron Philip Glass, the Glassical Hall offers an acoustically neutral space housing the relationship between Architecture and Music. A multipurpose space which accommodates up to 100 delegates.
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Sunbeams Projects
Live Music Sessions
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Annie Mawson’s Sunbeams Music Trust congratulate and thank Lisa Franny Askins on her incredible success and support Sunbeams are extremely proud to congratulate Lisa Franny Askins from Penrith on her incredible achievement of completing the London Marathon on Sunday....
Come to the Sunbeams Party! Annie Mawson’s Sunbeams Music Trust are thrilled to welcome everyone to join them at their musical extravaganza, their Annual 'Party Time at Sunbeams’. It will take place within the grounds of the Sunbeams Music Centre, Stoller House,...
Rebecca and Rachel’s fundraiser for Sunbeams Music Trust
Annie Mawson’s Sunbeams Music Trust were thrilled to invite Rachel Johnson and Rebecca Burrow to the Sunbeams Music Trust on the 13th January to gratefully receive an enormous donation of £2445.05.