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’.





Genesis Homes Charity Ball: West End to Broadway @ Low Wood Bay
Saturday 11th November 2023
All proceeds to Annie Mawson’s Sunbeams Music Trust.
NOW FULLY BOOKED
‘4/4 FREDA’ IS LAUNCHED!


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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Julia and Hans Rausing £25,000 Grant to support Sunbeams ‘Music for Dignity’® Projects!
This summer, Julia and Hans Rausing announced grants totalling £2 million to 41 disability charities across the UK. These grants will support charities of varying sizes meet the challenges of helping those with disabilities amidst the cost-of-living crisis. Annie...
Ten Thousand Daffodils raised £310,000!!
The Ten Thousand Daffodils has raised an INCREDIBLE £310,000 for its beneficiary charities, Another Way, Ullswater Catchment CIC, FoUW, New Horizon, Sunbeams and James’ Place. The funds are to be shared equally between the 6 charities. We are so grateful for the...
O DUO ARE BACK! Wednesday 11th October 2023 Doors open @ 7pm
Come and join us for another Sunbeams fundraising evening in aid of Sunbeams Community Music Therapy Projects. This month it's O Duo: Owen Gunnell and Toby Kearney. Leading Worldwide Percussionists who play pretty much anything and everything they can get their hands...