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’.





Special Events Coming Up!
Ten Thousand Daffodils – A Charity Fundraising Ceramic Installation @ Lowther Castle & Gardens
24TH APRIL – 24TH JUNE 2023
Aquarelle – Europe’s Leading Guitar Quartet @ Sunbeams Music Centre
3RD JUNE 2023
The Proms 2023 at Sunbeams! @ Sunbeams Music Centre
22ND JULY 2023
Billy Cooper @ Penrith Cricket Club
23RD JULY 2023
London Youth Wind Band @ Sunbeams Music Centre
25TH JULY 2023
MUGS – Morland Ukulele Group @ Sunbeams Music Centre
14TH SEPTEMBER 2023
O DUO @ Sunbeams Music Centre
12TH OCTOBER 2023

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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The Proms at Sunbeams is BACK! Celebrating 1992-2023! BOOK NOW!
Don't miss the Proms at Sunbeams! World Class Soloists from the National Symphony Orchestra, led by Artistic Director and Patron of Sunbeams, Justin Pearson. (Music for Monarchy, Classic FM and appeared on 3 Royal Variety Performances). The one and only Annette...
Celebrating 31 Years of Sunbeams! Fundraising Concerts are BACK!
Our fabulous fundraising Concerts are back here at the Sunbeams Music Centre! We are so excited for what's in store...
DAFFODIL SHOP NOW OPEN! Ten Thousand Daffodils: A Charity Fundraising Ceramic Installation
24 APRIL - 24 JUNE 2023, LOWTHER CASTLE & GARDENS “When all at once I saw a crowd,A host of golden daffodils;...Ten thousand saw I at a glance,Tossing their heads in sprightly dance”. We are absolutely delighted to be one of the 6 charities benefiting from...