About us
About us
Our history and mission
Our story
Jessica May George was lively, bright and musical, and just nine years old when she was suddenly diagnosed with a rare and inoperable brain tumour. Jessie’s Fund was established to meet the cost of treatment planned for her in the USA and was named by Jessie herself, but she died in May 1994, just five months after her diagnosis and before managing to travel to the States.
Jessie’s parents, musicians Lesley Schatzberger and Alan George, decided that Jessie’s Fund should become a charity dedicated to helping seriously ill and disabled children through music: it was registered as such in 1995. Based in York, Jessie’s Fund helps children all over the UK.
Our mission and aims
Jessie’s Fund was established as a registered charity in 1995 and helps children with serious illness, complex needs, and communication difficulties through the therapeutic use of music. Music can provide a powerful and profound way in which children can express themselves and connect with the world around them. Our work covers all areas of the UK.
We aim to:
- enable children in every children’s hospice in the UK to access music therapy by establishing posts for music therapists, providing appropriate musical instruments, and offering musical training to staff;
• help children in specialist schools and hospitals to participate in creative musical activities;
• train staff in specialist schools to use music as a tool for communication and learning.
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£10 a month for a year could fund a family music session for pre-school children with communication difficulties
£25 a month for a year could buy a set of accessible and engaging instruments to be used by patients on a children’s ward
£50 could fund an hour’s music therapy session for a child with life-limiting illness
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