Our Mission

Why Music Therapy?

George was fortunate enough to benefit from music therapy sessions while in isolation during his bone marrow transplant at Bristol Children’s Hospital.

Music therapy was the highlight of George’s week during a very tough time and George’s parents saw how happy the children on the ward were when the music therapist came around. It gave a then 4 year old George a way to express his feelings of frustration.

What Is Music Therapy?

Music is part of all of us – in our heartbeats and movements, our laughter, crying and singing. Music Therapy uses music to help children and their families live creatively and resourcefully in the face of illness, disability and trauma.

Music Therapists know that being in hospital or living with a long term condition might bring up lots of different feelings and can be difficult and scary. Music therapy is an amazing way to help both children and their families explore and express their feelings without having to put them into words – and it can also be lots of fun!

Our Music Therapists

George’s Rockstars have a small team of Music Therapists who are professionally qualified and registered with the Health and Care Professions Council (HCPC) and have many years of specialist training to support children, young people and their families.

Find out more about our growing team on our Meet The Team page.

Our Safeguarding Policy

Click here to download our current Safeguarding Policy – (DOCX / 1.1 MB)

Our Work So Far

We started Music Therapy in 2021 in Queen Alexandra Hospital, Portsmouth and within a year grew to cover 4 hospitals across Hampshire including Basingstoke, Winchester and the Piam Brown Children’s Oncology ward at Southampton Children Hospital.

Since beginning on just one ward at Southampton Children’s Hospital, our largest regional children’s hospital, we have grown to cover the children’s intensive care unit (PICU) and high dependency (PHDU), G2 Wessex Neurological Unit and Ocean Ward, the children’s cardiac unity.

We are now on a mission to bring music therapy to more wards at Southampton Children Hospital so that every ward at the regional specialist children’s hospital receives music therapy insuring all children have access to emotional and psychological support during their time in hospital.

In 2024 we expanded again to the Royal Alexandra Children’s hospital in Brighton, thanks to our first legacy gift. In early 2025, we reached Worthing hospital taking on a pilot scheme started by Waves Music Therapy.

Thanks to support from Teddy Rocks festival and the Newton family, we have been able to begin music therapy sessions in from October 2025 in Poole hospital and the Dorset County Hospital in Dorchester.

We have also collaborated with another fantastic children’s charity, Sebastian’s Action Trust to bring music therapy session to families at the Bluebells centre near Basingstoke for children with complex medical needs.

Beyond Southampton, we have a waiting list of children hospital wards that want us to bring the power of music to the children on their wards and our mission is to bring music therapy to every children’s hospital ward in the country.

We are so proud to show the difference music therapy has been making to children in hospitals across Hampshire, Sussex and Dorset in George’s name. George’s little sister Bella especially was very proud to see how she is helping children like her brother smile during filming.

We couldn’t help these children without your support so thank you! Please share and help us grow support for the charity and reach more children like George through music and meet the huge demand we have.

Huge thanks to Ollie Uglow – Freelance Filmmaker for helping us show the world what we do and working so hard to create this and to all of the families involved in the film.