The BRIT Trust
Nordoff Robbins has enjoyed a warm and longstanding relationship with The BRIT Trust (est 1989) since 1990, when a huge rock concert at Knebworth Park featuring Nordoff Robbins Silver Clef Award winners (Paul McCartney, Status Quo, Genesis, Phil Collins, Eric Clapton, Tears for Fears, Dire Straits, Pink Floyd, Elton John, Robert Plant and Jimmy Page, Cliff Richard and The Shadows) raised over £6 million. The proceeds were shared jointly by Nordoff Robbins and The BRIT Trust, enabling Nordoff Robbins to establish a new Centre in north London, and The BRIT Trust to build the BRIT School for Performing Arts and Technology in Croydon.
The BRIT Trust is the charitable arm of the BPI, the UK recorded music industry’s representative voice. The BRIT Trust’s mission is to encourage young people in the exploration and pursuit of educational, cultural or therapeutic benefits emanating from music. Over nearly twenty years it has donated over £3 million to Nordoff Robbins through proceeds of the annual BRIT Awards and Classical BRIT Awards shows.
In 2009 Nordoff Robbins opened a new music therapy unit in the grounds of the BRIT School, cementing the enduring association of the two organisations. The unit is the administrative centre of Nordoff Robbins’ South East services, as well as being a resource for the community of Croydon and surrounding areas.
We are privileged to have benefited so substantially from our association with the BRIT Trust over the past two decades and would like to express deep appreciation for its ongoing generous support of Nordoff Robbins.