OKMT (Otakar Kraus Music Trust)

The Trust helps children and young people with additional needs or disabilities to play a musical instrument or sing and perform in public, They attend weekly 45-minute sessions with a qualified and experienced music therapist, who communicates with the child through Makaton signing, visual effects, simple language and music, using improvisation on keyboard and percussion to help the child to engage with her and take part in a musical activity. We now have 78 pupils at OK Music School and hold 4 public concerts every year (2 in summer and 2 at Christmas).