As Leicester MusicFest has evolved over the last 11 years, we have grown from two event days to five, and provide additional opportunities throughout the year, through our Outreach Programme:
 

• Our Instrument Rehoming Scheme collects, cleans and repairs unwanted instruments and rehomes them to students in need. The scheme has rehomed nearly 500 instruments to date (as of June 2026).

 

• Our Forest Gamelan project installs outdoor music classrooms in primary schools, combining the well-documented benefits of both music education and outdoor learning. Following a successful pilot project at Tudor Grange Samworth Academy in 2023, we completed our second Forest Gamelan project at Robert Bakewell Primary School in Loughborough in 2025.

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• Our Schools Outreach strand sees us partnering with local schools to provide workshops, performance projects and music trips. In recent years we have partnered on:

  • an Organ Inspiration Day for school children in Loughborough

  • funding towards travel costs to allow a school brass band to take part in the National Youth Brass Championships for the first time

  • ongoing equipment support for Charnwood College and Hinckley Schools Orchestra 

  • donating substantial sets of brass and stringed instruments to two local primary schools, to enable them to establish brand new funded tuition programmes

  • singing workshops in schools as part of community performance projects