During an ordinary Proms season, there is hardly a concert that is not followed by a collection for musical charities. On your way out of the Royal Albert Hall, you would meet the friendly collectors with their yellow buckets inviting you to make donations to the charities chosen for that season.

This year, the Proms will be without the usual live audience, which makes bucket collections somewhat difficult. Yet, the charities need your donations more than ever. This fundraising page gives you the opportunity to make a donation from the comfort of your own home.

With CLIC Sargent we will continue to fund their music therapy work with children and young people with cancer (and their families). Life with cancer is hard enough in normal times, but of course there are inevitably many more worries at the moment, and this is vital support to help those receiving treatment for cancer. Unfortunately this work had to be suspended in the early part of the pandemic, but these donations will help remobilise the service, potentially moving to an online service, depending on what restrictions remain in place within hospitals.