The Song Room is a national not-for-profit organisation that brightens the futures of Australia’s most disadvantaged children with tailored, high-quality music and arts programs, delivered in partnership with schools across the country.

Our aim is to bridge the education equity gap for all Australian children by facilitating learning through the arts, starting with our most vulnerable groups and reaching all School communities that lack specialist music and arts education. We want every child to benefit from long-term school music and arts programs.

Our programs are independently proven to lift the academic performance, school attendance, social-emotional wellbeing and community involvement of Australian school children.

Independent evidence shows that The Song Room programs:

· Lifted students’ literacy (NAPLAN) by up to an entire year

· Almost halved the proportion of children at the lowest levels on the Social and Emotional Wellbeing Index

· Reduced school absenteeism by up to 65%

· Improved children’s capacity to concentrate

· Improved children’s levels of engagement with their learning

3 out of 4 children still have no access to music education.

Every child deserves the best possible start and every opportunity to succeed in life.