Help Musicians and Music Minds Matter release 2025 Annual Report
Latest report outlines our impact in 2025, sharing details about our work and real stories from musicians across the country
Today marks the launch of our new Annual Report, sharing information about our work, the experiences of those we have supported, and our achievements in 2025.
Help Musicians has always been a vital safety net, helping musicians and their families in times of need for 104 years. Today, we continue to provide charitable support to musicians, although the nature of that support has evolved and expanded to meet the changing world they operate in.
2025 in numbers:
- 13,000 interventions supporting careers, health and wellbeing
- 2,000+ people supported with physical health and wellbeing
- 1,623 musicians protected through hearing health support
- 100 musicians mentored by industry professionals
- 43 musicians supported through targeted genre programmes
Every musician comes to us with their own story, shaped by unique circumstances, experiences and challenges. In 2025 we continued to evolve our services to reflect this.
Our wellbeing services provided tailored assistance to those facing illness, injury, financial hardship and other difficulties that may otherwise pause or even end a career in music. Alongside that, our career development support expanded in response to the ever-changing pressures and opportunities facing musicians. Through training, advice, access to peer networks, funding and more, we ensured that musicians have the tools they need to build sustainable lives in music.
This vital work is only possible thanks to the generosity of our donors, partners, and the many individuals who selflessly give their time and resources to support our two organisations. To everyone who contributed to the charities’ impact this year: thank you. Your support played a crucial role in helping those on stage, behind the scenes and in between connect to help, access support which matched their needs, and stay in music bringing more wonderful creativity to us all.
Over the past three years, Help Musicians and Music Minds Matter invested £17m to help people reimagine what a sustainable career in music looks like and ensure that our services make the greatest possible difference.
Our ambition is to further increase our impact through even more effective, scalable and efficient interventions. By mid-2026 we will have remodelled our entire programme of support across both charities to drive our impact, income and profile in the years to come.
Change is inherent to music, and those we support live in an everchanging world and economic ecosystem. We will continue to reflect this, evolving how we work to support people in music financially, physically and mentally at scale in the decades to come.
We extend particular gratitude to the following individuals and organisations for their significant financial support to our charities this year:
- The Alchemy Foundation
- Amazon Music
- The Christopher Meredith Foundation
- The Constance Travis Charitable Trust
- The Echo Trust
- Graham Brookman
- Isobel and Michael Holland
- Jane Jewell
- The Snudden Family Charitable Trust
- The Ivors Academy
- The Kathleen Smith Foundation
- The Ofenheim Charitable Trust
- PPL
- Promenaders’ Musical Charities
- PRS
- Shelia’s Cycle Challenge
- Skiddle
- Spotify
- Steinway and Sons UK
- 1921 Club Members
- And those who wish to remain anonymous
Music Minds Matter
Our sister charity Music Minds Matter has continued to grow, now constituting a vital service through which anyone working in music can access mental health support. This Annual Report explores the charity’s work in more detail.
In 2025 we:
- Delivered 3,500 interventions to support the mental health of people in music
- Answered 1,198 calls to our Music Minds Matter 24/7 helpline