About the Business

As lead partner in the Sutton Music Hub, Sutton Music Service works with a range of partner organisations to create all kinds of opportunities for children and young people in the London Borough of Sutton to have an excellent, high quality music education. Supported using public funding from the Department for Education and Arts Council England, we are also tasked with delivering the aspirations of the National Plan for Music Education.

In 2016-17, our hub partners include London Borough of Sutton, Inspire Works, Charanga Music, Nordoff Robbins, Primo Music, Music For Youth, ArtsOne Rocks, Emerald Music School, South West London Music Education Partnership, Band of the Grenadier Guards, Mayor's Music Fund and, of course, all local schools and academies.

Business Services

KS2 Whole Class Instrumental Tuition (WCIT)

KS2 Whole Class Instrumental Tuition (WCIT)

Following the Government's pledge in 2000 that '...over time, all pupils in primary schools who wish to, will have the opportunity to learn a musical instrument...', Sutton Music Service launched Whole Class Instrumental Tuition pilot programmes in two schools in 2003, expanding to four schools in 2005. We now deliver a range of programmes in seventeen Sutton primary schools, providing integrated general musicianship and instrumental tuition at KS2 to more than 1900 children a week.

The schools in which WCIT is currently offered are: Abbey Primary, Barrow Hedges Primary, Brookfield Primary, Cheam Common Junior, Cheam Park Farm Junior, Dorchester Primary, Hackbridge Primary, Harris Junior Academy (Carshatlon), High View Primary, Holy Trinity CofE Junior, Manor Park Primary, Muschamp Primary, Robin Hood Junior, Stanley Park Junior, St Elphege's RC Junior, St Mary's RC Junior School and Westbourne Primary.
Business Products

Instrument Hire

Instrument Hire

Sutton Music Service currently has over one thousand musical instruments in its popular Instrument Hire scheme, enabling a large number of children and young people to learn a musical instrument at a subsidised cost. The cost, for all instruments, is £30 per term.

Instruments can only be hired for the use of children attending and taking instrumental lessons at a London Borough of Sutton maintained school, or who are members of Music Service ensembles.

The instruments in our hire scheme include: violin, viola, cello, flute, clarinet, saxophone, trumpet, trombone, french horn, tenor horn, baritone, euphonium and tuba.
Location & Hours

Carshalton on the Hill, Gaynesford Lodge, Blake Close

Carshalton, SM5 1LJ
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