Ed Sheeran Creates Music Foundation for Kids
It’s hard to think of a nicer guy in the music industry than Ed Sheeran. He’s a good and simple guy who cares about people and it shows in the many things he says and does.
A good example of this is that he often visits schools to speak about the importance of music education. Now, to show how much he cares about the subject, he’s established the Ed Sheeran Foundation.
Ed Sheeran Foundation for Kids Details
The Ed Sheeran Foundation is designed to help kids not only learn how to play music, but also gain the skills they’d need to enter the music industry in other capacities.
He shared this in an Instagram post:
“I set up @edsheeranfnd because recently there’s been less and less importance being put on music education. Even when I was in school it was seen as a ‘doss subject’ and not taken seriously. There’s a misconception that it’s ’not a real job’ – when the music industry accounts for 216,000 jobs in so many different fields, and bringing as much as £7.6 billion in a year to the UK economy. Not to mention the power our art has worldwide to bring joy to people.”
He didn’t stop there, saying, “It’s something we should be proud of and championing in the UK, not sweeping under the rug and pretending we are just bankers (no offence to bankers obvz). It was incredible for my mental health as a kid, feeling a sense of purpose and achievement, even just learning piano or cello at a young age way before songwriting.”
Ed also said that through the foundation, he wants “kids to be able to learn instruments, learn production and songwriting, performing, and have apprenticeship schemes help them learn different skills to enter the industry. Music is such a key part of our society.”
Ed says that the more he travels, the more he sees people who are being “undervalued and underserved. I’m hoping this foundation is a start to giving them the support they need to keep going and show them they are hugely important to us.”
Check out the foundation here.
