Nordoff and Robbins, the music therapy charity behind the Silver Clef Awards, holds its London Carols at St Luke’s, Chelsea, with celebrity readings and live performances.
Nordoff and Robbins, the music therapy charity, holds its London Carols at St Luke’s Church in Chelsea on Tuesday 8 December 2026. Celebrity readings and live musical performances sit between traditional carols.
The charity began in 1959, when the American composer Paul Nordoff and the British teacher Clive Robbins started making music with isolated children at Sunfield Children’s Home in Stourbridge.
They created the first Nordoff and Robbins training programme in 1974. It became a charity in 1976, and its first Silver Clef Awards lunch that year honoured The Who.
London Carols has run every year since 1997. The money it raises pays for music therapy for some of the most isolated people across the UK, children and adults alike.
This year’s readers and performers are still to be announced. Each ticket includes a souvenir programme, a festive drink and a mince pie.
St Luke’s was built from 1820 to 1824, when Chelsea’s medieval parish church, now Chelsea Old Church, had grown too small for the parish.