Nordoff-Robbins Music Therapy is the UK's largest specialist music therapy charity, providing over 30,000 therapy sessions a year through its National Centre in London and 64 outreach projects nationwide. It also runs postgraduate training programmes in music therapy and a research programme with regular public courses and conferences.

Nordoff-Robbins Music Therapy uses musical co-improvisation to help improve the quality of life for children and adults isolated by conditions such as learning disabilities, autism, mental health problems, neurological damage or serious and terminal illness. It receives no statutory funding and needs to raise in excess of £3m a year to operate. Of this, 85p in every £1 raised goes to music therapy.

For further information: www.nordoff-robbins.org.uk

Sparks is a unique children's charity that seeks to find cures for conditions affecting babies, children and expectant mothers. Our lifesaving work tackles a number of life threatening illnesses including Neuroblastoma, the biggest single cause of cancer deaths in one to five year-olds.

All of our pioneering, groundbreaking work has a single aim: to give every child the chance to be born healthy and grow up healthy. Our breakthrough research has helped thousands of children who only a few years ago may not have survived, let alone grow up, experience and share the simple joys we all take for granted.

When you ask any expectant parent if they want a boy or a girl, the answer is almost always the same, they don't care as long as the baby's healthy. That is what Sparks is about.

For further information: www.sparks.org.uk