The LMP has an excellent track record of working in primary, secondary and special schools, out of school clubs, care homes and day centres, working with children of all ages and size of group, those with special needs and frail elderly people not able to attend concerts. Below is a selection of current LMP projects. To enquire further about any projects, email margaret@lmp.org or call 020 8464 1645.
Pre-School
Adventures in Sound
For children under five (and accompanying parents/carers in nursery settings) over four progressive workshops, the range of activities includes singing, dancing, playing percussion and learning about orchestral instruments through active listening.
Storytime for 3-5-year-olds
This short show for children of nursery age is presented by three musicians and a storyteller. It was featured on BBC2 in the children’s programme 'You and Me'.
Primary Schools
Exploring Music
A concert-demonstration, usually by two instrumentalists, tailored to suit any age range and appropriate for large audiences. Lasting about an hour, the 
musicians talk about their instruments and how they work as well as performing a selection of music. Fun and informal, thousands of schoolchildren throughout England, Wales and Scotland have enjoyed these concerts.
Schools' Concerts
Schools' concerts are based on a theme that links the music together and are introduced by a presenter. The LMP has a long-standing relationship with Alasdair Malloy , who has presented themed concerts including 'Nautical Notes', 'Top Scores' and 'Heroes'. The LMP Education Manager has also presented and performed at concerts, including one called 'Wake Up, Mr Mozart!' They are held during school hours with teachers in attendance.
Secondary Schools
Introduction to the Orchestra
Aimed at Year 7 students being encouraged to take up an instrument. The LMP tries to tailor individual visits to school requirements, varying from masterclasses, performance workshops, chamber coaching, etc., as well as introducing students to instruments at close quarters. 
Creative Music Making
Carefully planned composition projects aimed at a specially-selected group of pupils – could be GCSE/ A-levels, could be others. A recent example is 'Mozart in Millbrook', when Michael Omer , best known for his TV and film compositions, worked with 40 students from Redbridge Community School in Southampton, most of whom came from Millbrook housing estate, and musicians from the London Mozart Players. Together they produced ‘Mozart in Millbrook’a piece that includes a rap – which explores how Mozart would feel if he visited the children’s own inner-city housing estate today.
Special Schools
Music and the Senses
Children with a large variety of learning difficulties in special schools have been offered ‘ Music and the Senses’ , a multi-sensory project in which players use different stimuli to engage children in listening and improvisation. Further development of the project has involved work alongside a choreographer, a visual artist or most recently a prizewinning film-maker who explored the potential of engaging children with special needs through live video work, blending appropriate images with live pictures of the children themselves, creating music alongside the LMP musicians, to give the children a new opportunity to extend their concept of self.
Community projects
Music for the elderly
Small groups of players from the orchestra provide short entertainments for frail elderly and disadvantaged adults in a wide range of settings, including 
nursing homes, hospitals, hospices and day centres, staying on after the music to share a cup of tea and a chat .
Mozart's Party
Professional dancers teach an audience of young and older people to dance the minuet etc. to music performed by LMP. Either care homes act as hosts and provide tea for the visiting schoolchildren or vice versa.
Out-of-school clubs
Nestlé Music days
Between 1997-2007 the LMP was involved with Nestlé Music Days, for which it devised ‘mini residencies’ for the musicians to take into schools during the day, followed by fun musical activities in the after school clubs in the late afternoon. Due its huge success, the idea therefore developed to produce a CD and an accompanying activity guide for use by the playworkers in the kids’ clubs. “Sounds Like Fun!”, sponsored by Nestlé was launched in November 1998 and has been acclaimed by education and music specialists, as well as by the press, as one of the most imaginative and exciting products of its type.
The programme reached 12,000 young people a year visiting up to 80 schools and 50 after school and holiday clubs . Over 10 years, this would equate to 120,000 young people in some 800 schools and 500 clubs – at least 1,300 ‘performances’.
Nestlé Make-a-disc
In 2003 the LMP launched Make-a-disc, sponsored by Nestlé. Essentially, a series of creative music programmes for 11-16 year olds in Make Space clubs. The members of the clubs were invited to record a CD of their own music-making. They were taken through the entire process of recording a CD by an LMP musician and a sound technician. From its launch in 2003 to its end in Spring 2007 over 100 clubs were visited and over 1,200 young people participated and received a CD of their work.
