The Choral Foundation supports and maintains the Choir, Director of Music, Organist and Organ Scholar.

To ensure that any local boy with potential has the best opportunity to train as a chorister and make progress in the choir, the Choral Foundation provides a non means-tested bursary to each boy to cover the cost of instrumental music lessons, voice coaching or music theory. This musical tuition complements a chorister’s training. To find the Chapel Royal choristers of the future, the Choral Foundation funds an open day for prospective choristers and their parents in September each year.

Being a chorister of the Chapel Royal at Hampton Court is the finest musical education that a child can receive, and an experience that stands him in good stead for any future career, musical or otherwise. Many choristers play several musical instruments and gain musical scholarships to their next school or places at national conservatoires. Some choristers go on to play the organ, and several have become organ scholars at local churches and at their universities. You can sponsor a chorister or contribute to the bursary fund in a number of ways and have the award named or dedicated as you wish.