William Rose FoundationHope · Community · Music
The William Rose Foundation is being built to support parents of neurodivergent children, and to bring music back into UK state schools. It’s fronted by William. It’s named for William and his sister Rose.
The story
William, 15
William is a finalist on Channel 4’s The Piano, Series 6. He plays like the world drops away, because for him it sometimes does. He’s neurodivergent.
The Foundation is fronted by William. His voice and his story are the spine of everything we’re building, on his terms, at his pace.
Lee and Nicole
Fifteen years of raising a neurodivergent child taught us what’s missing for UK families like ours.
This Foundation is the thing we wished existed when we needed it most. It’s being built so the next parents don’t have to feel as alone as we sometimes did.
The differentiator
Most neurodiversity charities in the UK focus on the child alone. Parents get addressed as carers. Siblings, almost never. Hundreds of thousands of children in the UK grow up alongside a neurodivergent brother or sister, shaped by experiences few people ever talk to them about.
Whatever we build for parents, we build with siblings in mind from day one. The sibling thread runs through every programme, every letter, every conversation.
What we do
Hope. Community. Music. The same three values run through both tracks. The first is open now. The second arrives in 2027.
Track 1 · Open now
A peer community for parents of neurodivergent children. A monthly letter from Lee. A private space where parents who get it find each other.
Shared experience, shared resources, shared language. Built by parents who lived it first, before they ever wrote it down.
Join the waitlist →Track 2 · 2027
Bringing music back to UK state schools, with a focus on secondary. Funded instruments, teacher training, and a partnership rail with the Lang Lang Foundation.
Music is a universal language. For neurodivergent minds it can be a superpower: therapy, self-regulation, expression, purpose. The programme launches publicly in 2027.
Quiet groundwork in progressJoin the parent community
A monthly letter from Lee. A private space for parents of neurodivergent children, including the siblings. We’re building what we wish had existed when we needed it.
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The founding family
An Advisory Council of independents (charity governance, SEND, music education, fundraising) is being assembled to sit alongside the trustees. A first independent trustee will join the board inside the first 12 months of registration.
Lee Blyth
Founder, Chair (Trustee on registration)
Nicole Blyth
Founder (Trustee on registration)
Merle Mohammed
Founder (Trustee on registration)
William Blyth
Founder Ambassador & Namesake