It is a not-for-profit organization which aims to improve the lives of children in war-torn countries through participation in Music.
Their mission is to "redress psychosocial trauma, advance emotional health, develop scholastic achievement, foster ethnic tolerance, promote peace, and improve the quality of life for war-affected children and adolescents through the establishment of on-going music education and performance programs.
The Kosovo branch is helping children recover from the trauma of the ethnic cleansing that Serbian forces undertook in 1998.
[2][3] The SMF is helping children in Northern Ireland, where segregation of Protestants and Catholics has torn apart communities.
Groups have sprung up all over the world to benefit the Shropshire Music Foundation (which is run entirely off donations).