Ed Sheeran plans major shift for up and coming musicians

Ed Sheeran is reportedly launching his own charity foundation in order to help the emerging musicians.

The 33-year-old singer, as revealed by an insider to The Sun, set up The Ed Sheeran Foundation which aims at getting others into the music business.

Sheeran, who according to The Irish Times has fortune of at least $200 million, registered the charity foundation with the Charity Commission in October.

The insiders dished out that the charity would give grants to individuals and organisations, along with advice and help for budding musicians.”

They further dished out that the Shape Of You hitmaker enlisted “RCA music executive Stacey Tang as well as his manager Stuart Camp, Def Jam co-president Alex Boateng and his business manager Will Ashurst as trustees” to help run the charity.

This is not the first time for the singer-songwriter to launch a charitable endeavour. In 2019, he launched the Ed Sheeran Suffolk Music Foundation to help artists under 18.

Its website states, “The Ed Sheeran Suffolk Music Foundation is a charitable music foundation which aims to help young people under the age of 18, and living in Suffolk (UK), with small but useful grants to help with studying or playing music.”

The charity’s “grants could be used for almost anything, such as buying an instrument”, or funding one’s music studies, or paying for rehearsal space.