Hi, My name is Anastasia and I am the founder and director of Songs for Recovery, a charity event raising money for BEAT, the UKs leading Eating Disorder charity. I'm a musical theatre student currently studying on the Foundation at Laine Theatre arts after having graduated the BTEC at Emil Dale Academy, but most importantly I'm a recovered anorexic.

After a particularly difficult period in 2024, I was hospitalised for my anorexia in the summer. During last year, I was stopped from dancing at college due to my health and it broke me. Having to sit and watch my peers in a class that I so desperately wanted to join in with was the worse pain I've ever gone through, and although I can look back now and realise it was a necessary measure to keep me alive, I hated everyone that had stopped me from doing what I love. Hospital was so hard, but through persistance, hard work and many tears, I did it and have never looked back. Recovery is the best thing that has ever happened to me and I am a completely different person now. I have my confidence, happiness, light and laughter back and it's truly so special.

During this time, there was one thing that got me through this and that was music.

Sitting and listening to my classmates sing in performance class, listening to music in ballet and blasting music in hospital appointments made me realise that I needed to recover if I wanted to have a chance as a performer in this industry. Now it's time to give back to the community that saved my life in hospital last year. I have gathered some of the most stunning voices I have ever heard from Emil Dale Academy to volunteer and sing, supporting me and this charity that changes so many lives, but I can’t do this alone.

After lots of people asking me, this GoFundMe is now a page for people who can’t attend the concert but would still like to be able to donate to our cause!

Any donations would be so SO appreciated and you’d be helping me give back to the people that saved my life. 1.25 million people in the UK are living with Eating Disorders, we can’t let this illness win.

Anastasia ♥️