Editing Andrew Lloyd Webber (section)

==Charity==
[[File:"Paddington Lloyd Webbear" Paddington Bear, China Town - geograph.org.uk - 4245753.jpg|thumb|upright|Lloyd Webber's ''Cats''-themed [[Paddington Bear]] statue in London, auctioned to raise funds for the [[NSPCC]]]]
Lloyd Webber is involved in a number of charitable activities, including the [[Elton John AIDS Foundation]], [[Nordoff-Robbins music therapy#United Kingdom|Nordoff Robbins]], [[Prostate Cancer UK]] and [[War Child (charity)|War Child]].<ref>{{cite news |last=Body |first=Jamie |title=LW Theatres partners with War Child to support children in conflict zones |url=https://www.thestage.co.uk/news/lw-theatres-partners-with-war-child-to-support-children-in-conflict-zones |work=The Stage |date=15 December 2022 |access-date=23 November 2023}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last=Kennedy |first=Maev |title=Andrew Lloyd Webber gives away £31.5m from Picasso sale |url=https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2011/may/19/andrew-lloyd-webber-pablo-picasso |work=The Guardian |date=19 May 2011 |access-date=23 November 2023}}</ref> In 1992, he started the Andrew Lloyd Webber Foundation which supports the arts, culture, and heritage of the UK.<ref name="foundation"/>

In 2013, the Andrew Lloyd Webber Programme was launched to aid the Music in Secondary Schools Trust (MiSST), which aims to give every child at participating schools across the UK the opportunity to study a musical instrument as part of the curriculum.<ref name="Scheme">{{cite news |title=The transformative free musical instrument scheme that Andrew Lloyd Webber wants in every secondary school |url=https://www.classicfm.com/music-news/free-musical-instrument-scheme-school/ |access-date=23 November 2023 |publisher=Classic FM}}</ref> He told [[LBC]]: "What music does in these schools, isn't actually necessarily about trying to make the children musicians. But what it does, is it really helps them as people."<ref name="Scheme"/>

In 2014, Lloyd Webber designed a ''Cats''-themed [[Paddington Bear]] statue, which was located in [[Chinatown, London|Chinatown]], London (one of 50 placed around London), with the statues auctioned to raise funds for the [[National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children]] (NSPCC).<ref>{{cite news |title=Why Paddington Bear Statues Have Taken Over London |url=https://www.cntraveler.com/galleries/2014-11-24/paddington-bear-statues-taken-over-london-david-beckham-benedict-cumberbatch |access-date=10 June 2022 |work=Condé Nast}}</ref>