Ed Sheeran's guitar funds a school's music centre!

Here is Ed Sheeran with Northern Ireland-based guitar-maker George Lowden, they created this guitar for his album =

Thanks to one of Ed Sheeran's guitars, a primary school in Suffolk has raised enough money to open a music centre!

The guitar raised more than £50,000 in a charity raffle.

Ed is from Suffolk where the school and music centre are located.

The guitar was made by an expert for Ed to use on his latest album = "Equals" and raised a huge £52,765 for the music centre.

Children from the school have said the new building has been filled with artwork and is a "really beautiful place to relax".

'A privilege'

Pupils at the school said the new modern building was a privilege to be able to use

Another pupil said: "It's such a privilege to have our own music space for our school and there are many thanks for Ed Sheeran and all his team."

This is the new music centre its been named the SRH Music Ark

Head teacher Helen Picton added: "All our children, they can go in there, they can be calm, they can be excited, they can be inspirational, but they can start to heal after the pandemic we've been through.

"We have a music pod that is open to all to our neuro-divergent children, we have a disabled toilet so we can have disabled facilities for the children."

Who actually won the guitar?

Here you can see Kellie, her husband and Jacob and Henry holding the guitar with Ed's special message on!

Ed's guitar was raffled off by a charity called GeeWhizz and its winner was hospital worker Kellie Myers, from Ipswich - who bought her ticket for £5!

Ed wrote a message on the guitar for her two sons, Henry who is 14 and Jacob who is 13.

He signed it and wrote: "Henry + Jacob! Play this guitar!"

Kellie says her boys were thrilled and delighted and the whole family loves Ed.