Year: 2024

Earlier this year we donated £3000 to “The Happiness Project” at The King’s Lodge neurological rehabilitation unit.  The Happiness Project uses an interactive projection system to help cognitive behavioural recovery, encouraging coordination, mental and physical exercise and social activity in a fun way – making recovery a more positive and enjoyable experience.  The photograph shows Allanah and Jen demonstrating one of the many activities – a leaf-sweeping game – to three of our members, Joy, Kath & David, watched by Jill Matthews, Chief Officer of Derby & Burton Hospitals Charity.  Jill said “The money raised by the choir  for this unit is helping both speed patient’s recovery and improve their well-being. Donations of all kinds help to make a difference to the care we can provide.”  (Photograph courtesy of Derby & Burton Hospitals Charity.)

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Following our concert in December 2023, we have been able to donate £3000 to King’s Lodge Neurological Rehabilitation Unit (in the Florence Nightingale Hospital) and £500 to Art in Hospital at the Derby and Burton Hospitals Trust. The £3000 will be used to fund The Happiness Project – providing software that facilitates customised treatments for patients at King’s Lodge.

This is a great result and the committee would like to thank everyone who supported the concert, and of course our members who put in all that singing practice!

You can listen to how we sounded by clicking on the links below:

• De Virgin Mary
• Pachelbel’s Canon
• You Raise Me Up
• The Rose
• Nature Carol
• Come Emmanuel
• Love Changes Everything
• Candlelight Carol
• Les Miserables
• All is Well
• Let it Snow

A Happy New Year and big thank you to all those who helped put on another great concert. With around 60 in the choir and 250 in the audience, St. Alkmund’s was almost full but still comfortable. The committee will be meeting soon to review how much we can give to our selected beneficiaries (King’s Lodge Neurological Rehabilitation & Art in Hospital) and I will let you know the result here before the end of January. I have heard many positive comments from the audience about the concert, and choir members can be pleased with how well it went. We will also let you know about this year’s programme – particularly the AGM, rehearsal and Christmas Concert dates.

I hope to have Benoit’s sound recordings available later this month too. In the meantime, here are a few photos taken by Benoit….

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