Wyndham Singers | Charities we Support

Wyndham Singers 2024

Charities

The Wyndham Singers select a local charity every year, and a condition of the charity's selection is
that the funds raised must be spent locally or benefit local people.

UK Registered Charity No. 297798

This year we are supporting HOSPISCARE

The charities we have supported over the past years include - Marie Curie, Macmillan Nurses,
Force, Childrens Hospice, Brain Wave, Vranch House, Multiple Sclerosis, Dementia UK,
Headway, Hospiscare, Sense, CHAT and Exeter Leukaemia Fund (ELF).

We have raised over £150,000 since we began in 2003 with our own and joint concerts.

Funds Raised

Thank you for supporting us - and local charities

A heartfelt thanks to all of you who supported our recent concerts. We are delighted to share with you the amounts raised.

2024

Saturday 20th April - our joint concert with The Stuart Singers from Gloucestershire in St Andrew's Church, Cullompton raised a magnificent £2,200 for Hospiscare

Sunday 14th July - as guests of The Friends of St Mary's Church Hemyock we raised £352 for Hospiscare

2023

Wednesday 20th December - we sang in Exeter Cathedral as the guest choir in support of Hospiscare's Light Up A Life Christmas Memorial Service at 6.45pm, and this raised £1800 for Hospiscare

Monday 4th December - we sang in St. Andrew's Church, Cullompton to honour our former colleague, Bob Hooper, in the service to celebrate his wonderful and full life.

In November with Soul of the City Gospel Choir and the lovely soprano, Freya, we raised £2,000 for the Karen Action Group - a magnificent effort!
www.karenactiongroup.org.uk

At the end of September our singing in Willand Church Hall, plus a poet, a young tenor and a cream tea has produced another £793 to go to Hospiscare

Our singing at the Uffculme Show & Country Fayre netted another £152.52 for Hospiscare, our chosen charity this year

Our concert with Wellington Silver Band at St John the Baptist Church, Wellington, on Saturday 15th April, raised £783 for the Earthquake Appeal to provide assistance to those affected in southern Turkey and northern Syria.

The Three Choirs Concert with DyNaMix Rock-Pop Choir, the St David's Church Choir and the Wyndham Singers, held at St David's Church Exeter on Saturday 22nd April, raised £1100 for our charity Hospiscare, with close to £700 raised for St David's Church Repair and Transformation Project.

Our joint concert with Blackdown Acapella on 4th July as part of the Cullompton Summer Arts Festival raised just under £300 for Hospiscare on a wet and windy evening with a small audience

These are fantastic amounts of much-needed funding going to well deserving charities - we are so grateful for your support and hope to see you again soon.