Thank you to everyone who donated to our Match it! Fundraising Appeal
in support of the various fundraising ideas over the last three months. As
a result of your generosity, an incredible £4,064 has been raised for the
choir (taking into account JustGiving’s fees and Gift Aid).
In addition, One Community’s Match it! programme will provide ‘Match
Funding’ of £3,000.
We could not have done it without you!
Thank you to our four volunteers Carole Hepworth, Roger Wild, Chris Rogers and Chris Flanagan for taking part in our ‘Slim to Win’ sponsored diet fundraiser. The group lost an impressive combined total of 49lbs over an 11-week period! Thanks to everyone who has already donated. Your generosity has helped raise £280! For those who still wish to donate, you can do so via our JustGiving Campaign Page (please see below) which will remain open until midnight on 31 January 2021. Individuals may be sponsored at either £1 per pound (up to a maximum of 14lbs) or a fixed amount.
Happy New Year everyone! It was great to be back in rehearsal again this week and it was so good to see everyone. We certainly didn’t think we would still be online by now, but we are and we are still learning. It’s important we keep our voices in trim for when we get back to face to face rehearsals. We are really looking forward to seeing our audiences again and with some of our members already receiving the vaccine, hopefully it won’t be too long. We have just started a piece we first sang in 1995, so for some it is nice to revisit it, but for many it is a completely new piece. We can’t wait to share what we have been doing with you too. Finally, there is still time to donate to our choir Just Giving page, so do check it out. The deadline to receive matched funding is the end of January.
Here is the link https://www.justgiving.com/campaign/matchit2020
Thank You!
Thank you to everyone who has donated via our JustGiving Campaign Page
in support of the various fundraising ideas.
Remember One Community will match our online fundraising efforts from 1
November 2020 to 31 January 2021 up to a capped amount of £3,000. In
order to qualify for Match Funding, all donations should be made via our
JustGiving Campaign Page. A link to which can be found below:
https://www.justgiving.com/campaign/matchit2020
As always, thank you for your ongoing support. It is greatly appreciated and if you wish to donate, then please do! Thank you!
What will Christmas bring
If we’re not allowed to sing?
Will it just pass away
Like another winter day!
Will we have no Christmas Party
For our group so hale and hearty?
Should we feel sadness in our room
Or have a Virtual Meet on Zoom?
Steven can pick the songs
And we’ll all party on
But he should make the Zoom Call last a while
So we can do it all in style
“Unmute” say I
Let’s get the spirits high
Sing out and all feel free
It’s Christmas – can’t you see!
Let’s look forward one and all
We could really have a ball
Drinking Prosecco, wine or whisky
Might just even get us frisky
We can meet in costume guise
In a virtual paradise
And have lots of fun and share
If we will only dare
We’ve done so much this year
But let’s not shed a tear
About hope and aspirations
We’ll succeed – no hesitation!
(Thanks to Phil Kirkpatrick)
It was so lovely to welcome everyone to the Ladies Circle Virtual Coffee Morning yesterday. An opportunity to share a moment of Christmas with all of our members and to raise money too! It was such a lovely relaxed and joyous occasion….and with some very nice cakes to be auctioned too. Thanks to Carole and Denise!
We would like to say a massive ‘thank-you’ to all that purchased tickets
for our Lucky Squares Christmas Raffle. The live draw took place and the congratulations to all our winners.
·1st prize – A painting by our resident artist Renee Wild – *121 GRAHAM
Smith*
·2nd prize – A £60 Grappolo Restaurant (Lockwood) Voucher – *43 Brian &
Denise Winterbottom*
·3rd prize – A Christmas Hamper from Taylors Food Store (Honley) – *31
Ceri Davies*
·4th prize – A Bottle of Champagne – *111 Phil Kirkpatrick*
·5th prize – A Bottle of Courvoisier VSOP Cognac – *112 Matt & Jane Greaves*
·6th prize – A £10 Bolster Moor Farm Shop (Golcar) Voucher – *209 Ronnie
Rawlins*
·7th prize – A Copy of Tony Gibson’s ‘Punz & Poemz’ Booklet – *14 David
Harrison*
·8th prize – A £10 Bolster Moor Farm Shop (Golcar) Voucher – *107 Pim Milner*
We can confirm the raffle raised £478 which, once doubled by One
Community’s Match It! Fund (due February 2021) will generate £956 for
the choir! Thank to all our supporters!
The Ladies Circle Virtual Coffee Morning, for Choir, family, friends and Patrons, is only 2 weeks away.
All monies raised will be the Ladies Circle donation to the Choir for
this year.
We will be using the Choir’s “Just Giving” page for donations which this year due to the ‘Match-It’ fund doubles every penny raised.
We aim to make it a fun, relaxed morning, with a chance to chat with
people we haven’t seen for a long time, hear the premiere of the Choir’s
new virtual recording, bid for cake in the cake auction and test your
knowledge in a Quiz. Also, the winners of the Lucky Squares Christmas Raffle will be announced.
Do join us as it will be lovely to see you all again.
If you are unable to join, but wish to make a donation we would be more
than grateful.
Keep safe and well and, hopefully, see you at the Coffee Morning. For more information mail us at info@honleymvc.co.uk
We are delighted to announce that we have been chosen to benefit as a Co-op Local Community Fund.
At a time when funds for community groups and charitable organisations are becoming more difficult to access, we are incredibly grateful for this opportunity to make a real difference in Huddersfield and its environs.
We are raising funds for our post Covid-19 preparations such as extra rehearsals (due to social distancing), a free concert for our community (once permitted to do so) and associated technology requirements.
This award will not only provide valuable support to the Choir, by contributing to physical and mental wellbeing, health and social life of the singing membership, but will also enable the Choir to meet its overall charitable aims and objectives of extending its community involvement, thereby benefitting the wider local community.
To help us raise vital funds, we’ll be relying on Co-op Members. When a member buys selected branded products and services, the Co-op will give a helping hand to local causes like ours.
Co-op members can select us as their local cause by visiting:
https://membership.coop.co.uk/causes/51177
We really hope that people will visit the website and select us as their local cause.
It was terrific to welcome representatives from Fairfield School, our charity of the year to our zoom rehearsal on Tuesday to formally announce that the recent ‘Performathon’ raised just over £1800 for the school. Both the Head and Business Manager were delighted with the donation and thanked the choir for their continued support!
It was a real pleasure to welcome the Head of Engagement & Operations of the NHS Help Them Help Us charity to our rehearsal on Tuesday. Providing for the welfare & wellbeing of NHS staff on the frontline during the COVID-19 pandemic. We were able to formally inform them of our Performathon donation which totalled £2979.94. Thank you to everyone who supported us!
