The Covid-19 pandemic highlighted the growing need for people across our communities to access the health and wellbeing, social and educational benefits of singing and music.

Our new Encore Appeal focuses on the three main strands of our work: singing workshops to bring high quality music education to schools in deprived areas; our Memory Singers work to improve the lives of people living with dementia; and empowering composition and performance workshops for children with special educational needs.

This work is more in demand than ever, and we need your help to deliver it.

Through our workshops in schools, we encourage young people to express themselves through music as part of a choir, building resilience and supporting mental health, cooperation and academic attainment.  We have been helping children and young people with special educational needs to discover their voices by creating original compositions which express their ideas, interests and experiences. In partnership with The Alzheimer’s Society, Armonico Consort has developed the UK’s first ever choir which brings together professional musicians and those living with dementia. Using music at its most powerful, this brings extraordinary results, particularly when we use our core baroque repertoire, with doctors often prescribing it rather than medicine, as it is simply more effective.

THROUGH THE ENCORE APPEAL, WE WILL ADDRESS THESE SITUATIONS HEAD ON, REVERSING THE DECLINE AND TACKLING THE NEGLECT, PROVIDING FOR THOSE IN NEED.

Generously Supported by Mr Roger Medwell MBE DL who will be giving 30p for every £1 donated, up to the first £100,000 raised.