A community choir from St. Ives in Cambridgeshire is raising vital funds for blood cancer charity Anthony Nolan. The choir is holding a concert on Saturday 4th October at 7.30 in The Free Church, Market Hill, St. Ives, with hopes to raise £300 for Anthony Nolan’s lifesaving work.
Choir members decided to hold the event because their Musical Director, Hazel Terry, heard a talk about the amazing work which Anthony Nolan does at her school. As a result she registered to become a potential donor and hopes now that the concert will both promote the charity & raise vital funds.
The choir members are really pleased to be supporting a charity which does such valuable work and are busy rehearsing every Monday evening in the lead up to their October concert of songs from such popular composers as Andrew Lloyd-Webber, Supertramp and Simon & Garfunkel.
Tickets for this fundraising event are available from The Free Church shop: Just Sharing and at the door on the night priced £5 & £2.50 for children. There will be refreshments and a raffle to raise even more towards saving lives.
Nancy Gray, Community Coordinator at Anthony Nolan, said: ‘The fundraising that St. Ives Community Choir is doing makes such a big difference to people with blood cancer. It costs £100 to recruit each person to the Anthony Nolan register, so fund raising is a vital part of our lifesaving work.
The more fundraising we do, the more potential donors we can recruit onto the bone marrow register, and the more lives we can save.’
If you would like to know more about the event organised by St Ives Community Choir then please get in touch with them directly on st-ivescommunitychoir@hotmail.com
If your choir or group would like to raise funds for Anthony Nolan through your events then please get in touch with the Community Team to find out how we can support you on community@anthonynolan.org or 0303 303 3002- we’d love to talk to you!