Foundation grant gets special concert off the ground

17 January, 2014

A grant of £575 from City Health Care Partnership Foundation, the charitable arm of City Health Care Partnership CIC, is helping to fund a special concert in Beverley.

Bands ‘The Unknown’ and ‘Little Venice’ were formed from music at The Camden Society for People with Learning Disabilities. They are made up of people with learning disabilities supported by professional musicians and will be singing and playing in ‘Hope and Magic’ at Toll Gavel Church, Beverley on 19 April at 7pm.

The concert will also feature local young talent Nikki Airey and Leven Primary School and Josh Wolfsohn from Swindon.

Denise Delahay set up the charity Music Lives to help stage the concert, and says the grant from CHCP Foundation has made a big difference. ‘We think this is going to be a wonderful event and we’re really excited at the prospect of seeing bands like The Unknown and Little Venice in Beverley.

‘We’ll be opening up the rehearsal time in the afternoon before the concert for anyone to drop in and meet me, Andrew (the bands’ founder) and Debbie, a music therapist from charity MusicAlive, whose performers use innovative musical technology to circumvent disabilities.

‘Although the professional musicians are giving their time for free, it’s still really expensive to put on an event like this and we are so grateful to the CHCP Foundation for their generosity.’

Denise Anderton, chair of the CHCP Foundation, said, ‘This is a great example of how, through our charity, we are putting something back into the community. Over 65% of our profits are reinvested into our local area and it’s really encouraging to see what a difference this can make.’

Tickets for Hope and Magic are £10 (£8 concessions) and are available from the Beverley Information Centre. For more information about the concert email denise-delahay@hotmail.co.uk.

For more information about the work of CHCP Foundation, go to http://chcpfoundation.chcpcic.org.uk/