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SING FOR LIFE
for Sue Ryder Thorpe Hall Hospice
Launching in September, Sing for Life will sign up 40-plus local women – women just like you – to take part in a ten-week pop-up singing project, working towards a fantastic live performance event at The Cresset this November, supporting charity partner Sue Ryder Thorpe Hall Hospice. You’ll learn to sing, meet new people, challenge yourself, perform live on stage and raise money
for Thorpe Hall Hospice... and they smashed it, giving the performance of their lives and raising almost £10k for the charity. For most of them it was their first experience of singing in public.
Raluca says “Sing for Life showed me how music and the expert guidance of a conductor can turn total strangers into a performing choir in just a few weeks. The journey from the first
for this much-loved local charity – what’s not to like?!
Absolutely no previous singing
experience is needed, just a willingness
to step outside your comfort zone, get
stuck in and give it a go... it’s all about
the journey! “Sing for Life is not about
finding the next Adele; it’s about helping ordinary women find their voice”
says William Prideaux, the project’s director. “So many people lack confidence or genuinely believe they can’t sing, but deep down just about everyone secretly has a favourite karaoke number... we promise we’ll have you singing, and loving it, in no time!”
After missing a year due to covid, last year’s project was a bumper one with over one hundred brave women signing up in September 2021, all eager to learn to sing and raise money
Sing for Life 2022 will raise the roof in aid of Sue Ryder Thorpe Hall Hospice
rehearsal until the much-anticipated concert night was an exciting adventure of finding new friends, learning songs from diverse genres, and discovering the synergy of singing in a group for a greater good!”
Reka agrees, “Sing for Life was a fantastic thing to get involved with. I got an endorphin boost every week doing what I love with like-minded,
kind people. It was great to make new friends, be part of something bigger and raise money for charity!”
Helen Kingston, Community Fundraiser
at Sue Ryder Thorpe Hall Hospice, says: “We are delighted that Sing for Life 2022 will raise the roof in aid of Sue Ryder Thorpe Hall Hospice. At Sue Ryder we believe that the end of someone’s life is the most important time of their life. Our care teams do all they can to
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