From humble beginnings in 1908 fund-raising for other organisations has always been at the core of the choir’s activities and it is an explicit aim in the choir constitution.
The overwhelming majority of our concerts are held for this purpose and a considerable but unrecorded amount has been raised on behalf of good causes ranging from small local organisations to established national and international charities.
Royal National Lifeboat Institute 1999
Since the choir first took its traditional Festival Concert into the city of Nottingham in April 1973, charities have benefited from these annual showpieces to the tune of more than £40,000. In this respect, we are proud to include among our beneficiaries the Multiple Sclerosis Society, Cystic Fibrosis Research, Leukaemia Research, the Muscular Dystrophy Campaign, Epilepsy Action, the Parkinson’s Disease Society, the British Heart Foundation, the Mapperley Hospital Wheels Appeal, Nottinghamshire Hospice, the Howard Crabtree Child Brain Scanner,the Queen’s Medical Centre Neo Natal Department, Nottingham City Hospital Arthritis Appeal, National Asthma Campaign, Victim Support, MacMillan Cancer Support, the Dyspraxia Foundation, Abbeyfield Nottingham Society Trust, the RNLI, Rainbows Children’s Hospice, the Association for Spina Bifida and Hydrocephalus, Childline, Charcot Marie Tooth Organisation, Prostate Cancer Charity, Lincolnshire and Nottinghamshire Air Ambulance, the Myotonic Dystrophy Support Group and the Colonel’s Fund of the Grenadier Guards.
Drug Abuse Resistance Education 2008
In addition, in 2005 the choir staged a concert at Southwell Minster to raise £2000 for Tsunami Relief Funds, while in 2008 it celebrated its 100th birthday with a Centenary Concert which enabled us to donate £12,324 to the important anti-drugs charity D.A.R.E. (Drug Abuse Resistance Education).
If you belong to or know of an organisation that might be interested in considering a ‘Carlton Concert’ to help boost funds, just take a look at the ‘Book Us’ page and please get in touch!
