3H Holidays funded!

We are delighted to have supported the work of 3H Helping Hands for Holidays - a charity founded 40 years ago which helps physically disabled people to enjoy much needed holidays.

WYE VILLAGE HALL REFURBISHMENT COMPLETED!

Dear Colin, I am pleased to report that the project to refurbish the pavilion is substantially complete.  Once the rest of the village hall had benefitted from our major expansion and refurbishment programme (which you generously assisted), the derelict pavilion was even more of an eyesore.  The new pavilion has drawn favourable comments both for the improvements to the aesthetics of the Village Hall and recreation area, and for the added amenity it offers.  The pavilion is now a comfortable community space with views across the recreation ground and woodland, and bookings are already picking up: this includes a new Youth Club which replaces the one which regrettably closed down a few years ago. The Village Hall Management Committee would like to thank the Cantiacorum Foundation for its generous support, which is recognised on the Benefactors Board as photographed. Best regards, David Reece

Canterbury Voices visit Kenya!

I thought I would just let you know that the Canterbury Voices trip to Kenya was a real success and everything worked even better than anticipated. Our stay at the Cooperative University of Kenya was a real treat and we had the opportunity to experience a taste of life at a Kenyan university. We performed at a large scale community event in Nairobi with the Glory Voices and a local children’s choir before travelling out to Kabarak University in the Great Rift Valley for two performances at the Kenya Music Festival where we also met many inspirational musicians and students and saw some fabulous singing and dancing. We also spent a memorable day in the National park and the choir officially adopted an orphan elephant! We are aiming to return at some point to work with children in a local school and have established links with an organisation which invites musicians and music students to work with disadvantaged children in a Nairobi children's home. I have more images if you would like them for your publicity? I cannot thank you and all at Cantiacorum enough for your support in making this fabulous trip possible for the Voices - we are all so very grateful. Please do let us know if there is anything we can help with or do (we are always available for performances etc) as we would very much like to be able to support the work of Cantiacorum. In other choir news... our fund raiser event at the Shirley Hall in March raised more than £2000 for the scholarship fund and we are able to provide some support for 6 young female musicians. We are planning several find raising events for the coming year so that next year we can hopefully help more to achieve their goals in music. Thank you again for your support which is invaluable in helping to provide such fantastic opportunities for the choir members. Best wishes Kerry