Chris's Yorkshire 3 Peaks page

Chris Jolly is raising money for Milton Keynes Youth Choir
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Yorkshire 3 Peaks · 11 June 2022

MKYC was founded in 1997 with a grant from the National Lottery and originally shared its Musical Director, John Gibbons, with the Milton Keynes Chorale. They operate as a charity and rely on help from parents to run the choir and provide taxi services for their singers. They are an auditioned choir for upper voices age 8 to 18. Craig McLeish has been MD for the choir since 2010 and the choir derives great benefit from his teaching, conducting, arranging and composing. Singers come from a wide area round Milton Keynes (they attend many different schools – amongst our current membership we include a couple of home-schooled singers, as well as singers from local primary and secondary schools and a few from independent schools outside MK). About half of the singers play instruments, so have experience reading music. Craig, therefore, does a mixture of teaching by ear and learning from the music, giving the non-instrumentalists an opportunity to learn to read scores and develop sight-singing skills. The choir rehearses for an hour a week during term time. They aim to perform at least one concert in the Autumn and in the Summer terms, take part in festivals during the Spring term. We aim to set subs at an affordable rate for parents/carers, so our weekly income does not cover our costs and we rely on fundraising to remain viable and to pay for new music, concerts and festival entries.

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Thanks for taking the time to visit my JustGiving page.

I have been helping run the Milton Keynes Youth Choir ever since Chloe joined 3 years ago. To help as many children as possible enjoy the benefits of singing together, we aim keep the membership costs low and fill the gap with fundraising and grants.

There are many different costs we need to fund from the Musical Director and Pianist, through to Hall Hire, Music Books and Events.

To help a little bit towards this, I am joining in the Yorkshire Three Peaks Challenge which is a 24 mile trek covering three mountains to try and raise some money. Please help if you can as this is a great cause.

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