The Come and Sing session led by David Lawrence on Saturday 29th March has been much acclaimed and to prove that you were there DL has kindly provided some photos :

Depending on your financial activity, the Charity Commissioners may require a very full report on your activities as well as full financial disclosure. Due to a temporary uplift in our income this has been applied to us and the full document is attached below for your information.

A Happy New Year to you all and a reminder that we will be restarting rehearsals on Wednesday the 8^th of January 2025 to prepare for our Haydn’s Creation concert on April the 12^th. If you have your own copy of this score then please bring it along with you and if not then please arrive a little early so that scores can be sorted out.

Also connected with this work is another date for your diary. We will be holding a Singing Day led by David Lawrence on Saturday the 29^th of March and we look forward to exploring the Creation with one of Britain’s leading choral trainers.

Our first rehearsal of the 2024/25 season will take place on Wednesday 4th September 2024 at 7.30 p.m. in Sunderland Minster. After some singing, our AGM will be held and the Agenda, previous minutes and annual accounts are available below for you to read/download before the meeting.

Please try and be at the Minster a little earlier so that scores can be organised ready for a prompt rehearsal start. If you have your own copy of a Watkins Shaw edition of Messiah it would be helpful if you could bring that with you.

Wednesday the 4^th September 2024 is the date you need in your diary to ensure that you are with us for the first rehearsal of the new season.

Please try and be at the Minster a little earlier so that scores can be organised ready for a prompt rehearsal start. The necessary AGM will take place a little later in the evening after some singing. If you have your own copy of a Watkins Shaw edition of Messiah it would be very helpful if you could bring that with you.

Papers for the AGM will be circulated nearer the time but until then we hope that you enjoy your summer.

The Annual General Meeting of the Society – and the first rehearsal of our 75th Season – will take place on Wednesday 6th September 2023, starting at 7.30 p.m. in Sunderland Minster. Please attend promptly so that new scores can be organised.

The Agenda, previous minutes and annual accounts are available to read/download below to enable you to consider them before the meeting.

There will no rehearsals on the following dates :

Wednesday 22^nd March

Wednesday 29^th March

Wednesday 5^th April

Wednesday 12^th April

Hope that you enjoy Easter and look forward to seeing everyone on our return on Wednesday 19^th April 2023. It would be very helpful if you arrive a little early on the 19^th to enable scores for the new work to be distributed.