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Barbershop news from the first ever
Barbershop Awareness Week

ABBEY BELLES CHORUS raise £63 from a raffle during Barbershop Awareness Week. They also had an excellent day culminating with a concert in Selby Abbey. This was really good fun and they ended up with 3 new members!

AVONBELLES have presented £600 to Macmillan so far. They hope to add to that when they sing Carols on the terrace of the Avon Gorge Hotel later in the year.

BEXHILL HARMONY, BEXHILL-ON-SEA - One of the ladies is a regular fund-raiser for Macmillan selling Christmas cards, gifts and cakes at chorus throughout the year and they raised £65.00.

BLACKPOOL SOUNDWAVES have made a £25 a donation from their Chorus.

BRISTOL FASHION AND ‘AFTER HOURS’ started Barbershop Awareness Week with an evening event in the Hen & Chicken Pub in Bedminster, Bristol on Saturday12th September and on Tuesday 15th September Bristol Fashion performed in Cabot Circus, the new prestigious shopping centre in Bristol and the two events raised £128.50. On 25th September they held a Big Coffee Morning in Broadmead Shopping Centre with singing, cakes, flowers and other goodies on sale and raised a total of £374.04 - making a grand total of £502.54.

BRUNEL HARMONY have sent £249 to their local Macmillan office and are also awaiting the total from another 5 unopened collecting boxes which were handed in - plus an extra £15 collected late! Their total has now been confirmed as £496.18

CAMBRIDGE CHORD COMPANY (CCC) raised funds by securing the services of vocal coaches Jeremy Fisher and Gillyanne Kayes, renowned experts in the field of voice production, to host a one-day ‘Vocal Process Course’ at Churchill College, Cambridge. In addition to the chorus, 69 guests from a wide variety of musical backgrounds and as far away as Windsor and York signed up for the stimulating day of education and exercises with the aim of improving our fundamental singing techniques. The seminar was judged a tremendous success and helped to raise £400 for Macmillan Cancer Support.

THE CHORDETTES (Teignmouth) held a raffle at their Convention dress rehearsal and collected £50.00 for the Macmillan Support Fund.

COLNE HARMONY, Colchester, raised £200. Their Chairman held a Cheese and Wine evening!

COTTON TOWN CHORUS collected £816 which has been donated to the local Macmillan representative.

DERBY BARBERSHOP HARMONY CLUB have collected £252.43 for Macmillan cancer Support at their charity efforts during Barbershop Awareness Week.

FORTH VALLEY had a joint collection with BABS chorus Rolling Hills and collected £103. This has been sent to the Edinburgh office of Macmillan together with the collection boxes.

GRAND CENTRAL CHORUS and GEM CONNECTION raised £502.25 This represents the proceeds from a combined show and also featured Monkey magic, The Jazz firm and Misdemeanour. A great Show and an excellent result.

GRANITE CITY CHORUS ABERDEEN raised £270.94 for Macmillan during awareness week.

GREATER MANCHESTER BARBERSHOP HARMONY. did a bucket Collection sing and are passing on £138.

GREEN STREET BLUES have donated £48 from collections.

HARMONY INSPIRES held a garden party in aid of the McMillan Trust. Through ticket sales, a tombola and a raffle we have raised £127.90. This has been sent to the local Macmillan office. Many cups of tea were made, cakes and sandwiches were provided and of course there was some singing.

HARMONY LINCS sang at the Waterside Shopping Centre, Lincoln on 12 September, 2009. The amount raised was £200

HUMBER BELLES raised £100 for Macmillan by holding a 'pink' rehearsal.

LACE CITY CHORUS made a collection at their Dress Rehearsal prior to going to Nashville and collected £344 which has been donated locally.

LEEDS AND BRADFORD B.H.C. raised £105.62 which has been donated locally in Wakefield.

LINCOLN SOUNDS CHORUS sang in Lincoln City Centre and collected £250, which has been handed over to the local branch of Macmillan.

LYMM BARBERSHOP CHORUS (Cheshire Chord Company) raised the grand sum of £453.00 for Macmillan Cancer Support at their "Busk" in two shopping malls in Warrington just before Christmas and managed also to get barbershop "out there" to a large number of people in the local area. They finished with a photo opportunity and managed to get into the local press too, with a link to Macmillan.

MERSEY HARMONY (LABBS) raised a total of £381.86 at a garden party and a coffee morning organised by two of their members and a singing workshop organised by the chorus.

MIXED 4TUNES QUARTET FROM WELWYN HARMONY LADIES CHORUS (LABBS) joined singers from the Harpenden Kings of Herts Chorus (BABS) on pub crawls around St Albans and Harpenden during Barbershop in Harmony week, raising hundreds of pounds for Macmillan Cancer Support and gaining prospective new Chorus members and bookings. On Saturday 14 November, Welwyn Harmony Chorus and The Kings of Herts Chorus will sing in a show being organised by The Kings of Hearts Chorus at The Harpenden Public Hall, Herts, to raise money for Macmillan. See www.welwynharmony.co.uk and www.kingsofherts.co.uk

NORTH SURREY BHC earned £250 at a sing-out during Barbershop Awareness Week.

OCEAN HARMONY have sent a cheque for £40, from their club collecting box.

PLYMOUTH MAYFLOWER Chorus joined with BRUNEL HARMONY (LABBS) and WESTERN APPROACH (BABS) choruses to run joint events over a fortnight. Carousel Quartet, and a scratch octet, who all sing with The Mayflowers, visited unisex salons, and two quartets of men from The PILGRIMAIRES and Western Approach toured barbers’ shops, entertaining staff and some very surprised customers. Other events included a public workshop day, and even had our Deputy Lord Mayor joining in. Potential members were recruited from the workshop, and over the week a total of £233 was raised for MacMillan Cancer Support, which made it all worthwhile.

QUAYSIDERS, DORSET donated £25.00 from their funds (they already do an enormous amount for their local charities and were fully involved with them so unable to do a particular fund-raiser for Macmillan).

READING BARBERETTES member, Geraldine Stewart, held a coffee morning and raised £293. 2 Palladium tickets were re-sold and the money donated by Joy Needham - £30

RED ROSETTES, Preston, collected £51.28 from singing for one hour at the local Sainsbury's Supermarket.

RIVER CITY CHORUS will donate any profit form their singing workshop in November and/or send a donation from the club. Their MD Valerie Harvey was interviewed and recordings of the chorus singing were broadcast on Radio Devon on the Vic Morgan late show. Great publicity for Barbershop Awareness Week!

SHEFFIELD HARMONY LADIES BARBERSHOP CHORUS have sent a contribution of £113 towards the Macmillan fund.

SOMERSET HILLS CHORUS (Sweet Adelines) from Taunton Somerset donated the proceeds of their September sing out - £75 - to their local Macmillan organisation directly.

SOUNDS OF THREE SPIRES, BELLES OF THREE SPIRES & SILVER LINING (The Coventry & Warwickshire Combined Barbershop Clubs) have so far raised £3160. This comes from singing in the City Centre, a tombola stall in the market, Singing in the park and a quartet pub.

SOUTHDOWN LADIES HARMONY fundraising for Macmillan was from a 6 week Learn to Sing course, with a raffle and donations came to a total of £200.

SPINNAKER have donated £353.70, raised from their Barbershop Awareness evening held in aid of Macmillan Cancer support.

TEES VALLEY B.H.C. staged a concert to promote National Barbershop Awareness Week and to raise funds in support of Macmillan Cancer Support. The event raised a total of £700 in ticket sales and donations.

TELFORDAIRES have donated £100 for Macmillan

THAMES VALLEY CHORUS presented a unique evening of Lights & Music in aid of Macmillan Cancer Support. The evening produced a profit of £2,500 plus Gift Aid. A profit of £340 was made from a raffle organised by Paula Groves; the prize was one of her sculptures. Donations and pledges on the night amounted to approx. £3,500.00

TUDOR ROSES held a "Green and White Night - What a Delight" where they dressed in Macmillan's colours. They also held a raffle and coffee evening and raised £100.00. This was donated locally.

VELVET HARMONY, BROMLEY (LABBS) raised £150.00 at a coffee morning organised by one of their members in her home.

WESSEX HARMONY (LABBS) appeared on a Concert organised by SOUTHERN UNION (BABS) and together they sent a donation of £450.00 to Macmillan Cancer Support, as well as a donation to their local Mayor's charity fund.

WIGHT HARMONY BARBERSHOP SINGERS sent a cheque for £221.57, being the total collected and donated by members of Wight harmony during their recent Barbershop Awareness Week.

WINDSOR A CAPPELLA have donated £200 and their Treasurer, Jim Downing and his wife, Mo, added another cheque from themselves for £20

THE LONDON PALLADIUM SHOW bucket collection and the Covent Garden Barbershop Busk raised a grand total of £1170.00. Thanks to everyone involved - particularly the ladies from Crystal Chords and Marion Morley and her daughter Lisa.

Here's a letter we received from Sandie Helm from Harmony InSpires after the London Palladium Show

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