Please
click on the links below to find out more about:
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Our charitable status, and how we are organized
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Our committee members
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Our subscriptions
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Other charities that we support
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Our annual reports and accounts.
The members of the Queens Park
Singers mostly live near
The principal raison d'etre
is to provide the opportunity for local people to join together to make music
without the need to go further afield. Since we often have a string orchestra
taking part in our concerts, we provide this opportunity both for singers and
for string players. There is also a junior choir, Queens Park Junior Singers:
this is intended to go some way towards filling the gap left by the current
lamentable state of music in schools, and also to ensure that there will be a
new generation of singers to join the adult choir.
We have held workshops -- called Singings in the early days --
presented concerts and taken part in church services at the church where we usually
rehearse - follow the links to see details of music we have performed.
You will find that our repertoire is almost
entirely from the classical choral tradition, from the 12th century
to our own times, with occasional excursions into folk song and songs from the
shows. No world music or tangos yet!
We have almost always rehearsed and
presented concerts at the church of St Anne and St Andrew, 125 Salusbury Road,
NW6 (location map here). The church is part of a new Inter-faith centre,
built in 1997 (website here); the
whole building has a very welcoming and friendly atmosphere and has all the
facilities needed, including disabled access. The church itself has excellent
acoustics for rehearsal purposes, and makes an ideal, albeit quite small, venue
for concerts.
The choir is a member of Making Music (the
National Federation of Music Societies) and is also a Registered Charity
(1094265). Please see our entries on the websites run by the Charity
Commission and by Guidestar. We
have a proper constitution (slightly amended at the AGM on
