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Rising Voices Wessex, Community Choirs

Community Choirs For People Affected By Cancer, Rising Voices Wessex

Country
England & Wales
Charity number
1165053
Status
Registered
Registered
Jan. 5, 2016
Legal form
Other
Area of benefit
Dorset, Hampshire And Wiltshire

Address

Address
12 Ashley Drive North
Ashley Heath
RINGWOOD
Hampshire
BH24 2JN

Activities

Rising Voices Wessex is a community choir based in Dorset for people affected by cancer. Singing helps people to regain their confidence and improves their health and wellbeing. The choir provides support and encouragement; aiding recovery through singing. Together, we make music that matters. Whether we're pitch perfect or delightfully off beat, we sing with our hearts and that's a real gift.

Objects: 3.1 Rising Voices Wessex Has Been Established To Promote The Good Health And Wellbeing Of People Living With Or Affected By Cancer For The Public Benefit In Particular But Not Exclusively By:- Providing And Promoting Music Participation Through Singing As A Means Of Regaining Confidence, Health And Wellbeing To Complement Rehabilitation During And Following Treatment For Cancer; - Providing Support To Families And Carers Of People Living With Or Affected By Cancer; - Improving Public Awareness Regarding The Problems And Circumstances Of People Living With And Beyond Cancer As Well As Their Families And Carers Through Information And Education; - Seeking To "normalise" Post-Cancer Living By Making Available Support Through Singing In The Community; - Fostering Mutual Help, Co-Operation And Friendship In An Understanding And Empathetic Environment For Those Affected By Cancer; - Making Appropriate Representations To Relevant Statutory Bodies And Other Organisations On Behalf Of People Affected By Cancer; - Promoting, Conducting, And Engaging In Research/evaluation As To The Benefits Of Music And Singing To Those Affected By Cancer (publishing The Useful Results Of Which For The Public Benefit); And- Promoting A Strategy That Supports The Development Of Other Choirs Within The Wessex Region (covering Mainly Dorset,hampshire And Wiltshire) And Forges Appropriate Musical And Cultural Links With Other Like-Minded Choirs.

Classification

How
Provides Services, Acts As An Umbrella Or Resource Body, Other Charitable Activities
What
General Charitable Purposes, The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives, Arts/culture/heritage/science, Recreation
Who
Elderly/old People, People With Disabilities, The General Public/mankind

Areas of operation

Local Authority
Bournemouth, Dorset, Hampshire, Poole

Finances

Period end Income Expenditure
March 31, 2025 £24,721 £21,084
March 31, 2024 £30,981 £26,411
March 31, 2023 £28,606 £29,245
March 31, 2022 £25,266 £26,482
March 31, 2021 £29,602 £23,746

Trustees

Name Appointed
Noeline Anne Young (Chair) Jan. 8, 2013
Ian Roberts Oct. 12, 2023
Robert Taylor Jan. 1, 2017
Sarah Margarete Schwetje-Kemp May 24, 2021