Charities

Charities Supported by the Choir

2023

2022

Disasters Emergency Committee – Ukraine

Marys Meals

Penicuik Foodshare – Food, Facts, Friends

2020/2021 – Covid

2019 Goboti Village Forestry and Agricultural Project. This concert supported the City of Edinburgh Methodist Church project in Goboti. The final piece of work for Friends of Goboti (Scottish Charity No: SCO37618) which has been for the last 19 years, funding much needed infrastructure in the village of Goboti which lies in South Africa’s Eastern Cape in one of the poorest areas of the country. Donations go directly to the village leaders, who are supported and led by Rev. Gcobani Vika, Methodist minister and son of the village.

2018 Action for Children – A charity supporting the work of The Gilmerton Road Short Breaks Service. Action for Children offers a residential short break service to children and young people with learning disabilities.

2017 Smalls for All – Scottish charity providing underwear to help women and children in Africa. Charity No. SCO41689

2017 Edinburgh Methodist Church Project “UNDER THE MANGO TREE” helping to build a new classroom in Mombassa, Kenya

2016 IWORK4ME

2015 Edinburgh Direct Aid – Syrian Refugee Crisis

2015 Christian Aid

2015 The Mongolian ‘Go Help’ Charity – providing converted Land Rovers as Ambulances

2015 Mary’s Meals

2014 The Disaster Emergency Committee – Ebola Appeal

2014 Freedom from Fistula Foundation

2014 St. Columba’s Hospice – ‘Forget-me-not Appeal’ to enable the creation of gardens for the new hospice building

2014 Fresh Start – the charity working to end homelessness in the Lothians

2013 Peeblesshire Youth Trust

2013 Love Russia

2012 St.Mungo’s Parish Church – Organ fund

2012 Kenya Childrens Home

2011 Old High Church, Inverness – Church Organ appeal

2011 Mercy Ships – 25th Anniversary Concert

2011 Fodderty & Strathpeffer Parish Church Lighting Fund

2011 Christian Aid – (Joseph & the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat)

2010 The Raven Trust

2009 The Vine Trust

2009 Mary’s Meals

2009 Gavin Marshall’s Pilgrimage for Water for Zambia

2008 Crossreach – Simpson House

2007 St. Columba’s Hospice

2007 Christian Aid

2006 Hearing Dogs – West Linton Rotary

2005 Waverley Care