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