Patrons
Patrons are the lifeblood of the arts. Our patrons are vital to us in providing the financial support we need for the repertoire we aspire to perform and to help us raise funds for the many charities we support.
Waverley Singers’ concerts do not simply require enormous input by the choir, and by our conductor Richard Pearce, but we also need to cover the costs of engaging top-quality musicians to perform with us, hiring music and paying for the venues in which we perform.
These expenses are large and ever-increasing, and each member of the choir pays a substantial annual subscription to help defray them, but we cannot cover all our expenses without help from our supporters. Our principal financial underpinning comes from our loyal audiences who attend our concerts, buy programmes and even advertise in them. We are still, however, well short of the funds required to undertake the magnificent grand works that everyone loves to come to hear. Such works can only be performed if we have a large base of patrons who generously donate each year.
And what are the benefits of being a patron? First, advance notice of concerts and priority booking forms which enable you to reserve seats for up to four people in the position of your choice. Second, if you will donate more than £49 we are able, under current tax legislation, to give you vouchers which may be redeemed for tickets to any of our concerts.
You may also like to know that we help other charities by donating part of our ticket receipts to them. Last year we raised just under £3,000 for charities such as Hampshire and Isle of Wight Air Ambulance, St Andrews Parish Church Farnham, Help for Heroes and St Mary’s Frensham Trust.
We have just completed an ambitious 2009/2010 season performing the Brahms Requiem, and works by Tavener, Poulenc, Gardner, Howells, Haydn, Bach, Bruckner and Roxanna Panufnik. We will be raising funds for: Farnham and Alton Talking Newspapers, EFNA (The European Federation of Neurological Associations), Riding for the Disabled and Home-Start WeyWater. Will you support us, and help us to achieve our ambitions, by becoming a patron?
Please contact patrons@waverleysingers.com for more information.