Jessie’s Fund was fortunate to have the late, great Victoria Wood as our Patron for 17 years. Along with her millions of fans, we miss her enormously. She totally engaged with what we do, she understood it, and she was generous with her time and support. She made a huge difference to Jessie’s...
A concert to celebrate the life of Alan Hacker OBE took place in Winchester Cathedral on 30th September, raising well over £1,000 for Jessie’s Fund. Alan was a ground-breaking clarinettist and conductor who inspired a generation of composers and pioneered historically appropriate performance of classical music. He would have been...
Booking is now open for our popular two-day Making Music with Special Children courses: we’ll be in London on 8th and 9th November, and in York on 12th and 13th November. For more details about the course, and a booking form, click here. Here’s a taste of what people have...
We are delighted to have been chosen by Ann Acaster, the President of the Association of Inner Wheel Clubs in Great Britain and Ireland 2018-19, as the Association President’s Charity of the Year, and we look forward to working in partnership with her. Inner Wheel is an International women’s organisation founded...
Camerata Sonora is a brand new, exciting vocal group coming together for their first performance this week. With just eight experienced singers, the concert includes music by Parry, Stanford and Elgar and takes place at 7.30pm on Sunday 21st October, in St Chad’s Church, Knavesmire, York. Tickets are only £5...
The European Rush Convention is supporting Jessie’s Fund for a third year running with Rush Eucon 2018, having raised over £3,000 for us in 2016 and 2017. The convention takes place on 28th and 29th September at The Box, in Crewe, starting at 8pm on the Friday and 1pm on...
Recordsville Social has supported Jessie’s Fund this year with a number of events, the last one being on Saturday 21 July. ‘It’s All Pop’ brought 60s Indie Pop, Northern Soul, New Wave, Bubblegum, and Disco to The Olde Kings Arms, Congleton, CW12 1BN. Altogether their events have raised £1,193 for...
Midday Music at the Abbey Church August 6th – 31st, 12:00 – 12:30pm Abbey Church, High Street, North Berwick, EH39 4HE A varied programme of music and song takes place every day at Abbey Church from 6th-31st August (except Sundays), 12 noon – 12.30pm. The first week of this series...
Utako Ikeda was a wonderful flute player, teacher, and a close friend of Jessie’s family. She was also a loyal supporter of Jessie’s Fund, and would be pleased to think that the concert in her memory on Saturday 7th July was in aid of Jessie’s Fund, and played by colleague...
Philip Olleson and friends from Nottingham and further afield are meeting on the weekend of 21-22 July for a workshop to rehearse and perform two of the finest and best-loved works of the string orchestra repertoire: Dvorak’s Serenade for Strings in E and Richard Strauss’s Metamorphosen for 23 solo strings....
