Choir donates to hospital

Bolsterstone Male Voice Choir’s golf day at Stocksbridge Golf Club on Friday raised £2,500 for the Children’s Hospital in Sheffield.

CHORAL FUNDRAISER: Choir chairman Mick Siddall presents cheques to Anna Jenkins with choir MD Dan Timmins and the choir applauding

Photo: Harold Norton

The event was organised by choir top tenor Brian Pigott who started the fund-raiser 27 years ago and has been the driving force behind the event ever since. Dransfield Properties made a donation for the prizes and local businesses gave support including the choir’s main sponsor, Bradfield Brewery, Sheffield Mutual, GenFab and Stocksbridge Co-op.

The choir, conducted by Daniel Timmins and accompanied by Kim Kaye, gave a concert in the evening to say thank you to the club for its long-standing support. Golf club official and former choir chairman Frank Milnes conducted an auction.

Choir chairman and golf club member Mick Siddall presented cheques of £1,250 each to Anna Jenkins, consultant oncologist at the Children’s Hospital, to go to the Oncology Department and the helipad appeal. Anna is the daughter of choir top tenor Huw Jenkins.

Thanks for their support in making the day a success were given to golf club professional Roger Broad, Liana O’Sullivan, Frank Milnes, Alf Pearson, and Pat Rowe.

First prize for the best golfers went to A Jowitt’s four; second to S Murphy’s four; third to I Batty’s four; nearest pin, C Dale and T Priest; and nearest line, H Boothroyd.

Golf club president John Yeates thanked the choir for its performance saying:: “It’s by far the best we’ve heard you sing here in the club”.

The choir sang at the opening of the Bolsterstone Village Fayre the next afternoon and were amazed and delighted to have their singing briefly drowned out by the magnificent sound and sight of a low-flying Lancaster bomber from RAF Coningsby in Lincolnshire on its way to an event in Derbyshire.