Sing for Pleasure
Website: www.pilkingtonchoir.org.uk
The Choir was formed in 1956 as a Male Voice Choir for employees of the Pilkington (Glass) Company. When it was apparent that there were too few members for a viable male voice choir, ladies were invited to join to create a mixed choir. Over the years, membership has been widened to include singers from outside the company. We have welcomed 12 new members during the last two years making our current membership as high as anyone can remember. We are led to believe that we are the only musical organisation in the area to have increased membership so significantly, so we must be doing something right! (Former Chairman, Arthur Houghton has created his own summary of the history of the choir.)
We are still known as the "Pilkington Choir",although we have no direct links to, or financial support from, the Company. Our activities are funded entirely by our members, through subscriptions, donations from concerts and internal money generating schemes. The Pilkington Family Trust allow us the use of our rehearsal room at a very reasonable cost which does help greatly.
In the last 3 years, we have bought a large stock of music to modernise our repertoire. While we have met most of the cost from choir funds, we have been lucky enough to have received an amount of funding from the RainfordTrust for this purpose, along with their generous support for other specific requirements,including the purchase of new uniforms.
An increasingly common problem is for us to be approached to stage concerts by organisations at venues which do not have a working/ tuned piano. To make sure we can undertake these bookings, we have purchased with a generous grant from the Sefton “Community Chest”, a portable Stage Piano together with amplifier and PA System. This has proved its worth many times in the last 5 years.
We are a friendly club and are always ready to welcome new members. It is particularly pleasing that we are continuing to grow steadily in number though we would particularly welcome men to our bass section. Please come along to a rehearsal or a concert to share in our enjoyment of singing.
We are still known as the "Pilkington Choir",although we have no direct links to, or financial support from, the Company. Our activities are funded entirely by our members, through subscriptions, donations from concerts and internal money generating schemes. The Pilkington Family Trust allow us the use of our rehearsal room at a very reasonable cost which does help greatly.
In the last 3 years, we have bought a large stock of music to modernise our repertoire. While we have met most of the cost from choir funds, we have been lucky enough to have received an amount of funding from the RainfordTrust for this purpose, along with their generous support for other specific requirements,including the purchase of new uniforms.
An increasingly common problem is for us to be approached to stage concerts by organisations at venues which do not have a working/ tuned piano. To make sure we can undertake these bookings, we have purchased with a generous grant from the Sefton “Community Chest”, a portable Stage Piano together with amplifier and PA System. This has proved its worth many times in the last 5 years.
We are a friendly club and are always ready to welcome new members. It is particularly pleasing that we are continuing to grow steadily in number though we would particularly welcome men to our bass section. Please come along to a rehearsal or a concert to share in our enjoyment of singing.
The Pilkington Choir is a group of about 50 men and women who enjoy singing. We are not a traditional Choral Society but feature a varied and modern repertoire which is familiar and pleasing to audience and choir members alike.We are led by two superb musicians - Anne O'Hara, and Dorothy Parr. As they are busy musicians who play a major part in the musical life of the Town’s Music organisations, we are delighted that they choose to lead us.
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