Charities Supported

In 2002, the Orchestra Committee decided to enlist the support of the Pilgrims Hospices in East Kent for our Christmas concert.  Realising that this very worthy charity have an enormous following locally, it was felt that we could work together to hopefully bring a lot more people to our concert, at the same time, raising much needed funds for the charity.

This proved to be an enormous success and it is now the tradition that we aim to support a selected charity at most of our concerts.  The result has been that the orchestra has benefited by having increased audiences, thereby gaining more interest in the orchestra and having people who will come again and hopefully give us more regular support.

In return, the charities that we have supported have all benefited from this partnership with donations that we have been able to raise for them. The above picture shows John & Deni Bateson, Chairman & Concert Manager for FHOS, handing over a cheque to Steve Auty, Chief Executive of the Hospice, for the sum of £2,500.

All of the charities we that we have so far supported are listed below:

• Pilgrims Hospices in East Kent
• Paula Carr Diabetic Trust
• Demelza House Children’s Hospice
• South East Kent Royal National Lifeboat Institution
• Meningitis Trust
• St John Ambulance Association
• Kent Air Ambulance Trust
• Macmillan Cancer Relief
• Ashford and Shepway Branch of the Alzheimer’s Society
• King’s Silver Lining Appeal
• St. Dunstan's

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