Altnagelvin Hospital Choir

Classical choir

Charity Fundraising Activity

The Choir registered with the Charity Commission of Northern Ireland on 17th February 2016 and has full Charitable Status, reference NIC103144 and HMRC Reference NI00494.  Our registered information can be checked on the Charity Commission of NI site.

This year’s charity

Our nominated charity for 2024-2025 is The Macular Society. Funds raised will help support people affected by visual loss due to Macular Degeneration. This Charity has helped some of our own members, so we really appreciate its work. You can click on this link to find out more about its local work : Macular Society Northern Ireland. You may not know that our hospital is one of the two NHS NI centres for managing this condition.

Charity donations

Our records go back to 1996 and, as of October 2024, we can confirm that we have raised and donated over £44,000 to 28 individual charities.

In 2024, we donated £3,000 to Life After RTA, a local charity who support families and loved ones of those who have lost their lives on our roads. In the photograph below are shown Marie O’Brien (Vice Chair, Life After), Neil Black (Choir Committee Chair), Maureen Neely (Choir Committee), Lesley Mitchell (Choir Treasurer), Paddy McEvoy (Choir President), Christopher Sherrard (Founder/Secretary, Life After) and Jim Kelley (Choir Committee) in the Altnagelvin Hospital Foyer on Wednesday 19 June 2024.

In 2022-2023, we donated £1000 to St Eugene’s Cathedral Organ Scholars’ Fund and £2000 to Kevin Bell Repatriation Trust.

Jim Kelley, Vicky Quinn, Teresa Sweidan, Lesley Mitchell, Maureen Neely and Eithne and Colin Bell from Kevin Bell Repatriation Trust, in Altnagelvin Hospital Foyer, August 2023

  • Paul McGarvey (2nd left), Elaine McCracken (5th left) and Jim Kelley (6th left) present to Friends of Spruce House in 2016

2016 Hospital choir donation towards care of patients with brain injuries and neuro-disabilities

Neil Black (back left) and Maureen Neely (back right) present to Altnagelvin Hospital Renal Unit in 2015

2015 Altnagelvin Renal Unit ‘on song’ with hospital choir’s cash 

We are happy to receive nominations from any member of the public or choir member for our charity of the year.  You can nominate by using our Contact Us Page.  This is a list of charities we have supported to date: