Charity partners

At every one of our Royal Albert Hall concerts The Really Big Chorus works with a partner charity which benefits exclusively from the sale of programmes, sales of their own merchandise and programme advertising.  Amounts raised vary from £3,000 to £18,000 at each concert. Our singers and audiences have probably raised over a quarter of a million pounds since the first Messiah from Scratch in 1974.

Over the years we have helped to raise money for the Alzheimer’s Society, the Children’s Society, CLIC Sargent, Combat Stress, Great Ormond Street Hospital for Sick Children, Leukaemia Research, National Autistic Society,  NSPCC, Royal London Society for the Blind, St John Ambulance, and WaterAid.

Our most long-standing partner, working with us for more than three decades, is the British Heart Foundation. The Really Big Chorus has supported this charity annually at Messiah from Scratch® since the early 1980s. In February 2010, Don and Ann Monro accepted, on behalf of TRBC, a ‘Heart Hero’ award from the BHF in recognition of our support over so many years. We were nominated for a similar award in 2025.

We are now proud to have The Royal Society of Musicians as our partner for Messiah from Scratch®.  The Society – the UK’ oldest musical charity – has a long association with Messiah and its composer, Handel, who was a founder- member back in the 18th century.

For our trips abroad we seek out a local charity to support through collections taken at our performances. This can be as much as £1,000 from each concert, a sum which often has far greater value when converted into the local currency than it would do in the UK. Charities include the Children in Danger Foundation (Prague) and Nazareth House (Cape Town).

 

 

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