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News update Feb 2013
5th Feb 2013
We are very excited to announce that following the 'Waiting for Christmas' project run across Suffolk and beyond during Autumn/Winter 2012,
we have now raised £50,000 for Tearfund.
Below are the key facts from the 2012 project:
- £50,000 raised for Tearfund
- 3000 children recorded and filmed singing for the CD & DVD
- 1800 children performed at the concerts
- 5000 people attended concerts
- 80 schools participated
- 10,000 primary children saw the project assemblies given to in schools across Suffolk
- 4000 CDs and DVDs sold
- 10 concerts performed with 18 piece live band, dancers, soloists, sketches & 200 strong children’s choir
- 16 places across Suffolk and in Malawi featured in location filming during summer and autumn 2012
- 150 ‘extras’ and 34 children featured on location video filming across Suffolk
- 7 large-scale children’s recording and filming sessions held across Suffolk (plus other areas & Malawi)
- 120 Stewards helped at the recording sessions & concerts
- 200 teachers attended the recording sessions & concerts
- 20 studio musicians, 30 studio core vocalists, 9 adult & 11 child soloists performed on CD & DVD
- 15 dancers & 21 actors performed on the DVD and on stage at the concerts
- 40+ strong technical and support team involved in the recording & filming sessions and the concerts
- 10 new songs written specially for project
- 500 viewings of the final 3 concerts streamed live on the internet
- CD & DVD also features children from Chimadzimadzi Primary, Jasi Village, Malawi, recorded and filmed on a Tearfund visit to Malawi by some of the project team
- Each concert evening featured a live interview with Eagles (Tearfund partner) in Malawi
BBC Radio suffolk CD Launch
listen to the CD launch on Radio Suffolk on 24th November 2012
Welcome
‘Waiting for Christmas’ is the seventh in a series of Primary School Christmas Music Projects in aid of Tearfund. Over the last 18 years an experienced and enthusiastic team from Christians Churches in Suffolk have run a series of Schools Charity Christmas Music projects. These projects have involved a large number of children at Primary and Junior Schools across Suffolk singing on a CD and DVD and at concerts. As well as raising almost £100,000 for the charity Tearfund, there has been a fantastic reaction to the projects from those involved. Children, teachers and parents alike have enjoyed the projects and Ofsted inspectors have loved them!
‘Waiting for Christmas’ first took place in Autumn 2012 across mcuh of Suffolk and further afield. It provided a great opportunity for children in the schools involved to participate in a professional musical recording, filming and live concerts. The project is going to be run in other areas across trhe UK in subsequent years - watch this space for details
The key aims of the project are:
• To provide a creative focus of resources for schools leading up to Christmas
• To provide a unifying project for children at primary/junior schools in the area
• To raise awareness of issues of poverty and injustice
• To raise money for charity, particularly for third world children through Tearfund
• To help strengthen links between local Churches and Schools
• To help convey the message of Christmas in a fun way
A massive thank you to all who helped make the Waiting for Christmas premiere in 2012 such a success - we will be anouncing the amount raised in early 2013 so watch this space!
In the mean time, do look at the other pages, including the WFC live tab which links to videos of some of the concerts from December 2012