Everybody Let'S Sing
Charity 1148121
Alvechurchcommunitychoir.org.uk
Overview
Summary
Everybody Let'S Sing appears to use music as a shared civic practice rather than solely as a performance activity. Its work links professionally supported music-making for children and young people with an open-access community choir and outreach, suggesting a model that connects education, participation and public cultural life. The available evidence points to an organisation seeking broad access across generations, while retaining the flexibility to support other charitable purposes through grants and donations.
Operational geography
Coverage: Neighbourhood
Operational areas:
Evidence and reasoning
Supporting evidence
Remaining uncertainties
- Direct evidence identifies the charity's main activity as Alvechurch Community Choir, with regular rehearsals at Alvechurch Village Hall or The Crown Inn, Withybed Green. Alvechurch is outside the Birmingham City Council ward geography supplied, so no Birmingham operational area can be evidenced from the available material.
- The charity reports outreach in local care homes, community settings, schools and with young people, but does not name current outreach venues, schools, care homes, partner organisations or their locations. It is therefore not possible to establish whether any current outreach is within Birmingham.
- The organisation says it draws members from 'throughout the area' and collaborates with other choirs and musicians, but this indicates a wider catchment or occasional connections rather than evidenced service delivery in Birmingham.
- The neighbourhood coverage classification is a reasonable interpretation of the organisation's stated main activity and recurring Alvechurch rehearsal base, rather than evidence of a formal geographic boundary.
Additional evidence needed
- A current programme, calendar or annual report naming performance, workshop, school and outreach locations.
- Confirmation from Everybody Let's Sing of any current Birmingham-based services, venues, schools, care homes or delivery partners.
- Current evidence of material partnerships that host or extend the choir's activity into Birmingham.
Areas of work
- Arts/culture/heritage/science
- Education/training
Who they help
- Children/young People
- Other Defined Groups
- The General Public/mankind
How they help
- Provides Services
Discoveries involving this organisation
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Observations
Music is positioned as both education and participation
The organisation appears to combine structured learning with opportunities for people to participate in music collectively. Professional musicians may provide specialist input, while the community choir creates a continuing route into shared cultural activity.
Why it matters
This suggests its role may extend beyond delivering isolated workshops or concerts: it may help build confidence, musical capability and ongoing local participation.
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“Organising and providing musical activities for schools and young people with professional musicians”
Source:Organisation“Running an open access community choir including outreach work and performances”
Source:Organisation“TO ADVANCE, IMPROVE, DEVELOP AND MAINTAIN PUBLIC EDUCATION IN, AND APPRECIATION OF, THE ART AND SCIENCE OF MUSIC IN ALL ITS ASPECTS”
Source:Charity Commission
Open access may be a deliberate inclusion mechanism
Describing the choir as open access, alongside outreach work, may indicate an intention to reduce barriers to participation rather than serving only established singers or formal music learners.
Why it matters
This distinguishes the organisation from a conventional membership choir and raises useful questions about which communities outreach is intended to reach and which barriers it addresses.
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“Running an open access community choir including outreach work and performances”
Source:Organisation“Children/young People, Other Defined Groups, The General Public/mankind”
Source:Charity Commission
The organisation has a broader charitable mandate than its visible activity suggests
Although current activities focus on music provision, the objects allow trustees to make grants and donations for other charitable purposes. This may give the organisation capacity to support partners or respond to needs beyond direct delivery.
Why it matters
Its potential civic role may include enabling others, not only running its own programmes. Whether this flexibility is used is an important unanswered question.
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“TO FURTHER SUCH CHARITABLE PURPOSE OR PURPOSES AS THE TRUSTEES IN THEIR ABSOLUTE DISCRETION SHALL THINK FIT BUT IN PARTICULAR THROUGH THE MAKING OF GRANTS AND DONATIONS.”
Source:Charity Commission“Provides Services”
Source:Charity Commission
- Whether school activities and the community choir form connected participant pathways.
- Which groups outreach reaches, and whether access barriers such as cost, transport or confidence are addressed.
- Whether the organisation uses its grant-making power in practice.
Remaining uncertainties
- Programme details showing locations, frequency, participant numbers and referral or progression routes.
- Information on outreach partners, participant demographics, fees and accessibility arrangements.
- Annual reports or accounts showing grants, donations, funding sources and delivery partnerships.
Additional evidence needed
Charity Commission profile
Activities
Organising and providing musical activities for schools and young people with professional musicians Running an open access community choir including outreach work and performances
Charity objects
THE OBJECTS OF THE SOCIETY SHALL BE: 1. TO ADVANCE, IMPROVE, DEVELOP AND MAINTAIN PUBLIC EDUCATION IN, AND APPRECIATION OF, THE ART AND SCIENCE OF MUSIC IN ALL ITS ASPECTS BY ANY MEANS THE TRUSTEES SEE FIT, INCLUDING THROUGH THE PRESENTATION OF PUBLIC CONCERTS AND RECITALS; 2. TO FURTHER SUCH CHARITABLE PURPOSE OR PURPOSES AS THE TRUSTEES IN THEIR ABSOLUTE DISCRETION SHALL THINK FIT BUT IN PARTICULAR THROUGH THE MAKING OF GRANTS AND DONATIONS. [AS PER THE MODEL CONSTITUTION OF "MAKING MUSIC"]