Category: Community
Walking Football Session
What does walking football have to do with singing? Quite a lot, actually. Both bring people together, reduce loneliness, improve mental wellbeing, build confidence and create a real sense of belonging. You don’t need to be an expert to take part, just willing to give it a go. Whether you’re singing your heart out or…
£1500 raised by Sing in the City members during our World Cup Party week
Of course we supported Scotland at the World Cup but more than that, we had a fundraiser and all the money going to our newly rebranded and named CIC sister company Hanley and the Baird Dreampot. We baked cakes, had a cuppa and played football games all week and yes we selected heat wave week…
Hanley and the Baird Dreampot free art, dance and singing lessons
Hanley and the Baird were delighted to deliver the first of the fantastic DreamPot Sessions, delivering a series of engaging workshops in singing, dance, and creative expression. The sessions brought together people of all ages and abilities, providing a welcoming space where participants could explore their creativity, build confidence, and develop new skills through the…
Kirsty Baird visits EATS Rosyth for a Remember When singalong
In March 2026 we had a return visit to EATS Rosyth. Kirsty Baird took a guitar and a microphone and half a dozen Sing in the City volunteers for a Remember When Singalong. Singing songs from the 50s and 60s and encouraging others to sing along with her while they all chatted and shared stories…
£3000 going to 10 members chosen charities Christmas 2025
Everyone has their favourite charities that they like to support and for Christmas 2025 we did our usual Cake Bake rehearsals. Our members bake (amazingly well) and all the money at all our choirs raised that night is for charity. This year we made £2600 and our very own Dreampot charity account took this up…
£2166 donated to NHS Lothian
In November 2025 Denise and Ana visited the Western General Hospital in Edinburgh to hand over a cheque collected by Sing in the City. We raised this money at our 3 sell out Usher Hall shows on October the 4th where we invited our special guests Angus from Skipinnish and some of our piper and…
Over £3000 worth of pet food donated to the Edinburgh Cat and Dog home
When the cat and dog home announced that they were running short of food for their pet food bank, Aw Black and staff members Lesley Day asked if we could help. So we put out a call to action, anyone wanting to donate some cat or dog food please bring something to choir. Members did…
£200 donated to the Scottish Wildlife Trust
Sometimes we just donate money to charity for the sake of it. Who doesn’t like animals and want them to be safe and well? Scottish Wildlife trust is Scotland’s leading nature conservation charity, established in 1964 to protect Scotland’s wildlife and restore ecosystems. It manages over 100 wildlife reserves (covering >17,000 hectares), champions conservation policy,…
Remember When singalong sessions
We started our Music in the Community project in 2023. Our carehome visits with our Remember When singalong sessions were part of that. We provided one a month free of charge and plan to do 2 a month in 2024 all funded by our sister CIC (Community Interest Company) Chief Radio. It’s not a concert,…
Sing in the City singing for Cancer Research
Having busked twice in the summer Sing in the City were in the mood to busk more. So when Cancer Research asked us to get involved in their Shine Night walk of course we said yes. We love a random event and standing in the cold and the dark at the foot of Arthur Seat…
Care Home Singalong
Kirsty Baird our Director has taken choirs to sing in care homes many times however, this new community project see her taking a small group of around 5 members and a guitar and she provides the singalong. This way nobody has to just sit and listen, the focus is on the residents taking part in…
Remember When, Dementia Choir
Our sister company Chief Radio is going to be raising money to start a Dementia / Alzheimers choir and what ever we raise, up to our target Creative Scotland will match. 1 in 3 people born in the UK this year will develop dementia in their lifetime. There are 944,000 people with dementia in the…
Sing in the City Pensioners Party 2022
Our first pensioners party since the pandemic took place 25th November 2022. We had 60 guests from 6 carehomes come to a local church and we provide food and drink and singing and dancing and of course a game of bingo. Volunteers from Sing in the City came to help and took roles that included…
Sing in the City and Chief Radio Daunder for Cancer Research UK
This April Cancer Research UK organise their virtual Race for life. Can you help us support them? We encouraged our members to set their own distance and Daunder. While they daundered they could raise money and think and remember people who had lost their cancer challenge and also support those going through it right now.…
Quarantine did not stop us singing or giving
We will be sending a cheque for £5900 to SAMH in the next couple of weeks. This money was raised during COVID19 quarantine when Sing in the City members, friend and family not only put the Hanley and the Baird Follow the Rainbows single at the No.3 position in the Scottish charts but also put…
We have raised over £100,000 for charity and community
We reached that magical number! This has to be one of the things we are most proud of. It is a really big deal and a really big number to reach. The business and the members have donated large amounts of money to our Sing in the City Dreampot and this then gets donated to…
Sing in the City raised over £5k for the Brain Tumour charity
Around 60 members of Sing in the City signed up to walk in the Twilight walk on Sunday 7th October. It was a 10k walk around Edinburgh and the weather was pretty miserable however, they all had a great day walking, chatting, meeting new friends and socialising with old friends. Some members walked and remembered…
£400 donated to Fairway Fife take grand total to over £93k
We collected £369 at our Sing in the City Cloud 9 show on Friday 7th September. We always have a random object in the bucket and this show it was an elastic band. Our Sing in the City Dreampot took the amount up to £400 and this will be getting sent out to Fairway…
