St John’s Singers - Carol Williams

With no person brave enough to come forward and volunteer to play for us, we have continued to sing unaccompanied during our motet slots.

Unfortunately our lovely Julia Sheffield was unavailable to play for us at the Carol Service this year as it clashed with St Martin’s Service, so we bravely decided to perform unaccompanied at that event too!

Singing unaccompanied is in fact very good vocal discipline (or so I tell everyone!).

The singers worked hard during the year, not only learning new pieces for Easter and Christmas, but also for our Sunday morning slot. Without a pianist we rely in my one fingered (often inaccurate) accompaniment at rehearsals, so my thanks to them all for bearing with me!

As always we will be delighted to see new members – we rehearse once a fortnight, for one hour, so it is not too arduous. Why not pop along one Friday and give it a try? The list of rehearsal dates is at the back of Church in case anyone is interested!

To prove it’s not all work and no play, we all enjoyed our annual meal out at Uxbridge Golf Course early in the year.

Finally a big thank you to the Singers for turning out regularly in good weather and in bad!

Social Committee - Peter Hughes

Another quiet year within the Social Group owing to other activities within the church which has forced the group to cancel a number of events. If you are arranging an event can you let me know the dates in advance please, so we don’t clash.

Our Quiz evenings with fish and chip supper are well supported. The Quiz evening which will be held on the last Saturday of the Festival 2008 will have a twist to it!!

We organised the Christmas Fair which was a success. The entertainment was of a high standard once again, Joyce Butler School of Dance and Tony’s Friday Jazz Group. Even though it was Santa’s busy time of the year, he made time to come and see us all.