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LSC Friends and LSC Patrons

LSC American Friends

Legacies

Companies

Trusts and Foundations

Your support is vital

Donations from individuals and companies are very important to the Chorus and contribute significantly to our future.  Your donation will help us to achieve excellence in performance, develop choral singing and choral music, and involve others in the community.

Current and past funders of the LSC’s work include the Garrick Charitable Trust, LSC Endowment Fund, Rothschild Charities Committee, LSC Friends, individual and legacy donors.  We have raised significant sums in the past and are now looking to raise almost £40,000 per year so the choral development programme and LSO Sing continue to flourish.

If you are thinking of making a donation, please consider joining one of our membership schemes:

• LSC Friends
• LSC Patrons
• LSC American Friends
• Legacies
• Companies
• Trusts and Foundations

Get involved and donate today

You can play a key role in helping to ensure the Chorus continues to perform at the highest level, whilst also helping to:

• engage new audiences for established and new choral music
• develop innovative outreach projects which encourage people to take part in singing
• involve others in the wider community
• support the musical development of the chorus

 Your donations at work

£2,500       supports vocal coaching of 25 members
£1,500       supports an open singing day at LSO St Luke’s
£1,000       supports vocal coaching of 10 members
£500          funds the hiring of vocal scores for a new commission
£50-£100  helps support a new concert recording

If you are a UK taxpayer, you can increase the value of your donation at no extra cost to you, allowing us to claim tax relief through the Gift Aid Scheme. Higher-rate taxpayers can also reclaim additional personal tax relief.

Cheques can be made out to London Symphony Chorus

To make a donation, or for further information on how you can enjoy a close involvement with us, please email sponsorship@lsc.org.uk or write to:

Mrs Gillian Ryman, LSC Appeal Office, 2 Wicks Green, Binfield, Bracknell RG42 5NX

Join LSC Friends or become an LSC Patron

LSC Friends and Patrons have helped to fund a performance of Brahms: German Requiem with Simon Halsey and two- piano accompaniment, LSO St Luke’s 2013 and a recording of Elgar: Spirit of England with John Wilson and the Philharmonia Orchestra, SOMM Records 2014

We would like to involve you in the life of the London Symphony Chorus to thank you for your gift.  LSC Friends and Patrons are

• acknowledged in our programmes and newsletters
• kept informed about our concerts, events and ticket offers
• encouraged to contribute to the Chorus e-newsletter
• invited to experience the “behind the scenes”
• meet us at special rehearsals, events and social gatherings at our concerts

LSC Friends are asked to give £50 each year, but smaller and larger donations are also very welcome.

LSC Patrons give substantial financial help and support to the chorus and are asked to give £1,000 or more each year.  If they wish, they can ask to support a specific project or area of our development and outreach work.  Should there be a particular area of work you would be interested in supporting, please contact us to discuss.

If you are a UK taxpayer, you can increase the value of your donation at no extra cost to you, allowing us to claim tax relief through the Gift Aid Scheme. Higher-rate taxpayers can also reclaim additional personal tax relief.

Cheques can be made out to: London Symphony Chorus

If you would like to discuss becoming an LSC Friend or LSC Patron, please contact Maggie Owen by email at friends@lsc.org.uk or telephone 07790 103598.

Please return your completed application and gift aid declaration to:

Maggie Owen, LSC Friends, 41 Tantallon Road, London SW12 8DF

Join LSC American Friends

The American Friends of the London Symphony Chorus have always enjoyed a close relationship with the chorus, and have generously supported our visits to New York with the LSO, and to Denver, and commissioned Quotes by Nora Kroll-Rosenbaum in 2006 and Songs of Immortality by Eric Whitacre in 2010.

In 2011, our performances in New York with the LSO of Beethoven: Missa Solemnis with Sir Colin Davis, and Britten: War Requiem with Gianandrea Noseda attracted standing ovations and glowing reviews.  Anthony Tommasini of the NY Times wrote: “The chorus filled the resounding sustained harmonies with full bodied but never forced sound, and the music flowed in broad sweeps and spacious arcs.”  Alex Ross of the New Yorker wrote: “Noseda marshaled the finest War Requiem that I have heard.”

By joining the American Friends you will support our forthcoming tours to the United States and our role as cultural ambassadors.

The American Friends of the London Symphony Chorus is an independent non-profit corporation with tax-exempt status under section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code. Donations are tax- deductible as and to the extent permitted under applicable law.

If you are from the United States, whether living there or in the UK, and would like to find out more, please contact John Marks at john.marks2@ntlworld.com

Leave a Legacy to the LSC

Legacies can help the Chorus in many ways, and support its development and outreach work.  Please consider helping us when making or updating your will.

A legacy can also be left to a specific project such as:

• Endowing the post of Chorus Director or Deputy Chorus Director
• Sponsoring a concert in someone’s memory
• Commissioning new choral music
• Supporting the Chorus’s outreach programme

Bequests can be made directly to the London Symphony Chorus (registered charity number 272866) to support our work.  They are an effective way of reducing inheritance tax and can be for a specified sum of money or a proportion of your residuary estate.  If you have already made a will you can add a codicil to make an addition or change.

If you would like to discuss leaving a legacy to the London Symphony Chorus, please contact us by email at sponsorship@lsc.org.uk or telephone Owen Hanmer on 07961 101 9437

Support us as a Corporate Partner

The London Symphony Chorus is one of London’s internationally acclaimed cultural institutions.  We would like to build a mutually beneficial relationship between your company and the LSC, in the UK and around the world.

We can provide a tailored package to suit your company’s needs, and can offer event profiling and hospitality at our own concert promotions, employee involvement, and address your concerns for Corporate Social Responsibility in our community programme LSO Sing

• Client hospitality through concert sponsorship
• Opportunities to meet our distinguished conductors and chorus director
• Private recitals at your corporate headquarters
• Discounted tickets for our own concert promotions for your employees
• An opportunity for employees to take part in our open rehearsals, singing days and outreach programme
• An opportunity for you and your employees to attend rehearsals and become involved in the work of the Chorus
• An opportunity for you to address your concerns for Corporate Social Responsibility by helping us to involve others in the community and make a real difference to musical appreciation and enjoyment
• Tickets and complimentary programmes for some of our London concerts
• Acknowledgement in our concert programmes for some 15 – 20 concerts each year, reaching a large audience

If you would like further information please contact us by email at sponsorship@lsc.org.uk or telephone Owen Hanmer on 07961 101 943.

Charitable Trusts and Foundations

We are now seeking help from Charitable Trusts and Foundations to provide support for our work in achieving excellence, developing choral music and singing, and involving others in the community.

• Choral development: Our commitment to excellence
• LSO Sing: Singing opportunities for people of all ages

If you would like further information or wish to discuss, please contact us by e-mail on sponsorship@lsc.org.uk