A concert featuring a choir made up of people with different disabilities has raised over £250 for charity.

Over 30 men and women with learning disabilities, physical impairments and people who are visually impaired sang to raise cash for Waltham Forest Disability Resource Centre.

The event, which took place on Friday, September 23, in St Saviour’s Church in Markhouse Road, Walthamstow, also saw the Coop Bank pledge a donation of £1,000 for the centre’s new lunch club.

The weekly club provides a meal and entertainment for disabled elderly people at the centre in Crownfield Road, Leytonstone.

Manager Peri Stanley said singing as a group in the Going Choral Inclusive Community Choir has helped the participants gain confidence.

She said: “There are all sorts of physical and psychological benefits of singing in a group.

“The people in the choir feel they have grown in confidence and it is great for people who wouldn’t be able to sing on their own.”

The resource centre provides educational and sporting activities to disabled adults and the choir was set up last February after a grant of £11,828 from the Postcode Lottery Trust was received.