Love2Sing Choir- Find time to enjoy! By Hannah Sterling LPGS

Everybody gets stressed at some point. Everybody gets caught up in their own bubble. It’s awfully rare for the majority of us to find space and time to simply abandon our bustling lives. We all need our own therapeutic breather, something to help us relax and come back down to earth. For a lot of people in the West Wickham/ Beckenham area this is through the joy of singing; groups of people from all ages and gender come together and enjoy their Monday afternoons, alongside or away from their families, to break free and enjoy some hours of space and release energy through coming together and letting loose for an enjoyable sing-song session. 

Love2SingUk are a London based company who organise and run these choir clubs across the capital. They help local communities by giving people the opportunity to get out the house for a few hours, meet other people who live in the area and to perform at local events. 

Recently the West Wickham group were lucky enough to bring out a CD featuring the choir’s covers of fantastic songs like “Fix you” by Coldplay and “Someone like you” by Adele as well as many others. Not to mention they raised a whopping £1942.48 for Cancer Research UK. Personally, I think it is such a wonderful thing to have in the local area as it, not only provides others with a place to practice their hobby and socialise, they can also raise money for charity by doing something they love. 

A member of the choir said the following “The Choir I go to, Holly (the instructor) is fun with a good sense of humour. You feel good after leaving. We do a mixture of songs. When starting a new song, sometimes it’s hard to imagine it all coming together and getting the harmonies right, but we do. You don’t feel shy or self-conscious because we all sing together, and no one has to do a solo unless they want to (if it’s ever needed.) Holly also does a kids choir during the week.”

What we should all take and consider from organisations like this, is what I said in the very beginning. It’s very hard to spare a moment in the week to enjoy yourself and enjoy life. We all need to find our own idiosyncrasies and pursue them because really you only live once so you might as well have fun whenever you possibly can.

Love2SingUk-Find time to enjoy! by Hannah Sterling.