Warwick Rotarians have been encouraged to get singing for their health and wellbeing by Jeremy Dibb, Research and Delivery lead for Warwick - a Singing Town.

Jeremy Dibb is known to the club as the former Director of Warwickshire Music which brings together the local schools for the Warwick Rotary Club 'Midsummer Schools Concert' at St Mary's Church every June.

Following his retirement in 2019 he started his project to get the whole of Warwick singing.

Warwick - A Singing Town has three main aims: to encourage singing in education, in health and in the community.

The project aims to celebrate the joy of singing and for singing to be part of the artistic and cultural post-pandemic renewal in Warwick.

There are already 12 community organisations working alongside Warwick - A Singing Town including the folk festival, St Mary's choir, and Armonico Consort which runs the Warwick Memory Singers for people living with dementia.

Jeremy and his colleagues have been working in schools supporting teachers to get children to sing.

In the community he is establishing workshops for local residents. 'Sing for Joy' is starting at Chase Meadow Community Centre, and on May 1 there will be a concert for Ukraine to raise funds.

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King Henry's Endowed Trust has earmarked three years of funding to support the project aiming for Warwick to be the first "singing town" and they hope to arrange a choral pageant of all the groups in 2023.

The project is supported by the Warwick Independent Schools Foundation.

Thanking Jeremy for his presentation Rotarian Laurie Day said "we are all singing from the same songsheet" and admired his work to get kids from all backgrounds enjoying music.

President Paul Jaspal gave him a small donation.

For further information see www.warwicksingingtown.org