Volunteer Newsletters
2024 – Newsletters January pdf February March April May
Heulwen does a runner for SoundCafe!!
We want to say congratulations and a huge well done to one of our wonderful volunteers Heulwen who recently completed the Edniburgh Marathon on Sunday 26th May 2024 to raise vital funds to carry on providing sessions for all our guests. Heulwen’s other talent includes baking treats for our guests to enjoy. Once again thank…
SoundCafe Foxes Football Festival
This years SoundCafe Foxes Football Festival was held on Thursday 23rd May 2024 at St Margaret’s Pastures working in partnership with Leicester City in the Community. Again, it featured teams not only from the city but also across the East Midlands which helps to foster a sense of camaraderie and community spirit. A big…
Football Health & Well-Being – Change of Time
As from Thursday 11th April 2024 our Football Health & Well-Being session times will be 10.30am-12pm at St Margaret’s Pastures Sports Centre. For more information on how to access these sessions please contact Maria on 07852835145.
Cantamici Choir – Fundraising Concert
A big thank you to everyone who supported our fundraising concert at St Mary de Castro Church on Saturday 9th March 2024. Thank you to the Leicester Cantamici Choir for performing on the night along with our wonderful SoundCafe Choir. Thank you also to our volunteers who have supported our guests over the last few…
Leicestershire Cares
A big thank you to Neetu and everyone at Leicestershire Cares for their donation of Winter Warm bags which are guests were delighted to receive. We are looking forward to working with them moving forward which will benefit our guests.
Singing Cafe at Centre Project
We are delighted to be collaborating with Centre Project to bring our singing cafe to their service users on a 6 week pilot. We are half way through and everyone who has attended so far has really enjoyed the session. We are looking forward to working together in the future with exciting things to come.
Community Donation
We were delighted to welcome Elaine Smith on behalf of the Gold Hill Adventure Playground who came along to our Creative Cafe session to accept arts and crafts donations to help with them after the recent arson attack on their building. We hope our small gesture can help bring smiles back on the faces…
Leicestershire Cares – Bags of Hope
A big thank you to Bekki from Leicestershire Cares who recently visited our Choir session and donated some bags of hope to our guests. Guests at our other sessions were also able to receive one of the bags. As you can see they were delighted with them. Thanks once again.
Extra! Extra! SoundCafe Choir in the spotlight!
We are thrilled to announce that our incredible choir has featured in an article in the Leicester Mercury. Please click on the link: https://www.leicestermercury.co.uk/news/leicester-news/leicester-based-choir-giving-homeless-9022773 We are delighted to have had the opportunity to shine a light on our amazing guests and also our wonderful volunteers who support them each week – without them we…