National Youth Choir AlumniWelcome to the National Youth Choir Alumni community! If you are a former member of any National Youth Choir ensemble or emerging professional artist programme, then you still part of our National Youth Choir family! We’d love you to stay connected to our work and the ever-growing community of talented National Youth Choir graduates across the UK and abroad. Whether you’ve recently been a member or were involved back in the early years – you are very welcome. We are so proud that our alumni have gone on to achieve such wonderful things. National Youth Choir alumni are graduates from across the choir’s 40-year history, including doctors, nurses, teachers, conductors, CEOs as well as professional singers from The Swingles, BBC Singers, The Sixteen, Tenebrae, Gabrieli Consort, Monteverdi Choir, Glyndebourne, Scottish Opera and Royal Opera House Choruses and come together from as far afield as America, Australia, New Zealand, Hong Kong and Germany. Whatever your journey, we’d love each and every one of you to stay in touch. There are a number of ways you can choose to get involved. To be part of our supportive online network, join our Alumni Facebook Group; come together to sing with other alumnus by taking part in concerts and events or be part of the National Youth Choir's future by getting involved in fundraising initiatives to support more young people to be part of its life-changing programmes. Join our alumni communities on on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter Meet the committee Alumni events Alumni news Alumni Champion Fundraising What's on News Alumni Christmas Appeal beats target 22 January 2019 The Christmas Appeal by former members of the National Youth Choirs of Great Britain has raised a total of £17,044 for the Alumni Champions Fund, enabling 18 current members to participate in 2019. The appeal was led by the Alumni Champions Committee, and kick-started by a matched donation of £2,500 from an anonymous donor. The appeal had a target of £15,000, with donors encouraged to ‘turn their fivers into tenors (and sopranos, altos and basses)’. The final total beat its target comfortably, with £17,044 raised from over 250 donors, including Gift Aid and proceeds from the 20th annual NYCGB Alumni Carol Crawl, sponsored half-marathons by Anna George (1990s) and Julian Forbes (2000s), and sponsored Winter Walks by Catherine Byram-Wigfield and Lizzie Spear (1980s). The total was 49% higher than the previous years' Christmas Appeal, which raised £11,458. Following the appeal, the full proceeds were then distributed to current NYCGB members at the annual meeting of NYCGB’s Financial Assistance Panel, which decides how to allocate available Financial Assistance to the 1 in 5 members who request it. Alumni Committee member Lizzie Spear joined the panel for the process, and the discussion of the allocation of Alumni Christmas Appeal fundraising. Lizzie said: I am very pleased to report that the full amount of £17,044 raised by our Christmas Appeal has again been awarded to current members who requested support equivalent to 50% or more of costs. As a result, the Alumni Champions Fund supported a total of 18 NYCGB members from all choirs aged 10 to 22 with awards ranging from £282-£1,435. On behalf of those 18 young people, their families, and the Alumni Champions Committee, a huge and heartfelt thank you to everybody who donated to our second Christmas Appeal. Thank you! Everyone at NYCGB would like to thank the Alumni Champions Committee for their wonderful dedication and huge commitment to running this second successful campaign, our anonymous donor for their most generous support, and all of our Alumni donors for their incredible gifts and messages. Want to get all of our latest news and updates? SIGN UP Manage Cookie Preferences