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About us

Kaleidoscope is a community, female voice choir which aims to promote and foster a love of singing within the community and aid selected charities wherever possible.

We are rehearsing weekly and performing several times a year. We are currently accepting new members into all our voice sections.

If you would like to discuss a Kaleidoscope performance for fund-raising or entertainment please email info@kaleidoscopechoir.co.uk.

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Lichfield Rotary Concert, September 7th, in support of

For tickets £10 each , email : ayton265@gmail.com

phone Catherine on 07768 325606

or book online through ticketsource via this link :-

For more details about the fund raising at this concert follow this link :-

Saturday September 7th 7.30 pm, Concert for Lichfield Rotary at Lichfield Methodist Church

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For more information, and for details of all our forthcoming events please see our Concert Schedule page

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Fund Raising

In 2024 we intend to raise funds for both Burton and District MIND and St George’s Hospital in Stafford. This is being done in memory of our late Chair, Helen Klich. She worked at St George’s and, in her work, also with Burton & District MIND on projects supporting mental health service users.

“Burton and District Mind are your local mental health charity covering East Staffordshire, Tamworth and Lichfield District. Each year we support 4,000 people with the recovery of mental health problems; these might through counselling or one to one support, or through group activities, such as our peer support groups or sports activities. We will not give up until everyone experiencing a mental health problem gets the respect and support they need. 

Sometimes, one of our participants has a one-off need that no funder can fund, or partner charity can support – this might because it is out of scope or because the need is just so urgent. We have committed the donations from our friends at Kaleidoscope Choir to go towards a new bursary called ‘Helen’s Bursary’, which can be used by our Recovery Workers or Outreach Workers who have identified these needs. Perhaps it’ll fund essential travel, or white goods, or anything else that can really accelerate that’s person’s mental health recovery. We hope that Helen Klich’s huge commitment to helping people with mental health problems can be remembered by this legacy.  Together, we’ll leave no mind behind.”

Keri Lawrence, Development and Sustainability Officer, Burton and District Mind. 

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‘Kids like Us’, supporting juvenile arthritis and CRMO, chronic recurrent multifocal osteomyelitis, was adopted as our supported charity for 2023.

Kirsty Turner, chair of ‘Kids Like Us’ visited Kaleidoscope Choir recently to accept a cheque for funds raised by the choir over the last year.

 The choir held fund-raising concerts and raffles and donated money from rehearsal refreshments amounting to £914. In addition the charity joined the choir at a concert with collection buckets and merchandise, which raised a further £400.The charity supports young people and families living with juvenile arthritis in the West Midlands.​ There are currently around 1200 young people who live with arthritis in the area.  The cause of the disease in not clear and as yet there is no cure, which is why it also supports work that is looking for answers.​ Very few people realise that arthritis affects people of all ages.  They try to raise awareness so that no one feels like they are on their own.

There is more about our fund-raising on our About page