Each year the choir members nominate and then vote to select a charity to support throughout the year, raising money through concerts and events. Often there will be a personal link or connection to an organisation from the choir members themselves.
In 2026 the chosen charity is St Giles Hospice – More information soon
In 2024 and 2025 the choir adopted Burton and District Mind. This was done in memory of our late Chair, Helen Klich who worked with Burton & District MIND on projects supporting mental health service users, and they established a new fund in her memory – ‘Helen’s Bursary’.
In concerts on 26th July and 13th December 2025, we raised funds for Mind. An Eco therapy project, based in Burntwood, has benefitted from the bursary by using eco materials to develop and deliver wellbeing activities.
‘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).
‘Kids like Us’ is a charity supporting juvenile arthritis and CRMO, chronic recurrent multifocal osteomyelitis in the West Midlands. It was adopted as our supported charity for 2023. 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 choir raised a fantastic £607 for JDRF (Juvenile Diabetic Research Fund) at a concert in September 2022.
The choir had adopted the Memory Café as its 2022 charity and funds were raised both at concerts and during rehearsals. These funds have enabled Memory Café members to enjoy extra activities such as a visit to the panto, and dancing. It also enabled the organisation of a coronation party.