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Get your 2023 festive season started with the Games Maker Choir

Margaret - November 3, 2023

Do you have plans to be in London the first weekend of December? Join The Games Maker Choir at not one, but two seasonal singing performances to start your festive celebrations in style this December. We’ll be at the glorious V&A in South Kensington at lunchtime (from 1pm) Saturday 2nd December 2023, the third time… Read more

Summer Social Singalong for Choir members past and present

Margaret - June 25, 2023

Calling all former choir members, and those who haven’t been able to attend rehearsals for a while. Are you missing singing with The Games Maker Choir? You are invited to join the second half of our rehearsal for a singalong on Saturday 1st July 2023, followed by a summer social event. 🙂 Starting approximately 2pm… Read more

Games Maker Choir’s Tenth Anniversary Concert success!

Margaret - October 15, 2022

WOW! What a wonderful evening! The anniversary concert delivered by the Games Maker Choir on the 8th of October 2022 was considered to be an immense success, with a great atmosphere in a packed St John’s Church, Hyde Park in London, the city where ‘The Games Makers’ – and the choir began. The elegant church… Read more

More great news for our Anniversary Concert

Margaret - August 13, 2022

We are excited to announce that we will be joined by the Barnes Concert Band at our tenth anniversary concert on 8th October, at St John’s, Hyde Park, London. Formed in the early 1970s, the Barnes Concert Band now has almost 40 members and performs regularly in the Barnes Music Festival, summer bandstand concerts at… Read more

A busy weekend when “we came back home”

Margaret -

What a fabulous and a VERY busy weekend for the Games Maker Choir! On Friday 22nd July the choir were to be found mingling and singing with some well-known Team GB athletes from London 2012, the Mayor of London and representatives of the organisations involved in creating (arguably) the “Greatest Show on Earth” ten years… Read more

Looking Back and Looking Forward

Margaret - June 13, 2022

We’re looking back AND looking forward in this anniversary year as we remember that amazing ‘Summer of Sport’ in London 2012.   LOOKING BACK   What are your memories of London 2012? Did you know you can share your #legacy #memories with the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park? Read some inspiring stories and share your memories… Read more

Performance Announcement! Celebrating some iconic 2022 events

Margaret - May 22, 2022

We are excited to announce that The Games Maker Choir will be performing on Sunday 05 June 2022 as some very special major international events combine at an iconic venue.     Join us at the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park to help launch the Queen’s Baton Relay as part of the Birmingham 22 Commonwealth Games! The Baton… Read more

Another very special guest announcement

Margaret - April 29, 2022

We have more 10th Anniversary Concert news! We are delighted to announce singer songwriter Alistair Griffin will be joining us as part of our 10th Anniversary Concert at St Johns Hyde Park, London on the 8th October 2022. Alistair Griffin, the singer songwriter from the North East has a reputation for writing songs for the… Read more

10th Anniversary Concert news  –  DRUMROLL PLEASE

Margaret - April 21, 2022

We have a A VERY SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENT! Would you like to know who the first of our guest performers are going to be at our 10th Anniversary Concert?   We are hugely excited to announce that the Pandemonium Drummers are the first to confirm they will be joining us at St John’s Hyde Park for our London concert… Read more

Saturday 8th October 2022. Have you saved the date?

Margaret - January 22, 2022

Unbelievably, 2022 marks 10 Years since the London 2012 Olympic & Paralympic Games where our unique choir began. To celebrate this special year we are holding an anniversary concert in central London with invited guests. We would love you to join us in the city where it all began. So please save the date for… Read more

Happy New Year 2022! It’s a special one!

Margaret - January 19, 2022

Happy New Year from the Games Maker Choir. Would you believe that it’s our TENTH Anniversary year? Who would have thought on the day when the choir of volunteer Games Makers first sang together in public at the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park – 9th August 2012 – that we would still be together, rehearsing, performing,… Read more

Congratulations to Team GB, and Thank You For The Medals!

Margaret - August 13, 2021

We celebrate Team GB’s success in patriotic style as we return to rehearsals together. With an amazing collection of medals from the Tokyo 2020 Olympics, Team GB have again demonstrated the quality and breadth of sporting prowess in Great Britain and Northern Ireland. How amazing to finish 4th in the Medal Table of the best… Read more

We ARE a social bunch, getting together again

Margaret - April 18, 2021

There’s not much that will stop members of the Games Maker Choir from socialising and as the government’s road map moves along, we’re taking full advantage of the restrictions easing.     Timing nicely with some glorious spring weather several small, socially distanced gatherings for choir members, creatively named ‘Sit Out to Help Out’, have… Read more

We Wish For You The World!

Margaret - January 2, 2021

The Games Maker Choir have recorded a new video, to pass on a heartfelt sentiment to the world. The song “I Wish For You The World” was first released and performed with singer songwriter Alistair Griffin who wrote the track with Richard Chance in 2012 to celebrate the London Olympics. The song has been rearranged… Read more

The rehearsals must go on!

Margaret - December 12, 2020

Those face coverings can’t hide a Games Maker smile!     The Games Maker Choir sing together again! We all know that the world has been a very strange place over the last few months and without exception we have all had to find new ways of adapting to everyday life. Choirs are no different,… Read more

Marathon support for Special Olympics – 2.6 challenge style

Margaret - April 26, 2020

It would have been the  2020 London Marathon today, and many from our choir would have been volunteering or even running in this world class event. Sadly this was not to be, but members of the Games Maker Choir have risen to the event organiser’s Two Point Six Challenge  and are raising funds for a very… Read more

The Games Maker Choir pull together – at a distance

Margaret - April 12, 2020

  During the current Covid-19 crisis the Games Maker Choir family are pulling together to support each other by as many means as possible.   In the regular world, members of this unique choir are only able to meet up in person on the first Saturday of each month, as choir members are located all… Read more

The Games Maker Choir Showreel

Margaret - March 7, 2019

Take a look at our latest showreel to see and hear the choir and some of our great experiences…. so far.   There have been some truly unforgettable ‘pinch me’ adventures and performances for this merry band of volunteers who came together during and following the London 2012 Olympics and Paralympics, with several new members… Read more

10th Anniversary Concert News! Auction of Promises

Margaret - June 2, 2022

As part of the fundraising plans for our tenth Anniversary Concert on the 8th October 2022, we’ve created an Auction of Promises. Intrigued? We invite you to have a bit of fun and get involved in the run up to our concert in this special anniversary year.  Funds raised will go towards our tenth anniversary… Read more