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#SHOWSOLIDARITYWITHSHCOOLS AND HUNGRY KIDS
Let’s push Mariah Carey off the No. 1 spot for Christmas!
Be part of our assault on the Christmas charts with a community rendition of ‘Come on in from the cold’ with Boff Whalley’s Commoners’ Choir.
We’ll enter it in the Official Charts and you’ll be able to buy it for 99p.
All proceeds will go to the Trussell Trust.
It’s quick, simple, and fun:
Download the lyrics here
Set up your laptop or phone to play the karaoke version of ‘Come on in from the cold’ at a low volume
Film yourself singing (widthways/landscape) ideally with earphones and mic (and a santa hat?)
Email the video file to yourturn@steamco.org.uk or WhatsApp it to 07836375128
AND DON’T WORRY
Don’t be intimidated by the brillaince of the Commoners’ Choir, even if you can’t sing, sing what you can, even if it’s just the chorus!
Or mime it. It’s your mugshot that we want really.
Better yet, get your kids, other family members, and bubble buddies in on the act … stay safe!
KARAOKE VERSiON
Is below, play it on one screen and film yourself on another. Make sure the volume is low though
THE SONG SO FAR
Below is the first edit of the song and film, with a lovely contribution from former head teacher Rachel Orr.
Be a part of it… with your art!
BOFF GOT BACK UP AGAIN
A highlight of the #AimHigh20 Festival held with the community of Parklands Primary was surely the chat and performance by and with the legendary Boff Whalley, formerly with chart topping band Chumbawumba for 30 years and now leader of the Commoners Choir who sing socially conscious songs so beautifully.
He also sang a duet with Chris Dyson, the exuberant and inspiring led of the Parklands Primary School Community on the Seacroft Estate in Leeds.
COMMUNITY LEADERSHIP
Every Christmas, Chris Dyson invites the whole of the Seacroft estate into the school on Christmas Eve Eve for a hot meal, presents, and and real reindeer.
Obviously that wasn’t going to happen this year with Covid but he has still laid on the #XmasAtParklands extravaganza part of which we live streamed to the community as part of the #AimHigh20 Festival weekend.
Working with local charities he’s giving every child a food parcels and presents to take home as well as over £11,000 in supermarket vouchers.
POVERTY ISN’T STATS
Boff Walley’s Commoners Choir recognised this community spirit and generosity a few years ago with an anthem ’ Come in from the Cold’.
Will you join us to sing with, show solidarity for and showcase the efforts of Chris and the many other school community leaders like him that we have been proud to work with across the UK, like Chris Tolson in Bradford, Dave Shakeshaft in Birmingham, Brian Walton in Somerset and Siobhan Collingwood whose TES blog on how ‘poverty stats aren’t numbers, they are children’ in her school community haunts us to this day.
The TRUSSELL TRUST
All proceeds from this campaign will go to the Trussell Trust - that could be £50-100k if we get to No.1!
We support a nationwide network of food banks and together we provide emergency food and support to people locked in poverty, and campaign for change to end the need for food banks in the UK.