During the recent year of Heritage and Culture, we arranged concerts at Heritage sites in the London Boroughs to which older people were transported so they could enjoy a concert in a fabulous setting, giving them a magical outing. The Heritage sites in which we performed were: Valance House Museum, Barking & Dagenham; Eastbury Manor House, Barking; Avenue House, Barnet; Hall Place, Bexley; Brent Town Hall, Brent; Pitshanger Manor, Ealing; Forty Hall, Enfield; St. Ann's Library, Haringey; Headstone Manor, Harrow; Langtons Hall, Havering; Winston Churchill Hall, Hillingdon; Osterley Park, Hounslow; Hampton Court Palace, Kingston; The Canon's House, Merton; Ilford Chapel, Redbridge; The Octagon, Orleans Gallery, Richmond; Carew Manor, Sutton and Wigmore Hall, Westminster.

Left to right: Glenn Wilson, Maria Arakie and Pianist Carol Wells
at Valance House Museum, Barking & Dagenham.

OUR FUNDERS
Our grateful thanks to the Charitable Trusts, Community Funds, Lottery Funders, Arts Trusts and London Borough Councils who have contributed so generously to Connaught Opera in order that we might continue our work, promoting community cohesion within the network of care for older people in Greater London Boroughs and the South East of England. These benefactors are listed below. We also wish to thank the day centres, nursing homes, hospice and hospitals who paid fees directly to Connaught Opera for additional bookings. Yamaha and Markson Pianos have been brilliant in their support by loaning us grand pianos for our Knebworth House and Hampton Court Palace concerts.

Principal Benefactors, listed alphabetically:

AGE CONCERN, BEXLEY AGE CONCERN, CAMDEN AGE CONCERN, SOUTHWARK ARTS ABOUT WANDSWORTH ARTS COUNCIL ENGLAND (LONDON ARTS) ARTS COUNCIL NORTH EAST AWARDS FOR ALL BEDFONT DAY CENTRE, HOUNSLOW BLENHEIM DAY CENTRE (CWNL MENTAL HEALTH NHS TRUST) BURNHAM LODGE NURSING HOME CAMDEN COUNCIL - HOUSING & ADULT SOCIAL CARE: (INGESTRE ROAD RH; WELLESLEY ROAD RH; BRANCH HILL RH; ST. MARGARET'S EPH) CAREBASE LIMITED CENTRAL & CECIL HOUSING TRUST CHELSEA & WESTMINSTER HOSPITAL CITY OF WESTMINSTER (ARTS) CITYWEST HOMES EC1 NDC - COMMUNITY CHEST & FESTIVAL FUNDS EDWARD HARVIST TRUST (LB BRENT) ELMBRIDGE BOROUGH COUNCIL HALLMARK HEALTHCARE HAMPSHIRE COUNTY COUNCIL HAMPSTEAD WELLS & CAMPDEN TRUST HAMPTON COURT PALACE, LB RICHMOND (INITIATIVES FUND) & RB KINGSTON-UPON-THAMES (ARTS GRANTS FUND) - JOINT INITIATIVE HERTFORDSHIRE COUNTY COUNCIL (ADULT CARE SERVICES) KNEBWORTH HOUSE - HERTFORDSHIRE COUNTY COUNCIL (ADULT SERVICES) & QUANTUM CARE - JOINT INITIATIVE LB BARKING & DAGENHAM (MOLTEN FESTIVAL) LB BARNET LB CAMDEN (CULTURE SMALL ARTS GRANT) LB EALING (ARTS & CULTURE) LB HACKNEY (DISCOVER HACKNEY) LB HARINGEY LB HARROW LB HAVERING LB ISLINGTON (SOCIAL SERVICES) (ARTS & CULTURE) LB LEWISHAM LB MERTON (ARTS DEVELOPMENT FUND) LB NEWHAM (GO FOR IT GRANTS) LB REDBRIDGE (ARTS DEVELOPMENT) LB RICHMOND-UPON-THAMES (ARTS SERVICE, ORLEANS HOUSE & GALLERY) LB SUTTON (IMAGINE FESTIVAL) LONDON CATALYST LONDON COUNCILS NONSUCH ROTARY (SUTTON) NORTHERN ROCK FOUNDATION NORTON HOUSE, VICTORIA (ANCHOR) PADDINGTON ROTARY RB KINGSTON UPON THAMES (NEIGHBOURHOOD FUND) RB KENSINGTON & CHELSEA ARTS COUNCIL READING BOROUGH COUNCIL RPLC RICHMOND PARISH LANDS CHARITY SADLERS WELLS THEATRE SERVITE HOUSES SUNDIAL LINK AGE CENTRE, PEABODY TRUST SUTTON COMMUNITY FUND THE BARNES WORKHOUSE FUND THE CITY BRIDGE TRUST THE CLOSE CARE HOME, ABINGDON THE ITALIAN CONSULATE GENERAL THE NATIONAL TRUST THE ROYAL STAR & GARTER HOME, RICHMOND-UPON-THAMES TOWER HAMLETS PROJECT (JOINTLY FUNDED BY LONDON CATALYST, SUNDIAL LINK AGE PLUS, ST. KATHARINE & SHADWELL TRUST) TRUST FOR LONDON VILLA SCALABRINI, HERTS WESTMINSTER ARTS WESTMINSTER CITY COUNCIL (SING LONDON)

ABOVE: Hertfordshire County Council supported this concert in the Banqueting Hall at Knebworth House.
Thanks also to the Lytton-Cobbold family for graciously hosting this event and Markson Pianos,
who generously provided the Yamaha Concert Grand Piano.

ABOVE: Older residents of Kingston and Richmond enjoyed a fourth concert at the Banqueting House, Hampton Court Palace and were given free access to the house and grounds. Yamaha and Markson Piano once again provided pianist Nicholas Bosworth with a baby grand.