What a great start to Christmas
At our December Monthly Meeting we were delighted to be entertained by staff and students from Orpheus College, Godstone, Surrey.
We enjoyed a full and varied programme with 3 former students singing solos and leading community singing. We laughed at the very amusing pieces by Sir Richard Stilgoe and Ann Lovelace.
Members were able to support the work of the college, which now has 65 disabled students, by purchasing Orpheus merchandise such as cards designed by students.
This is the second year we have thoroughly enjoyed the Orpheus visit and we are hoping it will become an annual event.
In the Beginning…….
In the mid-1990s, musician and songwriter Sir Richard Stilgoe and neurologist Dr Michael Swallow started a pilot offering disabled people the opportunity to take part in a week of music and performance. These were so effective that Sir Richard decided to start a place where disabled people and students could work together for longer than a week – to change their own and other people’s lives by creating new music and performing in public. The Orpheus Centre opened in 1997 at Sir Richard’s former family home in Godstone. Surrey.
