Dear Parents/Carers
Registration is now open for our 2025 courses.
2025 COURSE DATES
Our 2025 courses will take place at Bromsgrove School
Easter
Sunday 13th April – Saturday 19th April Junior Choirs (Yellow, Blue and Green)
Tuesday 15th April – Saturday 19th April (Senior Choir)
Summer
Sunday 3rd – 9th August (All choirs)
2025 choir registration
Please click here… to register for 2025.
Registrations are due for both courses by Friday 15th November, together with a non-refundable course fee deposit of £75 per course.
Registrations for both courses are due in November so that the choir can plan staffing and other arrangements.
Your child’s place is only guaranteed on receipt of the registration fee for each course.
After 15th November, remaining places will be given to new starters at audition.
If you already know that your child will not be returning to NCC, please let me know so that I can offer their place to a new starter.
2025 COURSE FEES
After careful consideration, the Board of Trustees has decided to increase the course fees by a small amount for this year. NCC is a charity. We are not in receipt of any public funding. We depend entirely on the income from course fees and any sponsorship we attract in order to fund our work. We use all the monies we receive to run our courses for your children. The costs of running our courses have increased significantly over recent years and this continues despite careful scrutiny.
We need to increase course fee income to put the NCC on a sustainable financial footing to ensure the longevity of the choir. We are also actively looking for external funding, but this is very hard to come by in the current financial climate.
The fees for 2025 will be:
£785 per course for Yellow, Blue and Green.
£525 for Easter and £785 for Summer for Seniors
The actual cost of sending your child to each course is £910. If you feel able to donate £125 to meet the full cost of sending your child, or to make a partial donation towards the additional cost of your child’s attendance, we would be very grateful. All donations, however small make a difference. This will help us to ensure that NCC can continue to provide the same experience for your children into the future.
In addition, if anyone knows of any companies or organizations who are looking for charities to sponsor or support as part of their corporate social responsibility programme, please do tell them about NCCGB.
2025 COURSE FEE PAYMENTS
We split the course fee for each course into 3 payments (registration fee, course deposit and course balance).
Please read our payments policy here…
Registration fees are due for both courses by Friday 15th November.
Payment dates for 2025 are:
Easter course
Registration fee £75 Friday 15th November
Course deposit £100 Friday 17th January
Course balance: Friday 28th February
Junior £610
Senior £350
Summer course
Registration fee £75.00 Friday 15th November
Course deposit £100.00 Friday 9th May
Course balance (all) £610 Friday 20th June
Some parents/carers prefer to pay in weekly or monthly instalments to spread the cost of courses. If you would like to pay in instalments, this must be agreed before payments begin. Please contact me if you would like to do this.
Course fees must have been made in full before the beginning of a course.
I would be very grateful for payments to be made on time. It takes a lot of work to follow up late payments.
We do appreciate that sometimes unforeseen circumstances mean that a payment can’t be made on the correct date. If this happens, please do contact me to discuss, to save me having to bother you with emails, and to help me with our financial planning.
SIBLING DISCOUNTS
There will be a 10% sibling discount for 2025. The total reduction will be taken off the course balance.
BURSARY APPLICATIONS
Our bursary scheme is open to those with a total annual household income of £40,000 or under. Bursaries will be awarded of between 5 and 100% of the course fees, depending on the applications that we receive in that cycle.
All bursary applications, including all supporting paperwork, must be received by 5pm on Friday 3rd January. Applications received after this deadline will not be considered.
You can find all details here…
AUDITIONS
Just a reminder that booking is now open for auditions. Please do share this with any children aged 9-19 who love singing and who would love NCCGB. Details are available here..
BOYS WITH CHANGED VOICES
Please contact me if any boys find that their voice is changing between now and Easter. I will arrange for them to have an online assessment with Dan so that he can agree a plan with you for the best way forward and ensure they are in the correct choir for their voice. Please note that we may ask your son to miss a course whilst their voice is transitioning, if we feel that it is better for their vocal health. This does not mean they will lose their place in the choir.
GREEN CHOIR AUDITIONS
Members of Blue Choir in school years 8 -10 can audition for a place in Green Choir if they feel that they have made substantial progress since the end of the summer course. Auditions will be held online during the morning of Saturday 1st February. I will send out further information in December.
NCC SCHOLARSHIP 2025
The NCC scholarship is now open for applications from Senior Choir members. The closing date for applications is 5pm on Friday 1st November. The auditions will take place at Dulwich College in London on Saturday 16th November. If your child would like to apply, further information, including the criteria for entrance, can be found on our website here…
Please read the information before applying via this application form here …
YELLOW CHOIR RECORDING
The Yellow Choir recordings from the summer course are now finalised and you can listen to them via the Britten Pears website:
I Am A Refugee | Britten Pears Arts
Everyone Is Special | Britten Pears Arts
Yellow Choir sound wonderful and we are really proud of them. I hope this brings back lots of good summer memories!
NEW VIDEO
I hope that you have all had a chance to watch our new video here… . Some people may even be able to spot themselves on it! For those who haven’t seen it yet please do watch and share with others. We think it properly conveys what NCC is all about.
EASY FUNDRAISING
If you are not already doing so, you may not be aware that you can support us by using Easyfundraising.
This is an excellent way for the choir to raise funds. If you shop online, if you access the retailer’s website through the Easyfundraising website first, the retailer will donate a percentage of your sale to NCC, at no extra cost to you.
Please do contact me if you have any questions on any of the above.
Thank you
Best wishes
Nicole
Links
2025 Choir Registration Form
Course Payment Policy
Course Payment and Bursary Scheme
Full Scholarship Details to be read before applying.
Scholarship Application
Join Us
NCCGB Video
Yellow Choir Recordings
I am a refugee / Britten Pears Arts