The Gettalife Project, of which I am a Trustee, is a small but life-changing charity for the people we have helped.

In an exciting venture, we are pioneering a new sound - a musical bridge to enable a creative fusion of a wonderful, exhilarating choral tone, bringing together the best of singers from the Gospel and African cultures and traditions with choristers from an English church choral background. Together they will form a unique choir to sing a new, specially commissioned anthem by the internationally acclaimed composer Jonathan Dove.

This choir, with individuals drawn together across difference and with sometimes painful histories, will lament lives lost and sing of a vision of hope to inspire through the famous words from the last book of the Bible, ”And I saw a new heaven and a new earth…and all tears will be wiped away….”

This specially created one-off mix of text, liturgy and ritual will take place at the church of St John the Evangelist, Upper Norwood, ‘the Cathedral of South London,’ and will bring a message of hope and consolation to a weary world, around the Feast of All Souls, November 2025.

To find out more about us, go to www.gettalife.org.uk