GREEN LIDS RAISE CHARITY FUNDS ON AN ISLAND PARADISE
UNESCO NOTABLE WORLD’ S FIRST FOR WIRRAL MUSIC TEAM
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GREEN LIDS RAISE CHARITY FUNDS ON AN ISLAND PARADISE
UNESCO NOTABLE WORLD’ S FIRST FOR WIRRAL MUSIC TEAM
The intrepid fundraiser, Swasie Turner MBE, along with his two fellow team members, Barry Phillips and Tim Cahill, have just returned from an 80-mile wheelchair push to every fire station on the Isle of Wight.
The three proud Green‘ Lids’ raised funds for the Fire-Fighters Charity and the Royal Marines Charity. They also donated to the Ryde Inshore Rescue Service who had arranged free return ferry crossings to the island.
The Green Lids returned to the island after a successful fundraising trip three years earlier to complete another lengthy and physically demanding fundraising event.
This 2017 trek was a huge success and the generosity of the Isle of Wight residents and tourists was astounding. The route was challenging with some very steep hills, nevertheless, buses and coaches stopped to invite Tim Cahill to board vehicles and collect donations from passengers and drivers.
Road users and pedestrians also gave generously to swell the collection buckets as the team negotiated the lengthy and often extremely steep gradients.
Isle of Wight media ensured everyone was aware of the team’ s efforts to raise funds for their very worthy charities. Fundraisers stopped at the‘ Propeller Inn’ for refreshments and the Inn’ s hostess, Annie Parsons, and Shaun Williams were very helpful and generous.
The Isle of Wight charity wheelchair push was a huge success and raised almost £ 2000 from the people they met who gave so generously throughout the push to each Fire Station on the island for the two worthy charities.
To support Swasie on his fundraising initiatives, visit swasieturner. org.
Two of Wirral’ s top musical experts have brought about the world’ s first exchange scheme for young classical musicians in conjunction with UNESCO.
The Orchestra dell’ Arte, directed by Edward Peak and managed by Dr Valerie Warr, is well-known for being the cornerstone of the Wirral Arts Festival. The orchestra are equally at home playing the great symphonies and concertos as well as music from film and television.
As well as an experienced conductor, Edward is an experienced conductor, a top orchestral arranger and for 30 years, he was a performer and conductor with the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra. Edward was recently honoured by Wirral and presented with an award for his work.
The UNESCO tie-up happened as a result of Liverpool having recently won the title of UNESCO Creative City of Music. UNESCO, which awarded the Maritime Mercantile City of Liverpool World Heritage Site status in 2004, has now recognised the city’ s musical heritage, designating it a permanent UNESCO City of Music. Liverpool is England’ s only representative. Music was crucial to that success and this latest prestigious award is seen as a natural progression of Liverpool’ s cultural journey.
In May 2017, the first of a series of exchange concerts took place and Sacha Rattle and his wife, Zeynep Özsuca, jetted off to Bologna to perform a duo concert of music. In return, the young Italian pianist Pietro Fresa will be joining the orchestra on 17 September 2017 at Liverpool’ s St George’ s Hall. Many people work hard behind the scenes to make these exchanges happen and principal in this have been the Manager of Orchestra dell’ Arte, Dr Valerie Warr and the head of Liverpool’ s UNESCO City of Music, producer Kevin McManus. Edward Peak says that The European link, thanks to the UNESCO connection, will open up so many new possibilities. This is a hugely exciting time for the young soloists and for Liverpool.
For more information visit, www. dellarte. co. uk wirrallife. com 11