WaterAid Brings Showbiz Stars Straight To Homes With Virtual Christmas Concert

WaterAid is internet hosting a star-studded digital ‘Christmas Get Together‘ on Tuesday 8 December from 6.30pm, bringing seasonal songs, festive readings and particular performances to folks’s houses to lift cash for the charity’s Future on Faucet enchantment.

Composer Sir Richard Stilgoe has penned an authentic track for the live performance. Becoming a member of the merriment might be actors Dougray Scott and Tobias Menzies, singer-songwriters KT Tunstall, Katie Melua, and Joe Stilgoe, singer-songwriter and broadcaster Cerys Matthews, actor and broadcaster Sir Tony Robinson, and harpist-composer Catrin Finch. The digital gala might be hosted by The Three Levels singer Sheila Ferguson.

Whereas the live performance might be free to observe, WaterAid is encouraging the general public to donate what they could have spent on a festive evening out.

Proceeds will go in the direction of the charity’s Future on Faucet enchantment, which goals to lift £3 million to remodel hundreds of lives with clear water the world over. The UK authorities will match public donations earlier than 4 February 2021, as much as £2 million, making double the distinction in climate-vulnerable communities.

Simply £10, roughly the price of a brief taxi experience, would pay for two.5 metres of pipe to convey water to a group, and with matched funding, the donation might go twice as far. A donation of £140, the price of a giant evening out, might energy a pump with a photo voltaic panel, and with the UK authorities doubling it, the donation would imply £280 for clear water initiatives.

One in ten folks globally shouldn’t have clear water, and erratic and excessive climate introduced on local weather change is making it a lot more durable for the world’s most weak folks to get clear water. Entry to scrub water helps preserve folks wholesome and resilient to the consequences of local weather change.

With a theatre, broadcasting, and cabaret profession spanning greater than 5 a long time, Sir Richard Stilgoe, (“Cats”, “Starlight Specific”, “The Phantom of the Opera”) will learn a ditty he has composed particularly for WaterAid.

Sir Richard Stilgoe mentioned:

“It is appalling that thousands and thousands of individuals stay with out clear water. Being denied this primary human proper has a devastating influence on lives and livelihoods. Having supported WaterAid for a lot of, a few years, I am extraordinarily dedicated to the work they do, and have seen the actual distinction clear water makes to folks’s lives within the communities I’ve visited with the charity, together with these in Ethiopia. Though we’re celebrating nearly, music is a good way to convey folks collectively. It has been such a difficult 12 months for a lot of; I hope folks can discover a approach be a part of this implausible live performance and help WaterAid’s Future on Faucet enchantment in order that collectively, we might help get clear water to those that want it most.”

Actor and WaterAid Ambassador Tobias Menzies (“The Crown”, “Outlander”, and “Recreation of Thrones”) will ship a festive studying.

Tobias Menzies mentioned:

“It is simple to take clear water without any consideration; however one in ten folks lack entry to this primary human proper, and our altering local weather is making life even more durable for poor communities world wide. With clear water on faucet, folks’s lives and livelihoods are protected. They will meet their primary wants, keep secure and wholesome, have time to go to high school or work, and might develop meals even when the climate is unpredictable. I am proud to help WaterAid’s Future on Faucet enchantment and excited to be a part of its Christmas live performance; the cash raised will assist convey clear water to hundreds of households, remodeling lives for good.”

Actor Dougray Scott (“Ripley’s Recreation”, “Enigma”, “My Week with Marilyn”) and WaterAid Ambassador, who has visited WaterAid’s work in Mozambique, will learn Snow-Flakes by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.

Dougray Scott mentioned:

“Having seen how WaterAid’s work has remodeled lives throughout my go to to Mozambique in 2018, I am delighted to help the charity’s new enchantment, Future on Faucet. Whereas we will not have fun Christmas collectively bodily, the live performance might be a strong approach of uniting folks to help a great trigger. It is actually unacceptable that so many individuals are denied clear water, and at the moment are having to deal with a altering local weather, making it even more durable for communities to entry clear water. Let’s all make an actual distinction in folks’s lives by supporting the charity’s enchantment.”

Catrin Finch, WaterAid Ambassador and the previous Royal Harpist to HRH, The Prince of Wales, will play a shocking rendition of “Have Your self A Merry Little Christmas”. In 2015 Catrin visited WaterAid’s work in Ethiopia and in the identical 12 months launched a self-composed album (“Tides”) in help of the worldwide charity.

Catrin Finch mentioned:

“Music is such an intrinsic a part of Christmas celebrations, and I am delighted to be becoming a member of this digital festive fundraising live performance. The Future on Faucet enchantment may be very near my coronary heart as I’ve seen first-hand how WaterAid’s very important work is remodeling lives in Ethiopia. It is a horrible injustice that 785 million folks do not have clear water, affecting their well being, training and livelihoods; and now local weather change is making life even more durable. Collectively, we might help make an actual distinction to folks’s lives world wide.”

To obtain your hyperlink to observe the live performance, you may register and donate at WaterAid’s web site at:
https://www.wateraid.org/uk/christmas-concert