Sing & Smile

06/10/2022

Done! It was wonderful to sing at the KPMG Leeds office again! Lots of singing and smiling and lovely music. Singing is SOOOO good for you!

06/10/2022

Sing & Smile is BACK! Our first workplace choir since March 2020. KPMG Leeds be ready for an hour of singing and smiling! Looking forward to seeing some of the original members of the choir and hoping for some new recruits too!

21/12/2020

Sing & Smile are back!!!! Tonight we are delighted to be working with Laura Danceaid Wilson helping to raise money for a wonderful charity that supports children in the UK and beyond. Sing & Smile work with businesses to create workplace choirs and for every business we work with we give our time for free to a charity. So click on this link http://shop.danceaid.org/product/keepcalmandcarolon/ to buy your tickets and come along and sing some carols TONIGHT at 8pm! Singing is SO good for mental health and we could all do with a boost at the moment, come and be lifted with some festive cheer!

13/05/2020

How things change! It's a year since Sing & Smile was established! From the first Sing & Smile Workplace Choir in October 2019 the business grew from strength to strength in the first 6 months, and then in March 2020 everything stopped! No more singing with other people in the same room, choirs moved to virtual platforms and people longed for the day when they can physically sing alongside others again.

It's the middle of Mental Health Awareness Week and I had big plans for events that Sing & Smile could be involved in this week, but those will have to wait until next year. Sing & Smile can't wait to be back bringing people together through singing again but until then I just want to take the opportunity to remind you all that singing is so good for your mental and physical health, so in whatever way you can please keep singing!

Stay safe and well, with best wishes from Sing & Smile.

27/02/2020

It's been a busy week at Sing & Smile starting two new choirs! On Monday it was great to return to XPO Logistics, Inc. Barnsley, to start a 5 week workplace choir with a great group of people who smiled the whole time! On Tuesday I had the privilege of working with staff from Wakefield Hospice to create a new choir for anyone who has a connection with the hospice. We had real fun singing a great Beatles number! Can't wait to be back with both choirs next week. Back to today, looking forward to seeing the KPMG UK Leeds Choir who have lots to rehearse in preparation for a performance at the office next Friday for , I hope you are ready!

30/01/2020

Did you watch ‘Easy ways to live well’ on BBC1 last night? They were talking about the benefits of singing for health and well-being!

A quote from the article online:

“Group singing has been found to boost mental health, help the immune system and reduce stress. Singing releases endorphins, reducing our perception of pain and acting in a similar way to morphine — but without the danger of addiction.”

Join a choir! It’s good for you and you’ll enjoy it!

21/01/2020

“It’s really sad that schools aren’t able to keep music at the core of the education of a child because, to me, the benefits of learning an instrument are obvious. Music for the sake of music can be a beautiful thing.”

23 year old Sheku Kanneh-Mason (MBE) puts his success down to the commitment of his parents and attending a state school who supported music. His album is in the top 10 of the UK album chart - not the classical music chart but the same chart as Stormzy! What an inspiration!

03/12/2019

This is minutes after the KPMG Leeds workplace choir has performed for the first time EVER after only 8 rehearsals to over 200 clients! It was amazing! The choir smashed it. There was so much singing and smiling happening on that stage! Well done guys! And it’s all happening again tomorrow for the staff Christmas event!

02/12/2019

“Singing in workplaces around Yorkshire, what a great thing that would be!” I thought to myself one cold Tuesday morning in January 2019.

And tomorrow will be the first performance by a Sing & Smile workplace choir at Christmas events for staff and clients! Now people get to see the joy that singing has brought for an hour a week to a group of people who didn’t really know each other two months ago! And what a positive impact this has had on the lives of those employees just to think about something other than work for that 1 hour.

Here’s a great little article about some of the benefits of singing in a choir!

Find out our top 5 benefits to singing in a choir - joining a choir has never been so popular so we wanted to find out out why.