{"id":604935,"date":"2025-12-01T08:43:38","date_gmt":"2025-12-01T08:43:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/604935\/"},"modified":"2025-12-01T08:43:38","modified_gmt":"2025-12-01T08:43:38","slug":"christmas-choir-concert-the-nen-north-edinburgh-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/604935\/","title":{"rendered":"Christmas Choir Concert \u2013 The NEN \u2013 North Edinburgh News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Join Mary\u2019s Meals for an uplifting fundraising Christmas Choir Concert at the city\u2019s St Mary\u2019s Catholic Cathedral<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/nen.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Sister-Sister-choir.jpg?ssl=1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1600\" height=\"1067\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Sister-Sister-choir.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-218327\"  \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"\"><strong>This Christmas, Edinburgh residents can give the gift of hope to hungry children \u2013 by joining Mary\u2019s Meals for a lively celebration of Christmas through song.\u202f<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"\">The event takes place on Wednesday, 17 December from 19:00 to 21:00, and will include a fantastic selection of joyous carols, uplifting music and inspirational songs, sung by Voices and Sister Sister \u2013 two local community choirs. Guests will also get to enjoy a mug of hot chocolate, a glass of mulled wine and mince pies.\u202f<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Proceeds from the event go towards providing nutritious school meals for hungry children living in some of the world\u2019s poorest communities. These meals attract children into the classroom where they can gain an education that can be their ladder out of poverty.\u202f<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">The Scotland-based charity reaches an incredible three million children every school day, across 16 countries \u2013 including Ethiopia, Haiti and Zimbabwe.\u202f<\/p>\n<p class=\"\"><strong>Tickets for the event start at \u00a38 and can be secured by visiting:\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.marysmeals.org.uk\/get-involved\/charity-events\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">marysmeals.org.uk\/get-involved\/charity-events<\/a>\u202f\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/nen.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Voices-choir.jpg?ssl=1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1600\" height=\"1067\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Voices-choir.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-218328\"  \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"\"><strong>Sally Davidson, Mary\u2019s Meals Supporter Engagement Officer for East Scotland, says: \u201cIt costs just \u00a319.15 to feed a child with Mary\u2019s Meals for an entire school year \u2013 or just 10p a meal. <\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"\">\u201cHelp us turn hunger into hope for children still waiting for our life-changing meals by joining us for a night of joy, connection, and purpose.\u201d\u202f<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Give hope this Christmas \u2013 and with Double The Love, your donation can go twice as far! From 10 November, all donations made to Mary\u2019s Meals will be doubled by a group of generous supporters, up to \u00a31.1 million. <\/p>\n<p class=\"\">The gift matching will end when we reach the \u00a31.1 million pot. Together, through Double The Love, we can transform the lives of many more desperately hungry children waiting for Mary\u2019s Meals.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Donate today by visiting\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/donate.marysmeals.org\/gb\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">donate.marysmeals.org\/gb<\/a>\u202f\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"\"><strong>Date and time\u202f\u202f<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Wednesday, 17 December, 19:00 \u2013 21:00<\/p>\n<p class=\"\"><strong>Address\u202f<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"\">St Mary\u2019s Catholic Cathedral, 61 York Place, Edinburgh, EH1 3JD.\u202f<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Join Mary\u2019s Meals for an uplifting fundraising Christmas Choir Concert at the city\u2019s St Mary\u2019s Catholic Cathedral This&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":541278,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8816],"tags":[748,1102,4884,712,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-604935","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-edinburgh","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-edinburgh","10":"tag-great-britain","11":"tag-scotland","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115643431319714373","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/604935","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=604935"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/604935\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/541278"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=604935"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=604935"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=604935"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}