Welcome to the website of the National Association of Choirs.
Whitehaven MVC
The NAC is a member organisation run by volunteer Officers, with the aim of promoting choral music across the UK. To do this we provide help and assistance to member choirs, via this website, our periodic magazines News & Views, contact numbers and email addresses. Have a look at the Structure section under Information button.
Our membership is growing rapidly, and numbers in excess of 550 choirs all around the UK. We even have an associate member choir in Sydney, Australia! If you would like to find a choir local to you, see the Choirs link, and follow either the Choirs map or go to the geographic Group you are interested in.
If you are already a member choir, you will be able to access information not available to the general public, in the Members Area. Here you will find copies of News & Views, minutes of meetings, full details of our insurance scheme, Advice Sheets, and many other interesting snippets of information. To get into the Members Area you will need to contact our Webmaster for a username and password.
In addition to the magazine, published three times per year, we hold a three-day Conference which is built round our AGM. The Conference moves around the country to a different area each year, so that every member choir has the opportunity to send their representative to Conference without having to travel too far. The 2012 Conference (23rd-25th March) will be held at the Belsfield Hotel, Bowness-on-Windermere, and full details together with a booking form will be in the Events section as soon as possible. There will be a headline presenter - whose name we will not reveal just yet, watch this space! - together with other seminar presenters, Trade Stands, and a concert showcasing local choirs on the Saturday evening. The weekend is always great for renewing old acquaintanceships and making new friends, talking over problems and sharing best practice, and just plain having fun with like-minded people! And the 2012 Conference has the advantage of being in the best place possible for sightseeing and exploring, so please do come along and join us.
Do you want to take your choir on tour? Do you need a new choir uniform? What about new music at a discount? Plenty of information on the External Links page!
We are here to help with all aspects of running a choir - we know the problems that go with trying to be a business in the voluntary world - and if we don't know the answers we know people who do. Do have a look in the Members Area if you are a member choir - if you are not yet a member you can explore the advantages of joining the Association under Information-Membership - but even if you are not a member we are more than happy to try to help with your queries. The Officers of the Association have considerable hands-on experience from running their own choirs, and are always available to assist on the phone or by email.
Above all else, enjoy your singing!
Celia Johns
Honorary Chairman & Webmaster
