IT provides entertainment and the opportunity for singers to join a choir.
But Holmfirth Choral Society chiefs feel they could do much more, if given a cash injection.
That’s why the group have registered for the Examiner’s Wish 12 campaign.
The campaign will see £25,000 shared out between dozens of community groups across the Huddersfield area.
The society, formed in 1945 to help raise funds for victims of a flash flood in the upper Holme Valley, currently puts on concerts in aid of various local groups.
The 75-strong choir also welcomes new members without any singing audition.
Conductor Geoffrey Lockwood said they wanted to continue to promote choral music in the Holme Valley area.
He said: “We provide a lot of people with the opportunity to sing and we always try to put on music for the entertainment of local people.
“But this gets increasingly more expensive and harder to do each year.
“We always rely on sponsorship and that’s getting harder to obtain.”
Mr Lockwood also said the society had a significant quantity of sheet music and books that were saved when Kirklees Council decided to scrap them to make space for new material.
If granted some cash the choir plans to make the music available to other groups.
He added: “Given that it’s come from a public library it would be great to make it available to groups that have had it in the past.
“At the moment it’s sitting in someone’s garage but we need to find space for it.”
The choir’s next concert will be held at Holmfirth High School on November 10, with Holmfirth High School’s choir as its guests – promoting singing to young people in the area.
