A special message

To Members and Friends

I just wanted to wish everyone our very best wishes for Christmas and the New Year from the Whitstable Music Society Committee- myself, Gill Smyth, Sara Wheeler Christopher Palmer and Ian Cooke. And what a year this has been!

After much thought we decided to completely leapfrog our usual 2020 season of concerts because of the Coronavirus Restrictions, but everything is now in place to start a new series in September 202 with a full season of concerts through to April 2022, by which time we should be clear of the Coronavirus and back to something like normality.

When we rearranged our season for 2021/22 we agreed to pay our musicians 50% of their concert fee upfront to help with the really awful effect the pandemic has had on musicians' livelihoods and they were really appreciative. 

This greatly depleted our funds so it was very gratifying when one of our members wrote to say that she was so pleased with what we had done to help the musicians that she was sending us 50% of her season ticket cost for next season upfront to help with our finances. Sure enough a few days later a cheque for £42.50 arrived. This was such a thoughtful response for which we are very grateful.  If anyone else feels moved to replicate this please make a cheque for £42.50 payable to Whitstable Music Society and send to Gill Smyth, Sardine Cottage. 6 Cushings Walk Whitstable Kent CT5 1EZ and we will credit this to the cost of your season ticket later in the year. 

Our new brochure will be coming to you in the Spring of next year and we hope that all our Members and Friends will be pleased and delighted to return to live chamber music once again after such a difficult year. 

John Walker, Chairman

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