The Pavilion, Homestead Road, Graylingwell Park, Chichester PO196DA

This group is entitled ‘Sing to Feel Good’ and is aimed at anyone who wants to do just that! It will be gentle, inclusive and encouraging. We will be exploring ways of allowing our voice to expand and be ‘freed up’. Through simple melodies and harmonies we will engage with one another in song.

Thursday afternoons during term time, between 3pm and 4pm.

Across Norfolk

Sing Your Heart Out provides free singing workshops for mental wellbeing.

[The following text is taken from the SYHO website]

Our workshop sessions are led by professional singing tutors. We aren’t a choir and we don’t put on performances. We simply enjoy singing together, and we understand that sometimes not everybody feels well, and we accept and support people.

Our sessions aim to help people in all sorts of ways, SYHO participants have said they feel that it has improved their confidence, reduced stress and given a space where others understand how you feel. Sometimes a person may not feel like singing and that’s okay.

We welcome anyone over 18 who is experiencing or has experienced mental health difficulties, to offer a strong space of understanding and a sense of togetherness through singing. We welcome carers, family, friends, any support workers, staff and indeed anyone who wants to support their mental wellbeing (or simply likes to sing!)

SYHO is free to take part, though we welcome donations if you can afford it.

Sessions run Monday to Thursday across Norfolk. See website for full details

Trinity Rooms, Field Road, Stroud

A friendly, almost entirely female choir meeting weekly for singing and fun

Wednesday evenings, 7.30-9pm

Centre of Complementary Medicine, 13b Dragon Street, Petersfield GU31 4JN

We are not a choir but an informal and friendly group which meets on the first and third Sundays of each month. There’s no requirement to come every time, it’s fine to drop in when you can. We sing songs you may well know already, seasonal songs and simple rounds, folk songs and songs inspired by nature/culture.

No experience necessary, no audition, no sheet music, no pressure, no commitment, no such thing as a wrong note, just a space for us to get together and sing (or hum, or tap). Singing together can reduce stress, lift the mood and cultivate a sense of community and connection. We are an open and inclusive group, whatever your age, sound, background, identity or experience, you are welcome.

The singing sessions last for one hour and are free of charge (donations towards room hire and running costs are welcome but optional). It’s fine to move around or stop and listen or harmonise or improvise – anything goes.

For more information, please email zoeflint11@gmail.com

First and third Sunday mornings 11-12am and one-off events