2024/5 Concert and Rehearsal Dates

Concert – Saturday 26th October 2024, 7.30pm, Thaxted Church

• Sunday 22nd September, 6.30-9.30pm, Newport Village Hall
• Sunday 29th September, 6.30-9.30 Great Chesterford Community Centre
• Sunday 6th October, 6.30-9.30pm, Great Chesterford Community Centre
• Sunday 13th October, 6.30-9.30pm, Newport Village Hall
• Sunday 20th October, 6.30-9.30pm, Newport Village Hall
• Friday 25th October, 7.30-9.30pm, E7 SWCHS
• Saturday 26th October, 2.30-5.30pm, Thaxted Church

• Sunday 3rd November, 6.30-9.30pm, Newport Village Hall
• Sunday 10th November, 6.30-9.30pm, Newport Village Hall
• Sunday 17th November, 6.30-9.30pm, Newport Village Hall
• Sunday 24th November, 6.30-9.30pm, Newport Village Hall
• Friday 29th November, 7.30-9.30pm, E7 SWCHS
• Sunday 1st December, 10.00am-1.00pm, Saffron Hall

• Sunday 19th January, 6.30-9.30pm, Newport Village Hall
• Sunday 26th January, 6.30-9.30pm, Newport Village Hall
• Sunday 2nd February, 6.30-9.30pm, Newport Village Hall
• Sunday 9th February, 6.30-9.30pm, Newport Village Hall
• Friday 14th February, 7.30-9.30pm, E7 SWCHS
• Sunday 16th February, 10.00am-1.00pm, Saffron Hall

• Sunday 13th April, 6.30-9.30pm, Newport Village Hall
• Sunday 27th April, 6.30-9.30pm, Newport Village Hall (note gap for Easter)
• Sunday 4th May, 6.30-9.30pm, Newport Village Hall
• Sunday 11th May, 6.30-9.30pm, Newport Village Hall
• Friday 16th May, 7.30-9.30pm, E7 SWCHS
• Sunday 18th May, 10.00am-1.00pm, Saffron Hall

• Sunday 1st June, 6.30-9.30pm, Newport Village Hall
• Sunday 8th June, 6.30-9.30pm, Newport Village Hall
• Sunday 15th June, 6.30-9.30pm, Newport Village Hall
• Sunday 22nd June, 6.30-9.30pm, Newport Village Hall
• Friday 27th June, 7.30-9.30pm, E7 SWCHS
• Sunday 29th June, 10.00am-1.00pm, Saffron Hall

• For events at Thaxted Church – online, or in person at the box office
• For events in Saffron Walden including Saffron Hall – Saffron Walden Tourist Information Centre, 1 Market St, Saffron Walden, Essex CB10 1HR, tel. 01799 524002
• On the door

Member subscriptions and gift aid

Please submit your subscription to our treasurer – £60/yr (first concert free for newcomers), or by electronic payment to “Saffron Walden Orchestral Society – SWSO”, at Barclays Bank Plc, sort code. 20-00-87, Acct. 90850217.

A new member that joins the orchestra during the season such that there are two or fewer concerts remaining will be entitled to a 50% reduction in the subscription payable for that year.

Payment is due on 1st August. To save on admin for the committee, please set up a standing order. 

If you are a taxpayer, you can make your subscription worth 25% more to the orchestra at no cost to yourself, by making it under the Gift Aid scheme. You can also help the orchestra minimise its administration costs by paying your subscription annually by standing order. Download the Gift Aid (.doc), and return it completed to our treasurer.

Please don’t regard subscriptions as optional; the orchestra does have significant costs to cover. 

All programme information is subject to confirmation 

Concert dress: all black, no jackets

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