Past Events

January 2009  - Whitley Women started
 
Performances at Alnwick Gardens and on Whitley Bay promenade. Residential weekend at Ridley Hall. Seasonal songs on the Concourse at the Sage, Gateshead and in the
                       village square in Allendale
 
 2010    - Family and Friends concert
Performances at Whitley Bay High School and Seaton Delaval Hall. Singing picnic on Whitley Bay beach. Performance at Alnwick Gardens and Blyth festival
                     Singing day (just for ourselves) in Cullercoats Community Centre. Residential weekend at Ridley Hall. Singing seasonal songs on the Concourse at The Sage
 
 
 
 
2011     - Spring Sing. Performances at Seaton Delaval Hall, Alnwick Gardens, on the Concourse at the Sage. Singing Picnic on Whitley Bay Beach
Winter 2011     - Performances at:
                           Whitley Bay Town Centre at the St Nicholas Fair
                           The Victorian Market, North Shields
                           Concourse at the Sage
                           Cullercoats Community Centre
                           Cullercoats Methodist Church Hall
                           Linskill Centre (with the Linskill Theatre Group)
                           Alnwick Gardens
            
2012       -Eurokoor visit, Race for Life. Christmas performances at:
                           Tynemouth metro
                           Tynemouth Priory
                           St Edward's Church, Whitley Bay
                           Whitley Bay shopping precinct
 
2013 - Singing picnic;  Ridley Hall -  detective mystery. Christmas choir sang at: Seaton Delaval Hall (in the stables)
                                                                    Whitley Bay and Monkseaton Metro stations
                                                                    St Alban's Church, Earsdon
                                                                    Whitley Bay shopping precinct
 
2014 - Choir trip to Holland, meeting up with Eurokoor again. Performances:St Andrew's Church, Seaton Delaval Hall, Brierdene Festival and 'Under the dome'
 Social event in Cullercoats Crescent Social Club, Whole choir Christmas singing at St George's, Cullercoats, Christmas choir sand in Whitley Bay library, The Old Low Light, Seaton Delaval Hall and Whitley Bay Shopping Precinct
 
 
2015 - Spring social - Fish and chip supper; Singing in Ridley Park, Blyth; Residential at Ridley Hall;July 2015 - Singing Walk - collecting for NECCR; singing at Seaton Delaval Hall. Christmas singing in Eldon Square for the Children's Heart Fund, then around Whitley Bay/North Shields for Stroke North. 
 
2016 - Film evening to watch 'Hans Christian Anderson'; singing in Howdon Community Centre and at Whitley Bay Carnival
Trip to Copenhagen to sing with Tingluti Oldkor; Summer Concert in King's Priory ; Christmas Concert in St Andrew's; Carol choir sang on Newcastle Station and in Whitley Bay library
 
2017 - social with cowboy theme; singing at Whitley Bay Carnival, Seaton Delaval Hall and The Exchange; Summer School in August
 
2018 - Bradford residential - 'War Horse' at the Alhambra and 1920's themed evening; sing at the Baltic for World Downs' Syndrome Day; in Whitley Bay Carnival parade as Suffragettes, at Beamish (as suffragettes)
 
2019 - Whitley Women's 10th Birthday Party; singing at Whitley Bay Carnival; Spanish-themed social;Summer Sing;Power of Song concert - November 2019 at the Park Hotel.
Christmas Choir sang at Wallington Hall, Alnwick Gardens and Seaton Delaval Hall
 
2020 or 2021 no events because of the COVID lockdowns.
 
2022 - we sang at Spanish City for the Queen's baton relay; at Tynemouth metro station for the Mouth of the Tyne festival and in Old Low Light and Seaton Delaval Hall. We walked in the carnival parade with our 'Rainbow Warrior'/ residential at Wydale Hall with 60's themed evening
 
2023 -Taskmaster social evening; singing at Tynemouth Food Fair; Walking with our banner in Whitley Bay Carnival, singing at Seaton Delaval Hall, Mouth of the Tyne festival and Wallingon Hall gardens. Christmas singing at Seaton Delaval Hall, St Andrew's Church and Wallington Hall.