Community choir takes on Trafalgar Square with Christmas single

A community choir is set to take to Trafalgar Square for a Christmas performance with a special message.

The Ashford Sings choir is run by Diagrama Foundation foster carers Nic and Chris Kimmance. 

Concerned with the lack of foster carers throughout the country, Chris put pen to paper to write the lyrics and music for a new Christmas single.

The song Welcome Home tells the story of a child who hasn’t had a good experience of Christmas and wants someone to take them home, and their wishes are answered when they get a new family.

Chris, Diagrama Foster Carer and choir leader of Ashford Sings said: “My wife Nic and I have been fostering with the not-for-profit Diagrama agency for four years. 

“We know the incredible rewards of fostering for not only our own birth family but for the children we have fostered. 

“There are too many children waiting for foster homes and I hope that Welcome Home will encourage more people to consider fostering.”

The new Christmas track will form part of the Ashford Sings performance at Trafalgar Square on December 21. 

Margaret Gardiner, fostering and adoption team manager at Diagrama Foundation said: “We are so thankful to Nic and Chris for helping promote the need for more foster carers. 

“Every day 100 children enter the care system and there are simply not enough carers to give these children safe and secure foster home.

“We hope that the single will raise awareness about the fostering crisis and we will receive lots of enquiries from people who are moved to foster. A Christmas number one would be nice too!”

Diagrama Fostering is an independent, not-for-profit fostering agency that provides a supportive environment for “looked after” children across London, Kent, West and East Sussex and Surrey.

Just like parents, foster carers can be any gender or religion, married, single, retired, working full or part time, own their home or live in rented accommodation. 

You don’t have to have children of your own or commit to long term fostering, as carers are also needed to provide short term care for a few weeks or months at a time.

Ashford Sings will be performing in Trafalgar Square on 21 December at 5pm.

To watch the Welcome Home video and hear the track visit: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IynLhyWGBXk

Pictured top: The Ashford Sings choir (Picture: Alice Denny)