Activities

Performances

The orchestra usually performs two or three formal or informal concerts every year, in churches, schools or community buildings in Norfolk or Suffolk and often to assist other charities and deserving causes with their fundraising activities.

If we can assist you or your group in that regard, our Director of Music will be pleased to suggest a programme suited to the occasion and the venue.

Open Events

We hold ‘Come and Play’ days at least once per year. They’re open to all players subject only to a few necessary restrictions, a minimum level of ability primarily to ensure players’ personal enjoyment and the availability of places.

Demonstrations

We can provide a sizeable orchestra, a smaller instrumental group or just one or two players to demonstrate music and or demonstrate specific instruments to schoolchildren or community groups. We will be pleased to discuss your ideas and possible requirements.

Please contact the Chair of the Pulham Orchestra Committee to enquire about any of our activities or for more information.

Music for special occasions

A five-minute solo, some background or incidental music or a full two-hour concert - our Director of Music will be pleased to discuss and suggest a programme suited to the occasion, the venue and available performers. We particularly enjoy working with choirs, an activity which adds a welcome further dimension to our music making and to our repertoire!

Support

As a registered charity, we are committed to support music in schools and the community with performances, monetary donations or in some cases by providing instruments on a loan basis.

In recent years we have:

  • Donated to the Norwich Music Library to support the availability of printed music known as ‘orchestral sets’ to local orchestras.
  • Loaned a child-sized double bass to the Norwich ‘Sistema’ group, for use by one or more of its younger players.
  • Donated to Castle East School at Bungay, Suffolk, (a school for children with special educational needs) for the purchase of a variety of 'child-friendly' musical instruments (Instruments specially constructed to allow them to be maintained hygienically, thus enabling their use by more than one pupil), enabling the school to add music to its curriculum.

 

Hire of Instruments

We have a limited range of musical instruments available for hire.

 

Our Patrons, Friends and Volunteers

It would be a considerable oversight not to include mention of these groups in the context of our activities, as without their support, some may simply not be possible! On the practical side, serving refreshments, welcoming audience members, helping to set out chairs, to move furniture for performances, or simply assisting with the distribution of publicity material, are all very necessary functions and roles in which volunteers can provide meaningful and much-valued assistance; free admission to performances being one of the rewards of course!

If you could help in any way, do please let us know. You can do so here.

However, financial support, particularly in the current climate, remains as welcome as ever. To put matters in context, the support we have been able to provide to other deserving groups in the last year (and thanks only to prudent financial management over a considerable period) equates, in monetary terms, with the total annual subscriptions of no less than 25 members – over two-thirds of the orchestra!

If you would like, therefore, to make a one-off donation, or perhaps become a ‘Friend’ of the orchestra by making a regular - either annual or half-yearly - contribution towards our work, please contact us via our General Enquiry form.