Concert in aid of The Police Treatment Centre
Saturday 18th May 2024, 7:30pm
Ripon Cathedral
For one night only, the British Police Symphony Orchestra’s Musical Director switches his baton for his cello. Dr Richard Jenkinson, a member of the Dante String Quartet and previously the principal cellist of the CBSO, gets to face the audience and perform the stunning Elgar Cello Concert as the opener to the BPSO’s first concert in the stunning Ripon Cathedral.
With guest conductor Malcolm Webb quite literally picking up the baton, the award-winning BPSO provides the accompaniment to what is one of the most famous and loved pieces of English orchestral music.
The orchestra will also be performing the ballet music from Holst’s comic opera The Perfect Fool and, Elgar’s Cockaigne Overture, finishing with Respighi’s Pines of Rome.
The Police Treatment Centre
All profits from the concert will go to support The Police Treatment Centres, a registered charity which provides first class rehabilitation centres in Harrogate (North Yorkshire) and Auchterarder (Perthshire).
These police-specific facilities deliver physical rehabilitation and psychological well-being support for conditions or injuries sustained on or off duty for members of 28 UK forces.
It costs £6.5 million a year to run these centres, 90% of which is funded by officer donations. Fundraising events such as the BPSO’s concert are vital to ensure that The Police Treatment Centres can continue to meet the increasing physical and psychological well-being needs of the ever-changing police family.
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The concert would not be possible without the support of Cloud Gateway, our sponsor.
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“We are delighted to sponsor the British Police Symphony Orchestra and become part of such a wonderful community of volunteers. Now in its fourth decade, the BPSO has become one of the best national, non-professional orchestras in the country. Its members generously volunteer thousands of hours of their time raising money for charity and undertaking outreach projects, and we are very proud to support them in these efforts.”
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The British Police Symphony Orchestra
The British Police Symphony Orchestra is a UK registered charity. The orchestra comprises serving and retired officers, support staff and close members of the wider police family. All concerts support charitable causes. Through these performances and the orchestra’s outreach projects – Playout!, the BPSO engages with a wide range of other charities, excites audiences of all ages and enlightens by providing enrichment opportunities, through music, to all for whom this may otherwise be inaccessible.