Encore! Opera for pensioners at Abbey Community Centre
Published: 02 September, 2010
by JOSIE HINTON
PENSIONERS in their glad rags were treated to a charity opera concert on Tuesday.
The Abbey Community Centre, in Belsize Road, West Hampstead, hosted a performance from Connaught Opera – a charity singing group which lays on free entertainment for over-60s.
Sponsored by the Hampstead Wells and Campden Trust, which provides grants for the elderly, the trio visit hospitals, day care centres, sheltered housing and community-based clubs to perform.
Pensioner Bell Johanason said: “It was like a past era. It was wonderful.”
Abbey Community Centre manager Jane Edwards added: “The consensus from the audience was that it was a fantastic evening and we were repeatedly asked when we could do it again.”
The evening was hosted by the community centre and the Kilburn Good Neighbours Scheme.