City of Stoke-on-Trent Male Voice Choir’s dementia fundraising tour

That this House congratulates The City of Stoke-on-Trent Male Voice Choir on their initiative to raise funds and awareness for dementia; recognises that the choir will be giving concerts in all six towns which form the city, Tunstall, Burslem, Hanley, Fenton, Longton and Stoke; notes that singing can support wellbeing and cognitive function, and that the choir is recruiting 40 men to learn to sing for dementia and join them on their concert tour; acknowledges the choir’s proud 76-year history, beginning as the Parkhall Colliery Male Voice Choir in Stoke-on-Trent South, and its long record of entertaining audiences; and wishes them every success in their efforts.