Wirksworth Community Choir are a small, but perfectly formed, four part choir and we are looking for new members. All voice parts are very welcome….especially tenors. We have a variety of abilities and our well known musical director, Adam Green, encourages everyone’s best, to produce great choral singing. We have no audition but the ability to read music is a plus, though not a necessity. We have performed in and around Wirksworth for 40 years and sing anything from Britten

Claire De la Haye (Musical Director of the choir) and James Churchill (Chair of trustees) presenting Roger Cassidy, Chair of Aquabox Trustees (centre) with a cheque from profits on the September concert in the Aquabox warehouse in Wirksworth Just try to imagine a place with no safe water supply and / or open sewage in the street. It could be a muddy desert water hole or there might be too much water around but it is all contaminated. This week it could be Sudan, Jamaica or Ga

Wirksworth once again celebrated Fairtrade Fortnight, after a break of many years. First accredited by the Fairtrade Foundation as a Fairtrade Town back in 2009, in recent years this status has lapsed. A Wirksworth Fairtrade Town Team of local people has recently come together to build on the foundations already laid, re-invigorate Fairtrade in Wirksworth, and win back Fairtrade Town status. Fairtrade Fortnight (September 22 – October 5) celebrates the farmers and workers be