A YOUTH CHOIR will put on a show for children’s charity The Little Princess Trust – and it was the choir children themselves who suggested it.

Young singers from the Herefordshire Junior Youth Choir are set to perform a wide range of classics, including Mozart’s Ave Verum and Disney hits from Beauty and the Beast.

The choir received a Distinction when they sang at the Herefordshire Performing Arts Festival.

The concert will take place at 7pm on Wednesday, June 28 at St John’s Church in St Owen Street, Hereford. Admission is free with a collection at the end to raise funds for the charity, which provides real hair wigs, free of charge, to children who suffer hair loss due to cancer treatment and other illnesses.

Choir director Rachael Toolan, also head of music at Hereford Cathedral Junior School, said: “I was absolutely delighted when the children suggested that we did a concert to raise money and awareness for The Little Princess Trust. It is so important to them to help young people of their own age.”

Rachael set up the choir two years ago and it has grown to 45 young singers, aged seven to 14, from across Herefordshire schools. Pupils meet on Saturdays and come from locations around the region such as Hereford, Ledbury, Much Birch, Abergavenny, Leominster, Kingsland and Kington.