Welcome! Good evening Ladies and Gentlemen and welcome to the GLO Auditorium for our fourth annual Octave concert.  Since our concert last year we have entertained a number of groups for social events including Busby Parish Church Guild, Carstairs Church, Overtown Church and Guild in Wishaw and Macdonald Memorial Church in Bellshill. Octave also performed fundraising concerts at Orchardhill Parish Church in Giffnock and at St. Bernadette’s Parish Church in Motherwell helping these churches raise £1,000 for church funds and over £1,200 for their mission partnership with Namulenga in Malawi respectively. I would like to record my admiration for the eight singers and offer my sincere thanks to them. It has been a demanding rehearsal period with us taking on extra concerts as well as learning new material; however, they continually rise to the challenge and are, as always, a pleasure to be with. Our rehearsals are full-on, but fun and satisfying. My thanks also to you for supporting us and enabling us to raise funds this year for The Prince & Princess of Wales Hospice in Glasgow. Please sit back, relax and enjoy the show and I hope to welcome you back to our 2015 fundraising concerts. Now, it is time for us to GLO 4TH! Charitable Donations Octave is an entirely voluntary organisation and, after the deduction of running costs, surplus funds are donated to charity. The group nominates a charity each year. Following our previous annual concerts, we have been delighted to present a cheque for £1,000 each year to three very worthy causes; The British Heart Foundation, Maggie’s Caring Cancer Centre (based at Wishaw General Hospital) and Diabetes UK Scotland in 2011 to 2013 respectively. 2014 Charity – The Prince & Princess of Wales Hospice Octave has chosen to support The Prince & Princess of Wales Hospice with the proceeds from the 2014 concerts. The Hospice exists to help patients achieve the best quality of life possible in whatever time remains for them. Where it may not be possible to add days to lives, the hospice aims to add life to days. As a registered charity, care is free of charge so the Hospice depends on the generosity of supporters to raise the £5 million that is required each year to maintain their invaluable services for over 1,200 patients and their families. The Hospice has grown beyond recognition from its early beginnings. In 1983 it occupied just one Georgian townhouse in Carlton Place on the banks of the River Clyde in Glasgow city centre. Today it occupies four adjacent townhouses which now form a single building. The present facilities have been developed as far as possible but now constrain further growth. Therefore plans have been unveiled to build a new 21st century hospice near Bellahouston Park on Glasgow’s south side, which will enhance the current service and allow a lower age limit of 15 and above. In September 2012 the Hospice launched its ‘Brick by Brick Appeal’ to raise the remaining £15 million needed to build this new facility for the people of Glasgow. More information about this cause is available at www.ppwh.org.uk