Cornish Choristers fund 10,000 vaccines for poorer countries via Sing2G7

Truro Cathedral choristers are celebrating the success of their Unicef VaccinAid Crowdfunder which raised £8,434, nearly 70% more than their original £5,000 target. The sum will enable Unicef to provide over 10,000 Covid-19 vaccine doses.

The fundraiser took place as part of the recent Sing2G7 project, through which the Cornish choristers inspired children across the globe to raise their voices in song to world leaders. Over 27,000 children in 31 countries, from Australia to Alaska, Japan to Mexico, South Africa to Canada and USA signed up to sing ‘Gee Seven’, written specially for the project by Sir Tim Rice and Peter Hobbs. Well over 300 schools across UK took part, from Bristol to Birmingham, Newcastle to Thurrock as well as countless churches and over 20 cathedrals in UK and abroad.

As singers registered, the Sing2G7 organisers and choristers became keenly aware of how vulnerable to Covid many of their fellow young singers around the world were. They decided to give all royalties from their ‘Gee Seven’ single to VaccinAid and the Sing2G7 VaccinAid Crowd Funder was launched as a practical expression of this concern with the appeal to raise £5,000 representing the choristers’ own practical application of the last lines of ‘Gee Seven’ with their bold challenge:

Gee Seven – let nation speak to nation

Gee Seven – don’t let the others down

Gee Seven – don’t forget the not so fortunate

Gee -Seven – or we’ll run you out of town

Sing2G7’s VaccinAid appeal attracted support from far and wide, including from the original Poldark actor, Robin Ellis and from the former Prime Minister Gordon Brown. Now the UN Envoy for Education, Mr Brown sent a personal video message of encouragement to the 1,400 children who joined a Sing2G7 Mega Zoom across 14 timezones at the time of the Summit