Choral Foundation
Leeds has no choir school nor any large-scale endowments. An appeal for £500,000 was launched in 2002; by 2008, £406,000 had been raised, of which £22,000 has been sponsorship to cover specific expenditure and £28,000 has been paid in grants to the choral foundation. The administrative costs of the appeal from 2002–8 are less than £2,000 leaving £352,000 invested towards the target of £500,000 endowment for the choir. The Church Urban Fund supported the work of Ashley Francis-Roy as the church's first choral outreach animateur during the academic year 2010/2011 and Helen Strange in this capacity for 2011/2012 with funding provided by the Hesco Bastion Foundation.
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