Fundraiser wins standing ovation!

We received also our first corporate donations. Thank you to Britain’s PwC for its donation and to Iraq’s QiCard financial services transaction group for sponsoring the reception.

We are grateful to everyone who came along and supported the concert, a moving and haunting performance of The Cry by Adrian Snell with the Royal Holloway Choir, Windsor Children’s Choir and Berkshire Maestro orchestra.

At the event, BC Chairman Ed Newell formally announced the launch of our charity fundraiser and concluded by leading a Naming ceremony and lighting of candles to remember nine children from across the world and history who died in war: including children who died in WW1 and WW2, right up to current day conflicts in Iraq, Syria and Kashmir. The youngest victims were just a few months old.

Composer Adrian Snell gave an impassioned speech on the creative genesis of The Cry and why he has chosen to back Beyond Conflict. He had this to say after the concert:

“I’m…almost speechless! But not speechless enough to say just how thrilled, delighted, overwhelmed I was by Friday’s beautiful, deeply moving and inspiring performance of ‘The Cry… Most significantly of all, BEYOND CONFLICT has come into being….and I can’t think of an organization, charity, vision that more closely fits with the whole theme of this work. What a JOY to be able to harness performances of The Cry to something so very necessary, practical, passionate, and NOW.”