A popular Newquay choir put on a show to help raise £500 for charity.

Newquay Male Voice Choir performed an evening of song as guests of Nankersey Male Choir at the All Saints Church in Falmouth in aid of the for the Motor Neurone Disease Association. The concert was also held to mark the 75th anniversary of Nankersey Male Choir.

Jim Christophers, the concert coordinator for Newquay Male Voice Choir, said: “All Saints Church has a wonderful acoustic that both choirs used to best effect in their singing of a wide range of pieces from across the breadth of the male voice choir repertoire. A large audience was royally entertained and £500 was raised to support the charity.”

Newquay Male Voice Choir was presented with the President’s Plate during the evening by Steve Ley, the chairman of the Cornish Federation of Male Choirs, which is awarded annually to a choir that stands out from the crowd in its fund-raising and community-based activities.

Brian Battye, the chairman of Newquay Male Voice Choir, accepted the award on behalf of the choir.

Mr Battye said: “Newquay Male Voice Choir feels honoured and privileged to have received the President’s Plate award in recognition for events and activities we undertook in 2025, our golden anniversary year, and to make it even more special we are the only choir to have been awarded it for a third time.

“The award recognised our fund raising for Prostate Cancer UK, our community-based monthly fund-raising bingo sessions and our interest and success in establishing relationships with other choirs, both from within the Duchy and beyond.

“The choir is hugely grateful to Andrea Hall and her team whose fund-raising work underpinned much that led to us being given the award.”