Welcome
On behalf of Asthma UK, I’m delighted to welcome you to our tenth annual carol
service, in the presence of Her Royal Highness The Duchess of Gloucester, to raise
vital funds to support the charity’s work.
As we gather for the forthcoming festivities with our nearest and dearest, I can’t help
but think of the three families whose lives are devastated by the loss of a loved one
every day across the UK, particularly those who have to live with the knowledge that
many of these deaths could have been prevented with basic routine care. More than
a thousand families will have an empty seat at their table this Christmas and Asthma
UK is dedicated to stopping this happening to more.
We’re both the leading charity funder of asthma research in the UK and the only
charity providing world class support and advice to the 1 in every 11 people who
have asthma in the UK. Our vision is to stop asthma attacks and, ultimately, cure
asthma. Events such as tonight’s carol service are vital in helping us achieve this.
I’m thrilled to see so many of our loyal supporters as well as new faces here tonight
and want to thank you all very much for your goodwill and generosity. I’d particularly
like to take this opportunity to thank the organising Committee; Judy Chilton, Sarah
Habib, Sophie Meek and Sarah Wilkinson, as without their generous support, time
and enthusiasm the carol service would not be possible.
We’re also very grateful to our royal patron, Her Royal Highness The Duchess of
Gloucester, for attending this evening. Special thanks also go to our readers, Julian
Fellowes, Patricia Hodge, Kirsten O’Brien and Zoë Wanamaker, solo singer Margaret
Keys and to Jeremy Walker and the Boys’ Choir of Westminster Under School for
giving up their time to make this evening so special. Finally we are most grateful
to our sponsor KX for their generous support and all the companies who have
contributed to the success of the event by purchasing an advert in this programme.
Wishing you a wonderful evening and a happy Christmas,
Kay Boycott
Chief Executive, Asthma UK
For more information about Asthma UK, visit www.asthma.org.uk or call our Helpline
on 0800 121 6244.
Music
Readers
Westminster Boys’ Choir directed by Jeremy Walker (Director of Music)
Julian Fellowes
Julian Fellowes is an actor, writer, director and producer. As an actor, he is probably
best known for the BBC series, Aristocrats, and Lord Kilwillie in Monarch of the
Glen. Julian wrote the screenplay of The Young Victoria, released in 2009 and was a
writer on The Tourist, starring Johnny Depp and Angelina Jolie. His television series,
Downton Abbey, with Maggie Smith, Elizabeth McGovern and Hugh Bonneville, had
a tremendously successful launch in the autumn of 2010, followed by an equally
well received second, third and fourth series. In 2011, the show won six Emmys in
Los Angeles, as well as a Golden Globe, the Producer’s Guild Award and the prize
for Best Drama at the National Television Awards. It was nominated for sixteen
Emmys for the second season, and was nominated for twelve in 2013. In January
2011, he was awarded a peerage and became Lord Fellowes of West Stafford as a
Conservative member of the House of Lords.
Westminster Boys’ Choir
Westminster Boys’ Choir is drawn from the pupils of Westminster Under School. They
frequently perform at prestigious London venues, including Westminster Abbey and
St John’s Smith Square. They have also performed live on television and radio and
have appeared with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra at the Barbican Hall, with the
English Chamber Orchestra and Sir Thomas Allen at Cadogan Hall and with cellist,
Julian Lloyd Webber. They have toured widely, throughout Europe, to Canada, the
USA, China and South Africa, and have three times been category finalists in the
National Choir of the Year competition.
Choir
Head Choristers: Gianfranco Ameri and Iskander Mathews
Calum Baker
Arthur Balik
Philip Balkan
Armaan Banerjee
Zacharias Brandman
Paul Colfer
Alexander Davies
Tom De Csilléry
Daniel Ekaette
Amir El Bishlawi
James Ellis
Wilder Fulford
Zac Grassby
Ewan Hincks
Zaki Hutchings
Thomas Kemball
Theophilus Mackenzie
Faizan Malik
Nicholas Mallinckrodt
Lucas Mandic-Tyler
Daniel O’Keefe
Johan Orly
Alexander Orr
Jean-Sebastien Paul
Max Peel
Arthur Pickering
Stanislav Pikovsky
Alexander Rashidian
John Ridley
Oscar Riley
Daniele Scimone
Hector Sheppard
Nicholas Van Dusen
Jadd Virji
Benedict Weiss
Freddy Wickham
James Woodward
Rei Yamahara
Maxime Zigrand
Margaret Keys
Margaret Keys is an Irish classical crossover soprano from Derry, Northern Ireland,
who is signed with Universal Records. At the age of 15 Margaret was winner of
the Trinity College of Music London Medal for the best overall performer in music
examinations. Since graduating with a First Class Honours and a Masters degree in
Vocal performance, Margaret has sung extensively throughout Ireland, UK, America,
New Zealand and Australia. She has performed to an audience of 35,000 in a special
International Lakeside Proms concert and performed on the PBS American TV Special
with “The Priests”, which was aired in the USA. Margaret joined Russell Watson and
Escala in this year’s Party in the Park Concert and was special guest soloist in the
BBC Songs of Praise broadcast from Ireland, presented by Eamonn Holmes.
Patricia Hodge
Patricia Hodge has worked extensively in all aspects of the media, collecting five
award nominations. Television credits include Hotel du Lac, Rumpole of the Bailey,
The Life & Loves of a She-Devil and The Cloning of Joanna May. Her films include
Sunset with Bruce Willis, and Harold Pinter’s Betrayal with Jeremy Irons and Ben
Kingsley. Her many appearances on the London stage include Noel and Gertie, The
Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, Benefactors, Boeing-Boeing, The Country Wife, Calendar
Girls and most recently Relative Values. At the Royal National Theatre: A Little Night
Music, Money, Summerfolk, Noises Off and His Dark Materials, and she received an
Olivier Award in 2000. Her most recent television work includes Sweet Medicine,
Margaret Thatcher in The Falklands Play and three series of Miranda for BBC2.
Kirsten O’Brien
Kirsten O’Brien is a TV and radio presenter who currently presents Heart Breakfast
on Heart Wiltshire. Some of her recent TV credits include The One Show, Inside Out,
Let’s Dance for Sports Relief and Urban Jungle for BBC One as well as many other
entertainment shows for Channel 5 and the BBC. A generation of children grew up
with Kirsten as one of the main presenters of CBBC’s SMart from 1994 – 2009.
Zoë Wanamaker
Zoë Wanamaker is an American born British actress. In addition to her many acting
awards, she holds honours from the South Bank University, Richmond American
International University of London and the University of East Anglia. Zoë was
honoured a CBE in 2000 by The Queen in the New Year’s Honour list. Zoë played
the cat in Dick Whittington, as well as starring in The Family, Harry Potter and the
Sorcerer’s Stone and My Week with Marilyn. Last year she starred in BBC Four’s
Wodehouse in Exile whilst appearing on stage earlier this year in Stevie at Chichester
Festival Theatre.
Order of service
Once in Royal David’s City
(remain seated)
Solo treble
Once in Royal David’s city
Stood a lowly cattle shed,
Where a mother laid her Baby
In a manger for His bed;
Mary was that mother mild,
Jesus Christ her little Child.
(stand)
All
He came down to earth from
heaven,
Who is God and Lord of all,
And His shelter was a stable,
And His cradle was a stall;
With the poor, and mean, and
lowly,
Lived on earth our Saviour holy.
And through all His wondrous
childhood
He would honour and obey,
Love, and watch the lowly
maiden,
in whose gentle arms He lay;
Christian children all must be
Mild, obedient, good as He.
For he is our childhood’s pattern
Day by day, like us He grew;
He was little, weak and helpless,
Tears and smiles like us He
knew;
And He feeleth for our sadness,
And He shareth in our gladness.
Choir
And our eyes at last shall see
Him,
Through His own redeeming
love;
For that child so dear and gentle
Is our Lord in heaven above,
And He leads His children on
To the place where He is gone.
Twas the Night before Christmas
Not in that poor lowly stable,
With the oxen standing by,
We shall see Him; but in heaven,
Set at God’s right hand on high;
Where like stars His children
crowned,
All in white shall wait around.
Reading
(sit)
Welcome and opening prayer
The Reverend Dr Carys Walsh
St Luke’s Church
Gaudete
Words and melody from Piae
Cantiones, 1582
Arranged by Jeremy Walker
(b.1957)
Reading
by Clement Moore
Kirsten O’Brien
Solo
The Candlelight Carol
Words and music by John Rutter
Margaret Keys
Luke, Chapter 2:8-20
Calum Baker
Choir
Mid-Winter
Words by Christina Rossetti
(1830-94)
Music by Bob Chilcott (b.1955)
O Little Town of Bethlehem
(stand)
All
O little town of Bethlehem
How still we see thee lie
Above thy deep and dreamless
sleep
The silent stars go by.
Yet in thy dark streets shineth
The everlasting light;
The hopes and fears of all the
years
Are met in thee tonight.
O morning stars, together
Proclaim the holy birth,
And praises sing to God the
king,
And peace to men on earth;
For Christ is born of Mary;
And, gathered all above,
While mortals sleep, the angels
keep
Their watch of wond’ring love.
Choir only
How silently, how silently,
The wondrous gift is giv’n!
So God imparts to human hearts
The blessings of His heav’n.
No ear may hear His coming;
But in this world of sin,
Where meek souls will receive
Him, still,
The dear Christ enters in.
All
While Shepherds Watched
O holy Child of Bethlehem,
Descend to us, we pray;
Cast out our sin and enter in,
Be born to us today.
We hear the Christmas angels
The great glad tidings tell:
O come to us, abide with us,
Our Lord Emmanuel.
(stand)
(sit)
Reading
An extract from A Christmas
Carol
by Charles Dickens
Zoë Wanamaker
Solo
O Holy Night
by Adolphe Adam
Margaret Keys and choir
All
While shepherds watched their
flocks by night,
All seated on the ground,
The angel of the Lord came
down,
And glory shone around.
“Fear not,” said he, for mighty
dread
Had seized their troubled minds,
“Glad tidings of great joy I
bring,
To you and all mankind.
“To you in David’s town, this
day
Is born of David’s line,
A Saviour who is Christ the Lord;
And this shall be the sign:
Reading
King John’s Christmas
by A. A. Milne
Julian Fellowes
“The heavenly babe you there
shall find
To human view displayed,
And meanly wrapped in
swathing bands,
And in a manger laid.”
Thus speak the seraph; and
forthwith
Appeared a shining throng
Of angels, praising God, who
thus
Addressed their joyful song:
“All glory be to God on high,
And to the earth be peace;
Goodwill henceforth from
heaven to man,
Begin and never cease!
(sit)
Reading
The Boy Actor
by Noël Coward
Patricia Hodge
Choir
Ding Dong! Merrily on High
Words
by G.R. Woodward (1834-1934)
16th century French melody
Arranged by Howard Cable
(b.1920)
Thanks
Professor Robert Wilson
Chairman, Asthma UK
O come all ye faithful
(stand)
O come all ye faithful,
Joyful and triumphant,
O come ye, O come ye, to
Bethlehem;
Come and behold Him,
Born the King of Angels;
O come, let us adore him,
O come, let us adore him,
O come, let us adore him,
Christ the Lord.
God of God, light of light,
Lo! He abhors not the virgin’s
womb;
Very God, begotten not created:
Sing choirs of angels,
Sing in exultation,
Sing all ye citizens of heav’n
above,
Glory to God in the highest:
(sit)
Blessing
The Reverend Dr Carys Walsh
St Luke’s Church
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A message from St Luke’s Church
Welcome to St Luke’s, Chelsea to sing carols, celebrate the Christmas story and
support the invaluable work of Asthma UK.
In an age when the vehicles of social media enable us to contact each other
anywhere and at any time, it is extraordinarily powerful that people, like you, still
wish to come together on a dark, cold night to celebrate this enduring mystery
of Christmas. Of course, even 2000 years ago in Palestine the birth of Jesus
drew people together in strange combinations - a pregnant teenager, shepherds,
innkeepers, magi and the downright curious. And so it remains. Responding to this
human image of God has, through the centuries, inspired men, women and children
to act with generosity and compassion, some in faith and others out of human
solidarity. Your being here, through your prayers, your work, your commitment in
energy and financial resource, enables truly inspirational work to go on, work which
mirrors the generosity of God in the gift of the baby of Bethlehem.
That too was a gift which was given, as the gospel story reminds us, at night
amongst vulnerable people, limited resources and an uncertain future, but a gift
which transformed lives. I trust that your presence in the darkness of this evening,
will enlighten both you and the recipients of your generosity to see and live in the
light of a fuller humanity. Indeed, may your Christmas celebrations tonight, and
when the feast of Christmas arrives, fill you and your families and friends, as well
as the work of Asthma UK with a sense of the enduring love which God has for all
humanity, all the brothers and sisters of that baby at Bethlehem.
You are, of course, very welcome at any of our services in this parish at Christmas
and beyond. If the clergy can be of assistance to you please do not hesitate to
contact us – www.chelseaparish.org – 020 7351 7365.
Christmas Service dates: Christ Church Carol Service Sunday December 14th at 1730,
St Luke’s Carol Service December 21st at 6.30 pm; Christmas Eve 1600 Crib Services
both churches, 2330 Midnight Mass at St Luke’s, Christmas Day 0800 and 1030
Christmas Eucharist at St Luke’s and 1100 at Christ Church.
A very blessed Christmas to you, thank you for being here and sing up!
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Get involved in 2015
Asthma UK’s fundraising events for the year ahead
Running Events
Virgin London Marathon
One of the most famous marathons in the
world on 26 April 2015.
Bupa London 10,000
The Bupa London 10,000 starts in St James’s
Park and features sights such as Big Ben on
25 May 2015.
Edinburgh Marathon Festival
Flat and fast, the Edinburgh Marathon has in
the past been voted the fastest marathon in
the UK by Runners World, takes place on 3
May 2015.
Big Purple Walk
Perfect for schools and children of all ages,
the Big Purple Walk is a chance for everyone
to get involved in a fun, energetic walk or run
to raise money for Asthma UK!
Royal Parks Half Marathon
Run through 500 years’ worth of history in
an iconic half marathon through one of the
most famous cities in the world, London on 11
October 2015.
The Big Fun Series
These 5K runs are being staged all across the
UK throughout the summer and autumn and
are suitable for all the family to take part in.
Cycling Events
For more information about these events or any other challenge
we can support you with, please contact the Fundraising Team
on 0800 121 62 44 or email [email protected]
Overseas and UK Challenges
Social Events
Ride London 100
Take part in this Olympic legacy event and
join over 25,000 cyclists on this 100-mile ride
around the capital on 2 August 2015.
London 2 Brighton Challenge
The London 2 Brighton Challenge will be a
definitive test of endurance, determination,
and teamwork on 23–24 May 2015.
Asthma Gift Fair
A chance for some early Christmas Shopping
at the prestigious Hurlingham Club in October
2015, date tbc.
London to Brighton Bike Ride
Join over 2,000 people on this 54-mile journey
September 2015.
Grand Union Challenge
Run, jog or walk along Britain’s longest
waterways, from London to the picturesque
Chilterns on 27-28 June 2015.
Join a Fundraising Event Committee
Do you think you could devote a few hours
a month to support one of our social events
through inviting your contacts, sourcing prizes
for fundraising activities or working with
companies you are involved with to generate
advertising and sponsorship? If the answer is
yes, we would love to hear from you.
London to Paris
Come and join us on the London to Paris bike
ride, an amazing charity challenge starting
from the UK’s capital, through the English
countryside over to rural France and on to the
heart of Paris, finishing under the Eiffel Tower!
Dates throughout the year.
Lands End to John O’ Groats
Pedal 1000 miles, end to end, on this classic
challenge from Land’s End to John O’Groats,
the furthest possible distance in the British
Isles. Dates throughout the year.
Organise your own cycle
If you’re feeling creative, why not organise
your own cycling event? There’s plenty of
amazing cycle routes throughout the UK
that we can recommend, and the community
team will be here to provide you with all the
support you need.
Asthma UK Helpline
0800 121 62 44
Thames Path Challenge
The Thames Path National Trail is unique;
beautiful scenery, steeped in history - and a
superb backdrop for an exceptional challenge
on 12–13 September 2015.
Kilimanjaro Trek
Take on a true challenge of a lifetime and
summit the world’s highest freestanding
mountain. Dates throughout the year.
Three Peaks Challenge
Re-discover the beauty of the UK from its
highest points. Climb the highest peaks in
each of the home nations. Dates throughout
the year.
Skydive
Jump for Asthma UK at a choice of over 20
jump sites across the UK.
Email us
[email protected]
Organise your own ball/black tie dinner
Inspired by the 2014 Breathtaking Ball? Why
not get suited and booted for your very own
black-tie dinner to raise money for Asthma UK!
Organising a ball or black tie dinner is a
fantastic way of getting all your friends and
family involved in a night of entertainment,
glamour and sophistication.
We will be on hand to provide you with
a wide range of tips and tricks on how to
organise your own special night, which is sure
to live long in the memory.
Visit the website
www.asthma.org.uk/fundraise-events
Acknowledgements
Asthma UK would like to thank everyone who has helped with this evening’s carol
service, in particular the following:
Our Royal Patron
HRH The Duchess of Gloucester for attending the event
Readers
Music
Julian Fellowes
Patricia Hodge
Kirsten O’Brien
Zoë Wanamaker
Westminster Boys’ Choir directed by
Jeremy Walker (Director of Music)
Carol Service Committee
Judy Chilton
Sarah Habib
Sophie Meek
Sarah Wilkinson
Simon McGregor, organist
Edmund Jolliffe, piano
Becky Thorn, clarinet
Claire Roff, violin
Oakki Lau, violin/viola
Tony Woollard, cello
Dan Swana, double bass
Polly McMillan, percussion
Margaret Keys, soprano
Sponsor
Also to
The Reverend Dr Carys Walsh, Vivien Tyler and all the staff at St Luke’s Church;
The Chelsea Gardener for their decoration of the church;
All of our advertisers for their support.