A charity concert featuring two local music groups raised more than £1,000 for charity.

Mansfield and District Male Voice Choir and Joseph Whitaker and Redhill Academy Jazz Group performed at St John’s Church, Mansfield, in aid of the National Association of Blood Bikes.

The choir performed a mixture of male voice choir standards and favourites as well as new songs from the modern era under musical director Ian Grice.

The jazz group, led by musical director Carolyn Beedle, had performed with the choir earlier this year in a concert for Ukraine at Ravenshead Village Hall.

The concert was requested by the family of Jean Hales and Denis Hales, who had both given sterling service to the choir for many years as choir committee members — Jean as secretary and Denis as deputy chairman and social secretary.

It was the choir’s fifth fundraising concert of 2022, which have so far realised more than £6,000.

The National Association of Blood Bikes, a rapid response, motorcycle-based charity, collects and delivers items such as blood, human donor milk, and faecal microbiome transplant material. The association of more than 40 blood bike groups annually deliver over 100,000 items to the NHS and Health and Safety Executive, free of charge.

Pictured is choir president David Marriott presenting a cheque for £1,050 to the charity’s former chairman John Devlin at a choir rehearsal. Also pictured are, from left, Ian Grice, Blood Bikes volunteer Franck van Huesen and the choir’s John Wakeland.