A concert celebrating Waverley Care’s

21st birthday year

The Final
6 Carols premièred by Cadenza
Conducted by Jenny Sumerling
Hosted by Stephen Jardine
Saturday 27th November 2010

Sing a New Song competition sponsored by:

Sir Tom & Lady Farmer
Audience prize sponsored by:
Dear Friends,
Welcome to this very special concert, which marks Waverley Care’s 21st birthday year.
Over many years we have been delighted to organise an exciting range of ‘Come & Sing’ events,
which have brought great pleasure to thousands of people and offered the opportunity to work
with some of the UK’s best conductors. It seemed fitting, for our 21st birthday year, to try to leave
a lasting musical legacy and so, with the support and encouragement of two of our Patrons,
Bob Chilcott and Sir Tom Farmer, we launched our ‘Sing a New Song’ Christmas carol writing
competition.
The response was overwhelming! We received 129 entries from all over the UK and beyond,
providing our preliminary judges, Tom Cunningham and Jenny Sumerling, with the fascinating
but challenging task of drawing up a short-list of 18 for consideration by our main judging panel,
Bob Chilcott, James MacMillan and Simon Woods.
Tonight you will hear the final six short-listed carols, performed by Cadenza. The judges have
already chosen their winner (which will be announced at the end of the concert) but you, the
audience, also have your opportunity to vote for your favourite!
It is highly appropriate that we combine this competition final with a ‘Come & Sing’ programme.
Our 300-strong chorus will perform a fantastic selection of works by Vaughan Williams, John
Rutter and Bob Chilcott. We continue to be very grateful for the wonderful and loyal support of
our singers, many of whom never miss any of our events!
On Wednesday next week (1st December), we will mark World AIDS Day, a day when we stand in
solidarity with those who are living with HIV and remember those who have died. We hope that,
on Wednesday, you will wear your Waverley Care tartan ribbon with pride, knowing that you have
helped us to make a positive difference to the lives of many people in Scotland who are living with
HIV.
Wishing you an enjoyable and memorable evening!

David Johnson
Director
Programme
Welcome: Stephen Jardine
Come & Sing Choir, conducted by Bob Chilcott
Where Riches is Everlastingly – Bob Chilcott
What Sweeter Music – John Rutter
Introduction to the competition: Bob Chilcott
Cadenza, conducted by Jenny Sumerling
There’s a Song in the Air – John Hearne
(words: Josiah G Holland 1872)
Light a Candle – Ian Assersohn (words: Ian Assersohn)
The Virgin’s Song – Hermione Roff (words: anon)
Come & Sing Choir
Angels Carol – John Rutter
Mid-Winter – Bob Chilcott
Candlelight Carol – John Rutter
Cadenza
Behold the Great Creator – John Lawson Baker
(words: Thomas Pestel 1584-1659)
This Endris night – Stef Conner (words: anon)
All this night bright angels sing – Owain Park
(words: W. Austin 1870)

INTERVAL
Please hand your voting slips in to Waverley Care staff.
Tea and coffee available in the downstairs foyer.

Come & Sing Choir

Fantasia on Christmas Carols – Ralph Vaughan Williams
Announcements and presentations
Caledonian Hilton Audience Prize
Presented by Robin Stewart, Director of Business Development,
Caledonian Hilton Hotel
Judges’ Runner-up
Presented by Sir Tom Farmer
Winner of the Sing a New Song Christmas Carol Writing
Competition
Presented by Sir Tom Farmer
Performance of the winning carol by Cadenza

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Programme Notes & Biographies of Short-listed Composers
John Hearne – There’s a Song in the Air
The poem is by an American journalist and author, Josiah G. Holland (1819-81) and
was published in 1872. It is now in the public domain.
Holland was a novelist and poet who also wrote under the pseudonym Timothy
Titcomb. He helped to found and edit Scribner’s Monthly (afterwards the Century
Magazine), in which appeared his novels, Arthur Bonnicastle, The Story of Sevenoaks,
Nicholas Minturn. In poetry he wrote Bitter Sweet (1858), Kathrina, the lyrics to
the Methodist Christmas Hymn There’s a Song in the Air, and many others. He was
descended from one of the original Pilgrim Fathers’ families. John’s setting of
Holland’s poem is simple and direct, with some development in the final verse to
illustrate the text.
John Hearne was born in England in 1937, his parents having come from Wales. Since
1970 he has lived in Scotland. He studied at University College of Wales, Aberystwyth
gaining a First Class Honours degree, a Masters degree and a Doctorate of Music (2004).
He taught music in Iceland and for 17 years was a lecturer at Aberdeen College of
Education.
John was the first Chairman of the Scottish Society of Composers, and was the Chairman
of the Scottish Music Advisory Committee of the BBC from 1986 to 1990. He is now
a freelance composer, copyist and conductor. He was a District Councillor for East
Scotland for the ISN for six years and was a member of the Executive Committee of the
Composers’ Guild of Great Britain. He was warden of the Performers and Composers
Section of the ISM (1999-2000) and is on the Board of Enterprise Music Scotland.

Ian Assersohn – Light a Candle

Candles have a long association with Christmas and Jesus, but they are also closely
associated with other midwinter festivals like Chanukah and Diwali. This carol
celebrates the humble candle as a potent symbol of renewal and hope for the future
at the darkest time of year. The original lyrics are by the composer.
Ian Assersohn studied piano and composition at the Royal College of Music in
London followed by a year at the Koninklijk Conservatorium in Den Haag. On leaving
college for several years he ran a small studio producing music for advertising and
documentaries. He is an experienced choral director and accompanist. Currently he
is musical director of Leatherhead Coral Society, Concordia Singers and Leatherhead
Orchestra, and has a thriving private teaching practice. Ian lives in Surrey with his wife
and family.

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 Hermione Roff – The Virgin’s Song
This carol is shaped by the intense, contrasting moods and emotions of the poem.
Here, Mary, a new mother of a baby born in poverty, sings both a lullaby and an
indignant protest song. She is full of love and tenderness as she sooths her baby,
giving Him everything He could possibly need. She is outraged at the circumstances
of His birth and the inability of someone of her social class to provide for His physical
needs. The music echoes these strong emotions in the contrasting phases of a
sorrowful lullaby and the stronger harmonic sequences of protest. There is a similar
juxtaposition of dynamic and tempi. In the end she quietly rocks and soothes her
baby in devotion and love and gratitude.
Hermione Roff has always been interested in music and singing. As a teenager she
joined the local Choral Society alongside her mother and it was a highlight every
Tuesday to go along and sing works like the Bach Passions and Gerontius and music by
composers like Britten and Faure.
Wherever she has lived she has always sought out a choir to sing with. She finds it
a joy to sing about things she believes in and can enter into, in an emotional and
intellectual way.
As a composer she has written several short pieces for choirs and also for special
family occasions making use of whatever talent is available.
Most of her working life has been spent as a Senior Research Therapist within
Academy Child Mental Health services in the NHS. She lives and works in Lancaster.

John Lawson Baker – Behold, the Great Creator

This carol is a setting of a Christmas poem by Thomas Pestel, who lived from 1584 to
1659, which expresses the wonder of the Incarnation, the intersection of the eternal
and the temporal in the birth of Christ. The carol tries to capture this in musical terms,
starting and ending meditatively but with a much more active middle section, where
the four crochets per bar are divided into groups of eight quavers (3+3+2 or 3+2+3
typically) but crucially at the same metronome marking, expressing the intervention
of the divine realm and the angelic choir into the physical reality of the cosmos, the
shepherds and the wise men.
John Lawson Baker was born in 1939, qualified as an architect and is self-taught as
a composer, apart from a few lessons with Thea Musgrave and some friendly advice
from Alan Ridout and Peter Aston. He has sung in church and cathedral choirs for
much of his life. His choral works have been sung by the choirs of Ely and Norwich
Cathedrals, by the Rochester Cathedral Special Choir, the Ashwell Festival Choir, the
Ely Choral Society, the St. Peter’s Singers of Ely and various other church and chamber
choirs. He has won competitions organised by RSCM Norfolk and Norwich area, the
Chantry Quire of Chichester, The Hymn Society of Great Britain and Ireland, and the
Archdeaconry of Cambridge. Several of his pieces are published by Animus and Fagus
and his hymn tunes by the Jubilate Group. He is retired and lives in Ely.

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 Stef Conner – This Endris Night (The Other Night)
The English ‘carol’ is a form that evolved between the 13th and 16th centuries from song
and dance styles that were not necessarily religious. Much religious music possesses
a cloistered austerity that somewhat separates it from corporeality, whereas, secular
music and folk songs tend to reference the reality of daily life and the subjective human
experience with directness and simplicity. It is this humble, personal quality that I wanted
to capture, evoking the most human aspects of the nativity. The anonymous 15th century
text ‘This Endris Night’ is a touching depiction of a mother rocking her child, which grows
steadily darker as the child predicts the sufferings of its adult life, bemoaning mankind’s
weakness. The image of an inhumanely wise infant is beautifully naive yet timelessly
affecting; this combination of gentle maternal warmth and tragic sadness – so often the
striking qualities that distinguish great folk songs – is something I tried to respond to in my
a capella setting. The voices are soft and gentle; harmonies are subtle and slow, growing
steadily richer and more abrasive as the tender lyric becomes tinged with bitterness.
Stef Conner specialises in contemporary vocal music and jazz composition. Her work has been
performed in York, London and Beijing, and on BBC Radio 2. She has composed for stylistically
diverse artists, including the Chimera Ensemble, the Unthanks, the Julian Arguelles Octet, John
Potter, Juice, Trydydd, Bright Cecilia, the University of York Chamber Orchestra and the 24. Her
latest commission will be performed by the Nieuw Ensemble at Huddersfield Contemporary
Music Festival in November. Having completed her BA and MA at the University of York, Stef is
now in the final year of an AHRC-funded PhD in composition, also in York. She played for two
years in the band Rachel Unthank and in the Winterset, touring Europe, the USA and Australia,
performing on BBC Radio 2, Radio 4, Radio Ulster, 6 Music, RTE1 and BBC1, and at live shows
including the Mercury Music Awards, BBC Folk Awards, Glastonbury and Womad.

Owain Park – All this night bright angels sing

All this night bright angels sing is a very lively text and this inspired the upbeat tempo and feel.
The choral parts are quick but manageable and the organ part, in places, quite fiendish! The
rhythmic pulse drives the piece, with the time signature alternating between 7/8 and 4/4 to
provide contrast. A short introduction by the organ announces the arrival of this piece, with
the higher voices first setting out the melody, answered by the lower voices. All parts then
join together to see out the first verse in a mixture of harmony and unison. The second verse
is unaccompanied to vary the texture, and is slightly slower. A brief interlude from the organ
sets up the third and final verse, which mirrors the first in tempo and texture, but is added
to by a soprano descant. The piece ends with a quick run from the organ, over the sustained
voice parts, and a loud final pedal note. I hope Austen’s words were captured in a modern and
uplifting light.
Owain Park, 16, started his musical journey with the piano and then became a chorister in
Bristol which encouraged a love of choral music. He is a member of several choirs, and has
toured as both a singer and accompanist around many of the world’s cathedrals. Owain
also plays the trumpet and the organ. He recently won all of the Organ classes in the Bristol
Eisteddfod for the third year running. He is a ‘City Wait’ Bristol, which recognises musical
excellence and his contribution to the musical life of the city.
His winning entry in the NCEM Composers’ Competition, Sweet Day, was performed by the
Tallis Scholars and later broadcast on BBC Radio 3. Another composition, Tears, Idle Tears, was
selected as a ‘Highly Commended’ entry in the BBC Young Composers’ Competition, and was
also broadcast.
Owain attends Wells Cathedral School as a Music Specialist, and holds the position of Wells
Cathedral Organ Scholar. He hopes to take up a place at an Oxbridge college with an Organ
Scholarship, studying music.

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Programme Notes – Vaughan Williams – Fantasia on Christmas Carols
Ralph Vaughan Williams (1872-1958) was an outstanding 20th-century composer, and
one of a handful of British composers whose achievements rank equal in genius with
that of Henry Purcell. Drawing on the rich treasury of national folk song and dance, he
created a uniquely English style that is also universal in its range of appeal.
The Fantasia, derived from his reforming work as editor of the English Hymnal, is
founded on traditional English carols: The truth sent from above, words and tune;
Come all you worthy gentlemen, words and tune; On Christmas night, words and tune;
There is a fountain, tune only; together with fragments of other well known carol
tunes. The work is dedicated to Cecil Sharp, an English musician noted for his work as
a collector of English folk song and dance.

Biographies
Bob Chilcott – Conductor and Competition Judge
Described by the Observer as “a contemporary hero of British Choral Music”, Bob Chilcott
works tirelessly as a composer and choral conductor. He has over 125 pieces published
by Oxford University Press and his music is performed throughout the world.
Since 2002 he has been Principal Guest Conductor of the BBC Singers. He has conducted
other distinguished choirs including RIAS Kammerchor in Berlin, Vancouver Chamber
Choir, Jauna Musika in Lithuania, the World Youth Choir, Tower New Zealand Youth
Choir, Taipei Chamber Singers, Wroclaw Philharmonic Choir, and the Kyoto Echo Choir
in Japan. He leads singing days for communities and schools in Britain and since 1997
has conducted and given workshops in 23 countries. In 2011 he is Composer-in–
Residence at Festival 500 in Newfoundland, and will give workshops at the World Choral
Symposium in Patagonia and the national convention of the American Choral Directors’
Association.
He has two critically acclaimed recordings on Signum: The Making of the Drum with the
BBC Singers and Making Waves with the women’s choir The Sirens and his music has
been recorded by many other choirs. He wrote the title track for the newly-released
King’s Singers album, Swimming over London, and his piece Irish Blessing featured on the
multi-platinum debut album of The Priests.

Tom Cunningham – Competition Judge

Tom Cunningham has conducted amateur and professional choirs and orchestras in
repertoire ranging from Monteverdi to premières of contemporary music, including
radio and television broadcasts and several CDs. His compositions and arrangements,
mainly published by Hinshaw Music in the USA and Roberton Publications in the
UK, have been performed by the National Youth Choir of Scotland Boys’ Choir, RSNO
Junior Chorus, Laudibus, Cappella Nova and many others. He has recently completed
three commissions for the National Youth Choir of Scotland and his settings for mixed
choir of three sets of poems by Alexander McCall Smith were premiered by Cappella
Nova. His opera The Okavango Macbeth, to a libretto by Alexander McCall Smith, was
premiered in Botswana in October 2009 and subsequently performed in Edinburgh
and Cambridge. A CD (Scotland at Night) including his compositions performed by
Laudibus under Mike Brewer is available on Delphian Records.

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 James Macmillan CBE – Competition Judge
James MacMillan is one of today’s most successful living composers, who first became
internationally recognised after the extraordinary success of The Confession of Isobel
Gowdie at the BBC Proms in 1990. His prolific output has since been performed and
broadcast around the world.
The 2010/11 season presents several MacMillan world premières, including his Piano
Concerto No 3, Mysteries of Light for the Minnesota Orchestra with Jean-Yves Thibaudet
and Osmo Vänskä, a trumpet concertino Seraph for Alison Balsom and the Scottish
Ensemble at the Wigmore Hall, a chamber opera Clemency with Britten Sinfonia at the
Royal Opera House, and the US première of his Violin Concerto with Vadim Repin and
the Philadelphia Orchestra/Dutoit at Carnegie Hall and in Philadelphia.
As a conductor, James MacMillan has worked with the Baltimore Symphony
Orchestra, Toronto Symphony, Los Angeles Philharmonic, Melbourne Symphony,
Swedish Chamber Orchestra and, last season, the Danish National Radio Symphony
Orchestra in his St John Passion, a work which he will conduct this season with the
Brussels Philharmonic and Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestras. In the 2010/11
season, James MacMillan begins his term as Principal Guest Conductor of the
Netherlands Radio Kamer Filharmonie.

Stephen Jardine – Host

Stephen Jardine is one of the best known faces on TV in Scotland.
After starting his career in local radio, Stephen joined stv as an on-screen reporter.
When the breakfast TV station GMTV was launched, he became the station’s Scotland
Correspondent and then Europe Correspondent, based in Paris. He also worked in
London as a Correspondent and presented the Newshour section of the programme.
In 2000, Stephen returned to stv to present a wide range of programmes including a
daytime talk show, a motoring programme, a weekly politics programme, numerous
Hogmanay shows and various documentaries including The Talent and Rich Gifted
and Scots. He has also presented the flagship news show Scotland Today and the daily
magazine programme, the five thirty show.
He currently presents stv’s live daily teatime entertainment and features show The
Hour. In addition, he writes regularly for the Evening News, The Scotsman and the
Sunday Mail and is involved in corporate work with a range of high profile Scottish
companies.
The winner of a Royal Television Society award for his work, The Scotsman newspaper
called him “the most distinguished TV journalist working outside London”.

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Christopher Nairne – Baritone
Born in Fife, Christopher is in his third undergraduate year studying singing with
Stephen Robertson at the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama (RSAMD).
Recent engagements include: Mozart’s Don Giovanni with the RSAMD; Nick Shadow
in The Rakes Progress and Lesbo in Agrippina with the Opera School; a collaboration
with Ivan Volkov and the RSAMD Chorus in Ravel’s Daphnis et Chloé (Glasgow City
Halls). At the RSAMD Christopher was runner-up in the Jean Highgate Competition. In
the summer, Christopher sang the role of Schaunard in Puccini’s La Bohème with the
newly founded professional company, Opera Bohemia. Future engagements include
the role of Marcod in Gianni Schicchi, and the soloist in the Fauré Requiem conducted
by Andrew Nunn.
Christopher was a member of the National Youth Choir of Scotland from 2003 until
2007, where performances included the MTV Europe Music Awards, BBC Scottish
Proms in the Park and the BBC Proms at the Royal Albert Hall.
This is Christopher’s fourth time singing for Waverley Care, a cause he has great
admiration for.

Jenny Sumerling – Competition Judge and Musical Director of Cadenza

Jenny Sumerling is a graduate of the Universities of Cambridge and London, where
she studied under John Rutter, Robin Holloway, Hugh Wood and Philip Ledger. While
still a student, she founded The Arcadians – a small, mixed-voice choir which toured
throughout the UK. Since then she has worked extensively as an accompanist and
conductor to soloists and choral groups and regularly adjudicates at music festivals.
Jenny has been the Principal Teacher for Music and Performing Arts at Portobello
High School since 2004. As director of the Senior School Choir, she worked with the
composer Rory Boyle and the Scottish Chamber Orchestra on the world première of
The Fires of Bride, as well as preparing singers from Edinburgh schools to work with
the Swingle Singers. She is an examiner and moderator for the Scottish Qualifications
Authority and will take up the post of Senior Examiner for Music (Higher) in 2011.
In 1996 Jenny became Musical Director of the Hadley Court Singers in East Lothian.
Her work with them included commissioning the Scottish composer, Ken Johnston,
to write Song for St Cecilia, a work for double choir and organ. She became Musical
Director of Cadenza in 2000.

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 Morley Whitehead – Accompanist
Morley Whitehead received his musical education at the Royal College of Music,
London, where his teachers included Richard Popplewell (organ) and the late Herbert
Howells (harmony & counterpoint). During his time in London, he was also winner
of numerous prizes at both Associateship and Fellowship diploma examinations of
the Royal College of Organists and was awarded the Silver Medal of the Worshipful
Company of Musicians.
Morley moved to Edinburgh in 1979 on being appointed Assistant Organist at St
Giles’ Cathedral, a post he held for over 10 years, and where, as well as playing for the
normal round of services, and for numerous broadcasts and recordings, he took part
in many special state occasions – such as the services for the Installation of Knights of
the Thistle, in the presence of Her Majesty the Queen.
Since 1991, he has been Organist & Choirmaster at (what is now) Morningside Parish
Church.
As well as his ongoing work as music specialist at Edinburgh University’s Reid Music
Library, Morley is regular accompanist to a number of the city’s musical institutions,
amongst them Edinburgh Royal Choral Union (since 1980) and Edinburgh Grand
Opera (since 1989) and he is increasingly busy as a freelance player, particularly an
accompanist. He is delighted to be working once again with Waverley Care.

Simon Woods – Competition Judge

Simon Woods joined the Royal Scottish National Orchestra as Chief Executive in
August 2005, prior to which he was President and CEO of the New Jersey Symphony
Orchestra. During his time in the USA he was an active participant in the American
Symphony Orchestra League’s professional development programs, leading frequent
seminars on concert programming and artistic administration.
In nine years as a record producer at EMI Classics (1988-1997), Simon worked in the
recording studio with many of the world’s foremost classical artists. Prior to joining
EMI, he held posts with the London Philharmonic Orchestra, and with Classical Music
Magazine.
Trained in musicology, conducting and composition, Simon is an MA graduate of
Cambridge University, and a post-graduate diploma holder from the Guildhall School
of Music and Drama in London. He is a member of the Board of Directors of the
Association of British Orchestras.

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Cadenza
Founded in 1992, Cadenza is now considered to be one of Scotland’s finest and
most exciting amateur mixed voice choirs, with members from a wide area of central
Scotland. The choir has performed throughout Scotland and beyond, with music
covering all periods and most styles. Concerts for a wide range of charities from both
the UK and overseas are a regular part of the annual programme and have raised
many thousands of pounds over the years.
Having first hit the headlines in the late 1990s after winning the Scotland & North
of England title in Choir of the Year twice in succession, Cadenza began to receive
invitations to perform on BBC radio and at prominent events, most recently
headlining Historic Scotland’s Christmas Concert in Stirling Castle, Raymond Gubbay’s
Carols by Candlelight, and of course tonight’s Sing a New Song final. The choir is
looking forward to performing all of tonight’s finalists again on 11th December.
Jenny Sumerling became Musical Director in September 2000, and under her
direction the choir has continued to go from strength to strength, attracting capacity
audiences and critical acclaim at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival with performances of
major works from Bach to Maxwell Davies. She also directed Voices of Joy, the choir’s
second, and well received, CD.
Renowned singer and conductor, Ben Parry, has been Cadenza’s patron since 2003,
and has since played an active role, including Guest Conductor at the 2007 Edinburgh
Fringe Festival.

List of Cadenza Members:

Soprano
Mhairi Anderson Helen Dingwall Jane Green Katie Smith
Carol Binnie Valerie Elcock Helen Heatlie Kirsten Waller
Catherine Briscoe Morna Fleming April Parkins Rebecca Wober
Erin Christenson Maureen Fowler Maxine Rostron
Sheila Dalgleish Susan Gardner Lynne Samuel

Alto
Christine Ayton Lisa Gallacher Cherry Kelsey Maureen Rooney
Barbara Badger Susanne Goetzold Vivienne McCormack Libby Torrie
Fiona Bisset Lynda Hepburn Clare McLay Amanda Wright
Karen Docwra Chris Hewitt Liz Read

Tenor
Dan Docwra Robin Mather John Sneddon Neil Whyte
Michael Green Ian Phillips Steven Torrie

Bass
Andrew Bastow David Hale Andrew Lyons Bobby Thomson
Robert Davison Peter Hawkins John Robertson Phil Woodhead

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List of singers [As of 11.11.2010]
Mandy Abbott Alasdair Charleson Elizabeth Glass Fiona Lynn
Carol Adams Gina Charleson Beryl Goodall Claire MacGregor
Fiona Adams Phil Chetwynd Karein Gordon Jan MacGregor
Margaret Aird Diane Chisholm David Gould Lucy MacGregor
Lucy Aitchison Ruth Christie Sarah Green Elma MacIntyre
Patricia Aitchison Moira Coates Janet Grimwade Ranald MacKechnie
Mhairi Allen Alistair Cockburn Felicity Haire Marion MacKellar
Molly Anderson Mary Collier Anne Hamilton Maggie Mackenchie
Edith Armit Margery Collin Rachel Hammerton Catherine Mackenzie
Wendy Armstrong Susan Collin June Henderson Rosalind MacKintosh
Liz Arnott Marion Covin Angela Hewitt Lin MacLean
Isla Auld Anne F Cowan Lex Hope Patricia MacNair
Evelyn Bain Sandra Crawford Susanne Hope Monica Malarkey
Mary Bainbridge Mary Crichton Gordon Horne Jan Mann
Kirsty Ball Sue Crofton Jane Horne Kirsten Mann
Catherine Banks Alison Cunningham Milly Hurst Judy Manson
Christine Barraclough Alison Cunningham Ruth Hutchison Cath Marshall
David Barraclough Jane Cunningham Gail Hyland Sandra McAllister
Jill Beattie Margaret Darling Helen Hyland Sheila McBryde
Jean Bechhofer Jean Davis Shirley Illman Jeanie McCaig
David Bennet Margaret Dick Helen Jamieson Kathleen McCallum
Margaret Bennet Margaret Dineley Sheila Jardine Sarah McConachie
Fiona E Beveridge Helen Drummond Margaret Jibb Ann McDermott
Kathleen Birchall Sonia Duffy Christine Johnston Fiona McDermott
Ian Black Christine Duncan F.H. Johnston Patricia McDonald
S. R. Black Jean Duncan Judy Johnston Anne McEwen
Marion Blain Liz Duncan Bronwen Jones Johanna McGavigan
Elizabeth Blair Fiona Dunlop Margaret Jones M McIntyre
Aileen Borthwick Margaret Dunning Mary Kay Veronica McIvor
June Bouaoun Beth Elliott Ann Kearns Elma McKinney
Rowena Bowman Bea Ferguson Beth Kennaway Marion McRae
Philip Bradfield Patricia Field Margaret Kennedy Frances Menter
Davina Briggs Ann Firth Mary Kidd Sally Metcalf
Pat Brockie Phoebe Fisher Rosemary King Mary Milarky
Mary Brough Rosemary Flannigan Anne Kirkpatrick Sheila Miller
Barbara Brown Joan Forrest Jean Kirkpatrick Christine Milne
David Brown Susan Forrest Norma Knowles Philip Milne
Rosemary Brown Gordon Fraser Isobel Kynoch Alison Moffat
Trish Burnet Laraine Freeman Elizabeth Laing Kathleen Moir
Jean Buttler-Madden Gill French Merilyn Laing Richard Moore
Catherine Cameron Maggie Frew Alison Langford May Mordaunt
John Cameron Agnes-Ann Froude Mary Leishman David Morgan
Margaret Cameron Brigitte Fuge Alison Little Anne Moyes
Liz Campbell Ian Fuge Margaret Llewelyn Alison Murison
Eileen M Cant Isobel Fyfe Janet Lodge John Murison
Sheena Cant Cathie Galbraith John Loudon Joyce Murray
Norah Carlin Catriona Gibson Rosemary Loudon David Nelson
Valerie Carson Mary Gibson Patricia Lovelock Nan Newall
Elaine Cartwright A Girvan Elizabeth Lucas Elizabeth Nobbs

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 Angela Over Astrid Ritchie Robin Strain Rosemary West
Eleanor Palmer Kathryn Robertson Anne Sturrock Lucy Westmore
Rachel Palmer Malcolm Robertson Margaret Swann Judith Weston
James Park Margaret Robertson D Taylor Pat Whike
Mary Park B Rombaut Mrs D Taylor Robin Whike
Emily Parsons Trucco Charlotte Rose Jennifer Thomson Jennifer Whitehouse
Joyce Patrick Vera Ross Peter Thornton Elizabeth Whitelaw
Cecilia Patterson Mairi Russell Thelma Thornton Margory Whiteside
Ann Polson Christine Scott Sylvia Tillmann Helen Whyte
Clare Priest Elizabeth Scott M C Towler Vivienne Willett
Eric Priest Helen Scott Marjorie Towler A T Wilson
Jill Pritchard Joan S Scott Izzie Tween Brenda Wilson
Margaret Pritchard Ursula Scrivener Barbara Tyldesley Bridget Wilson
Ian Pryde Cynthia Sewell Sheila Uren Catherine Wilson
Julie Purves Iona Simpson Helen Walker Colin Wilson
Pat Quinn Jane Smart Isobel Walker Maggie Wood
Elizabeth Raitt Charlotte Smith Marion Walker Sally Wrake
Christine Ramage Muriel Stenhouse Jann Wallace Gwynneth Wright
Janet Rathband Cindy Stevens Morag Ward Alistair Wynne
Evelyn Reekie Ann Stevenson Alison Wardlaw Judith Wynne
Ellen Reid Hazel Stewart Judy Waring Ruth Yates
Marjory Richardson Maureen Stewart Pauline Watson Helen Yewdall
Norman Richardson Robert Stewart Ruth Watt

A big thank you from Waverley Care to:

Bob Chilcott; Jeremy Cull; Tom Cunningham; Andrew Morley; Caledonian Hilton Hotel; Sir Tom & Lady Farmer; Chrisie Borg; Helen
Fry; Tim Griffiths; Jennie Higgs; Josephine Hay; Alessandro Insalaco; Stephen Jardine; Stiofán McFadden; James MacMillan CBE;
Donald McKenzie; Omni Music; Oxford University Press; Michelle Rogers; Robin Stewart; St Cuthbert’s Church; St Peter’s Episcopal
Church; Jenny Sumerling; Paul Sumerling; Simon Woods.

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 Over the past 21 years, Waverley Care has prided itself on being responsive to the changing needs
of people in Scotland who are living with HIV and Hepatitis C. From offering palliative care in the
early days of the AIDS epidemic, to supporting people to live positively with a long-term chronic
condition, we have worked tirelessly to ensure our services remain relevant and responsive to need.
One aspect of our work which hasn’t changed has been the support which people need to cope with
the stigma of HIV and Hepatitis C. The vast majority of our service users are unable to talk openly about
their condition and do not even disclose this information to their closest friends. Our work here is to help
rebuild a sense of self-worth, which is so often shattered by carrying a secret like this.
To illustrate this, we reproduce here an interview with Steven, one of our young service users, first
published in our newsletter, Positive Interest.

When Annie Lennox met Steven

Annie Lennox, UK Ambassador of Nelson
Mandela’s AIDS charity, 46664, unveiled the
commemorate stone outside the Edinburgh City
Chambers. It incorporates the words “It’s in our
hands” along with handprints of Annie Lennox
herself and of Steven, one of our young service
users. We caught up with Steven after the event:
So how did you feel when you were asked to
take part in this? I was pleased to be asked. I never
thought I’d meet someone like Annie Lennox. I
was quite excited but nervous too.
What was it like doing the handprint? We went The 46664 stone outside
to the stonemason and I put my hands in a big the City Chambers in
rectangle of clay. I had to press really hard to get Edinburgh; Steven’s hand
an imprint of my hands. I had no idea what it prints on the stone; Annie
would look like but thought it was good. It looks Lennox speaking at the
amazing that it’s picked out in gold. unveiling ceremony.

What was it like meeting Annie Lennox? She

came up to a room to meet my mum and me
and some others. She was different from how
I imagined. She was very normal and down to
earth. She talked with us about HIV in Britain
and in Africa. She was shocked to hear about the
stigma of HIV in Scotland.
So were you out in the courtyard to see the
unveiling? No, we watched it from an upstairs
window. We didn’t know how many people would
be there and if it would be obvious who I was.
Have you told any of your friends at school
about meeting her? No. My friends don’t know
I’m HIV positive.
How does that feel? It’s a shame to have my 15
minutes of fame and not to be able to talk about
it but I’m used to keeping secrets. I’m going on
a residential weekend with Waverley Care’s Poz
Youth group soon. I’ll tell them about it. I can be
myself with them. I’ll show them the photograph
that I’ve got of me with Annie Lennox.
You can see Steven’s handprints in the 46664 stone
at the entrance to the City Chambers in Edinburgh.
Waverley Care’s work with HIV positive young
people is kindly funded by BBC Children in Need.

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