Village Concerts was set up early in 2001 to bring quality live music to smaller village communities and has, since formation, successfully promoted more than 270 concerts in association with The Orchestra of the Thames Gateway, The Thames Gateway Quartet and other groups.

Our concerts are designed to be both entertaining, informative and not over-long. Typically, each concert will feature well-loved melodies from TV, Cinema, West End / Broadway Shows together with Classical music. Often, the concerts will feature a guest instrumentalist / vocalist in adition to the string quartet. Concerts have been well received with regular return visits to several key venues.

Current initiatives include the '1st River Darent Music Festival' and develoing our enjoyable connection with Romney Marsh, with our 'Music on the Marsh' series.

The Concerts seek to entertain but to also educate, being illustrated with commentary both on the music and offering a window on "the life of the professional musician in the 21st Century".

Fostering a true community spirit, the Village Concert series has already casually raised around £40,000 for a selection of charities and local good-causes, both through "interval raffles" and end of concert retiring collections. Beneficiaries have included Church restoration funds, animal welfare, hospices (Demelza Capital Fund, Eltham, The Ellenor, Greenwich & Bexley, Harris Hospice), The RAF Benevolent Fund, HCPT The Pilgrimage Trust, British Heart Foundation, FOAL Farm, Bexley Young Musicians, Age Concern, Help for Heroes, Prostrate Cancer Charity, and the Sumatra (Indonesia) earthquake appeal, St. Catherine's Hospice, Nordoff-Robbins Music Therapy, I-Care (stroke charity), and many more

Village Concerts, a non-profit organisation, is actively engaging the attention of arts and funding organisations, both locally and nationally, to underpin the development and expansion of The Village Concerts Series.