CREDITON Music Endowment Fund Awards Presentation ceremony took place at Crediton Parish Church on Sunday, July 16.

The Crediton Music Endowment Fund is a charity set up in 2009 to provide a fund to encourage and help facilitate a high standard of music at Holy Cross Church.

The Fund supports the PCC with annual contributions to the stipends of the Director of Music, the Assistant Organist and an organ scholar.

It is also delighted each year when young choristers from the Church apply for grants for musical instrument and singing lessons.

Its income comes from individual donations, a regular and much appreciated donation from the Friends of Holy Cross Church, generous legacies and also from the musical events which the trustees organise for the enjoyment of Crediton residents throughout the year.

This year’s grant recipients were: Zoe Hooper – Piano, Joshua Lobb – Clarinet, Finnlay Carr - Saxaphone, Eva Hooper – Piano, Esther Lobb – Fife and Effiah Carr – Fife.

The grants were presented by Robin Thomas, chairman.

He congratulated all of the grant recipients and thanked everyone who supported the Fund.

Autumn concerts include:

Saturday, September 23 at 7.30pm - Anne Wilkins, an accomplished Soprano from Wales, who has been blind from birth and who appeared recently on Michael MacIntyre's "Big Show".

Anne is a friend of Penny Pearkes, who is both a trustee of the Music Fund and the Fund’s secretary.

Saturday, November 18 at 3pm - Nigel and Tina Guthrie Ensemble, followed by tea and cakes in the Boniface Centre.