Support our Mission
DUCS constantly relies on the support of everyone — its audience, its members, its alumni, its management, and more. By supporting DUCS, you are supporting our mission: to facilitate the very best of student music-making for everyone.
Our Choral Society offers the opportunity to over 100 singers to be a part of the biggest and best projects in Durham, giving singers the opportunity to sing in Durham Cathedral, to learn from professional conductors and singers, and to build a large network of both working and personal relationships, forming an unparalleled community.
We also work as a society to become more accessible to as many students in the University as possible. With the foundation of our Durham University Voices (DUVs) programme, singers that are new to choral music are invited to be a part of this choir to build the skills to become a part of DUCS, should they choose to. Our fundamental goal is to spread a love for singing in a group to as many students as possible, and to have the best time doing it.
There are a number of ways you can support this — as an audience member, by coming to our concerts and sharing the news about upcoming ones with friends and family. As a company, by getting in touch with us about sponsorship opportunities, or as a donor, by making a one-time or recurring donation to our society.
Support our concerts
We have a host of different concerts throughout our seasons, and we hugely appreciate our audience as the beating heart of what we do. Without you, we wouldn’t get to present such an amazing experience to the community, and so it is vital that we keep our audiences healthy.
You can find out more about this 2025-26 season below.
Sponsor us
As a leading society within Durham University, we receive thousands of impressions on Publicity materials, concert adverts and more every year.
By choosing to sponsor us, you can access multiple audiences from a variety of backgrounds in our local area.
If you are a local business, we’d love to hear from you.
Donate
Financially, DUCS’ operating costs are enormous, including costs of hiring ambitious venues, appointing a professional conductor and working with professional musicians. We are constantly relying on the support of generous donors to keep generating the funds for these invaluable student experiences.
You can make a donation as a one-off, of any value, or set-up a standing donation to our society for as long or as short as you would like. Whatever you can give, we are hugely thankful.
Please Note
At this stage, with the new donation system being in its early stages, we do not yet have a registered channel “Durham University Choral Society” set up on the system. Therefore, please direct donations to “Performing Arts” but make a note in the comments box that you’d like for it to be redirected to us.
If you have any further issues, please contact ourselves or Dr Nicola Candlish, Senior Manager of Performing Arts, nicola.candlish@durham.ac.uk.