Please direct any enquiries to: info@michaelvarahfund.org

Carols by Candlelight 2025

The Church of St Stephen Walbrook, City of London EC4N 8BN
Wednesday 3rd December 2025 at 7.30pm

With the magical Vasari Singers conducted by Jeremy Backhouse, and our bravura Host, Sir Richard Stilgoe.

We are delighted that the MVMF Carols by Candleight is back at St Stephen Walbrook this December. The Great Restoration of the church – May 2024 to July 2025 – has returned Sir Christopher Wren’s sublime interior to immaculate condition and been shortlisted by the Georgian Group for its 2025 Conservation Awards.

The Vasari Singers and our host Richard Stilgoe are overjoyed at the prospect of performing once again, amidst the twinking tealights, in this exquisite 353-year-old building that Sir John Summerson proclaimed ‘The pride of English architecture’.

Thank you for your support: we invite you to join the MVMF, to marvel at the soaring Vasari voices and be moved by stories of our charity’s life-changing work. As many guests tell us: “This is where Christmas starts for me.”

Please book your seats now! £35 pew seat or £25 bench seat.

Email info@michaelvarahfund.org or call 07791 266552
or book and pay through Eventbrite: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-michael-varah-memorial-fund-carols-by-candlelight-2025-tickets-1652359103559

MVMF charity Christmas cards by 'Our Time' artists

Exclusive MVMF charity Christmas cards featuring original artworks by the ‘Our Time’ women artists within HMP Send and an alumna. The programme is delivered by Watts Gallery Trust and funded by the Michael Varah Memorial Fund.

£4.00 for a pack of 5 cards (18 x 12.5 cms) including envelopes. Please specify your choice of design.

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‘Our Time’ 2026 Calendar

2026 Calendar featuring original artworks by the ‘Our Time’ women artists within HMP Send (and alumnae) as part of their Social Enterprise. The programme is delivered by Watts Gallery Trust and funded by the Michael Varah Memorial Fund. 

£8.00 per copy

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‘Our Time’ Notecards

Exclusive Notecards featuring original paintings by the ‘Our Time’ women artists within HMP Send (and alumnae) as part of their Social Enterprise. The programme is delivered by Watts Gallery Trust and funded by the Michael Varah Memorial Fund.

£5.00 for a pack of 5 cards (148 mm square) including envelopes

Purchase instructions

Buy Art Postcards by ‘Our Time’ artists

Exclusive postcards featuring original artworks by the ‘Our Time’ women artists (and alumnae) within HMP Send as part of their Social Enterprise. The programme is delivered by Watts Gallery Trust and funded by the Michael Varah Memorial Fund.

60p each or buy your choice of 10 cards for £5.00

Please specify your choice of design

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O Holy Night – a joint film production by Vasari Singers and the MVMF

When our Carols by Candlelight concert couldn’t take place in 2020 because of Covid, we joined with the Vasari Singers to make this film. It moved so many people that our Christmas appeal quickly raised over £6,500.

The film still captures so much of what we seek to do as a charity. So if you want to see it again – or missed it before, here it is:

And Sir Richard Stilgoe recorded his ‘Lockdown Christmas Poem’ for us to share.Click here for his take on those Covid festivities.

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