Grace Hoodless from Douglas Choral Union speaks to Richard Butt after they won the Nurturing our Arts, Culture and Heritage award at the 2023 Media Isle of Man Awards for Excellence
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00:00 Congratulations, you're Grace Hoodless and you're from the Douglas Call Union and you won the
00:04 Isle of Man Post Office Nurturing Our Arts, Culture and Heritage Award. Tell us a bit about the Douglas
00:11 Call Union first. Yes, so we're a theatre society and charity on the Isle of Man and we've been
00:17 going for 128 years now. So we do yearly shows on the island at the Gator Theatre but we also run
00:26 lots of our charity endeavours as well. So we have some, we have bursary recipients, we pay for
00:32 students to go away to go to the UK to pursue their dreams of being in theatre but we also run
00:39 choirs for the community who probably wouldn't necessarily want to do the shows at the theatre
00:47 but also want to be part of the music and culture on the island. So we have, so we just recently
00:55 celebrated our 125th year and so we did a lot of events and such so we're just trying to kind of
01:02 carry on that now and basically look after our members and retain them because they're our
01:07 future basically. And how many members do you have? We have over 100 members starting from probably
01:13 seven years old up until yeah 90s probably. What does winning mean to you? So much, we've obviously
01:22 been going for so long now that we've had so many past committee members and this is kind of them,
01:28 for them because obviously they've done a lot for the society and we just want to carry that on now
01:33 as current committee members. Thank you very much. Congratulations.
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