Singing group for children Singing Angels set to return to Stourbridge church 10 years after it closed

A Stourbridge rector’s daughter is bringing back her mother’s singing group 10 years later.

Amelia Cox is bringing back the ‘Singing Angels’ for children in Pedmore after her mother Claire, Rector of Wollescote and Pedmore, had to discontinue the group when she joined the priesthood.

Both Amelia, who is a trainee teacher, and Claire became involved in the church when Claire’s son Albert was born critically ill in 2011. He is attended to by a team of consultants at Birmingham Children’s hospital.

Claire said: “It’s quite ironic that this new group is launching as Singing Angels celebrates its 10th anniversary as this anniversary is represented by tin, symbolising durability and flexibility, or aluminium which symbolises resilience.”

“We’ve certainly had to be resilient as a family since Albert was born,” Claire continued. “Those painful moments in my life when our world was upside down, I felt at peace in the presence of God when singing.”

The group is for school-age children and covers songs from West End musicals, movies, pop music and hymns.

The Singing Angels will reconvene at St Peter’s Centre on November 15 at 4pm. For more information contact Amelia at [email protected].