London Gatwick welcomes back Rock Choir

Gatwick was full of Christmas spirit today when our team welcomed back Rock Choir for a wonderful sing song in our  check-in area. Adding to the fun was a giant Christmas snow globe helping our customers start their seasonal getaways with some extra special snaps.

The event is the brainchild of one of the singers Jayne Roscoe, who also works in our occupational health team. She spends her days looking after the physical, financial and mental health of our people. That’s incredibly important stuff. At weekends she joins 200 friends to belt out some classic tunes. It’s called Rock Choir, it’s show business and it’s truly uplifting. For their special appearance at Gatwick this morning they mixed a few popular Christmas standards to their repertoire. It was a lot of fun and the perfect start to the holidays for our customers.

Rock Choirs exist all over the UK for people to come together and enjoy a good sing song, often at events or big celebrations. If the effect is remarkable for the audience, it has fantastic benefits for the singers. “It’s therapeutic, social and fun, and learning the words is good for the brain,” says Jayne, who is known to practice singing in her car on the way to work. The Rock Choir performing at London Gatwick this morning is the combined Horsham, Reigate and Haslemere choirs. As well as entertaining our customers the choir will be collecting money for our charity partnership WE.org

Watching Jayne and the Rock Choir for this special performance is our customer operations supervisor Chris Clayton. “We love making our customers’ journeys special,” he said. “And today, having the Rock Choir at Gatwick, has been wonderful. Our customers loved it and it got their holidays off to the best possible start.”

Jayne first heard about WE.org from a friend’s daughter who went on an early Virgin Atlantic scholarship trip. “I remember thinking this was an amazing thing that Virgin Atlantic did for young people,” she said. “Then when I joined the airline I got to see the impact the charity has from the other side and thought his would be a great thing to get behind.”

Rock Choir welcomes people of all ages and abilities. Find out more on their website.

A massive thank you to everyone from Rock Choir who gave their time, our people who came in on their days off to rattle the tins and to our incredibly generous and fun customers.