Become a Life Member, Patron, or Friend

Please introduce your friends to Opera South — they will be most welcome to attend our main opera, concerts, and presentations.

If you or any of your friends would like to join the Opera South chorus, please let us know. We are also always looking for volunteers to help at Opera South and if you would like to become involved we would be very pleased to hear from you.

Categories & Benefits

All Patrons and Friends: Early notification and publicity about Opera South activities which include our main annual opera, concerts with young professional soloists, talks, and presentations, all of which are held in a variety of attractive venues. A teaching performance for schools is included in our main programme. Our high standard of concert events invariably include a reception and dinner.

You may be named in publications and programmes unless you ask to remain anonymous.

Patrons: Priority bookings and free programmes.

Life Patrons: Priority bookings, free programmes and hospitality at our main opera. Life Patrons who make their payments over 4 years will be known as Diamond Patrons until their 4th payment has been made.

Gold Patrons: Priority bookings, free programme and Dining Voucher for one evening at Georgian House Hotel, Haslemere, during Opera South main opera week.

Friends: Free programme for main opera. (The normal price for our main opera programme is £5)

Donations may be single or joint (covering 2 people within one household) Payment is encouraged by annual standing order which has mutual benefits – lower price for you and lower administration costs for us.

Payment by gift aid is recommended. Opera South is able to reclaim tax on contributions made by UK tax payers so helping our charity objectives. There are tax benefits if you are a high rate tax payer.



  SINGLE JOINT
Standing orderCash or chequeStanding orderCash or cheque
Patron £ 70 £ 80£ 100 £ 125_
Life Patron
4 years*
Single payment
£ 250
N/A
N/A
£ 800
£ 400
N/A
N/A
£ 1,200
Gold Patron £ 150 £ 170£ 250 £ 275_
Friend £ 12 £ 15£ 20 £ 25_


Opera South also encourages corporate support and sponsorship ; see Business

 

Data Protection Act: When you decide to join as a Friend or Patron of Opera South your name, address and payment details will be kept on computerized records which will be used only for administrative purposes. Details will not be passed to any other organization.

How to apply to be a Patron or Friend of Opera South

  1. Click on this link to the Application Form PDF.
  2. Download & print (A4) the PDF* file (111KB). (To do this, in Microsoft Windows systems right-click and select Save Link As ; other systems have similar methods.)
  3. Complete the form, including payment method.
  4. Send the form in to the address on the form.

The Application Form is a standard PDF (Portable Document Format) file. About PDF.