Paisley choir bring smiles to shoppers and raise cash for Ukraine

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A community choir brought smiles to the faces of supermarket shoppers – and raised hundreds of pounds for Ukraine.Rockus Community Choir performed outside Asda Linwood on Saturday afternoon.The Paisley choir were moved to do something to help raise money for the DEC appeal to help support people in the country.And they decided the best thing to do would be to sing for one hour and see how much money they managed to raise in their donation buckets.Don't miss the latest headlines from around Renfrewshire.

Sign up to our newsletters here.And Linda Craig from the choir said they were absolutely delighted to raise a fantastic £439.74.She said: “The Asda customers were extremely generous.

We were only there for one hour, imagine what we could have raised if we’d sang for longer?“It was so lovely putting a smile on people’s faces.

The weather was lovely and it was a great afternoon.”The choir, which was formed in 2011, sang a selection of their popular feel-good songs including Something Inside So Strong, Proud Mary and River Deep, Mountain High.All the money raised from Saturday’s event is being donated to the DEC Appeal for Ukraine and Linda said they’re already looking forward to doing something similar again.“We wanted to do something,” she said. “A lot of us are feeling the same, we’re sitting at home watching the TV and seeing everything that’s going on.“You feel redundant, we’re limited in what we can do.