The Royal College of Organists is delighted to announce Play the Organ Year 2025.

Play the Organ Year is designed to inspire a year-long effort by the whole organ-playing community, not just to increase the number of people learning to play the organ, but also the number enjoying live and recorded organ music.

We firmly believe that the best way to achieve both these objectives is to get as many people as possible not just hearing and seeing the instrument, but playing it!

We return to Canterbury, this time for a visit to St Peter's Methodist Church and St Dunstan's parish church, neither of which the Association has visited within the past 35 years, if ever. Tea and the AGM will be held at the latter, and it should be possible to wrap up proceedings in time for members or their guests to attend Cathedral evensong if they so wish.

More details to be added when available.

Edenbridge parish church deserves a visit all to itself, because, as with Hythe, it contains two organs played from the same console. But there are a Graveyard Trail and a Town Trail as added inducements.

2.00 pm. Departure from Tunbridge Wells! We should have a steam locomotive in one direction or the other.

After the return trip to Eridge, we shall visit the parish church of King Charles the Martyr and have tea there.

Arrangements for group travel on the railway will be announced in due course.

We can now confirm  a visit to the Royal Birmingham Conservatoire and both Cathedrals between the 10th and 13th March (N.B. amended dates) with  an invitation to visit Coventry Cathedral on the  return journey. Here is the provisional plan for our trip.

Monday 10th March A.M. Travel to Birmingham

Birmingham Town Hall - Organ recital by Thomas Trotter at 1.00p.m. Thomas has agreed to meet with us afterwards to discuss his long tenure as the City Organist.