About the choir
This section introduces you to some key people and legal information.
People:
- "Committee" introduces key members of the Executive Committee.
- "Music Team" introduces the musicians who lead us.
Legal:
- "Accounts" are provided from the past 6 years.
- "Privacy" lists the Choir's GDPR Privacy Policy.
CHOIR COMMITTEE
Chairman: Richard Ironmonger
Richard joined the choir around March 2017. He is a career police officer having joined Hertfordshire Police as a cadet in 1966.
After 4 years as a Police Constable he left to join the Bermuda Police where he remained for 7 years before returning to join Hampshire Police in 1980. On promotion to Sergeant he spent 2 years at the District Police Training Centre at Ashford in Kent as a Police Instructor. He has served at various locations in Hampshire including Control Rooms until he retired from Havant in 2006 at the rank of Inspector. He then took a second job as Deputy Head of Security for the University of Southampton for a further 7 years before final retirement. More…
His love of music started at school, being a member of 3 school choirs and playing Bassoon and Tuba for the school orchestra. Sadly, on leaving school, none of these attributes were followed up until a chance meeting with Ian Readhead (Deputy Chief Constable) and Colin Swettenham (previous Chairman of HPMVC) at a police dinner where he was 'persuaded' to join the choir.
Married to Maureen, he has two adult married sons and lives in Bishop’s Waltham.
Vice Chairman: Nigel Cooper
I joined the choir in 2016 when I was persuaded by the then M.D. (Terri Freeman) to come along and give it a go! She heard me singing with a Ukulele group which I was a member of and collared me after the session. I have always enjoyed singing and was brought up in Wales where I attended a Welsh Baptist Chapel. We only had four tenors in the congregation which encouraged us to "sing out". I enjoy playing the guitar and singing alongside and also still play occasionally with my Ukulele group. I love dogs and keep myself fit by walking our Saluki Greyhound (Coco) and playing a lot of Golf! I am married to a lovely Welsh girl called Nerris who sadly does not share my enthusiasm for singing.
Secretary: Roger Rixon
Treasurer:
Colin Thorpe
Librarian:
Jim Travers
Social Secretary:
Ed Kopinski
MUSIC TEAM
Acting Musical Director & Accompanist:
Sian Bibby‑Hsia
Accompanist:
Nigel Smith
CHOIR PRIVACY POLICY AND
THE GENERAL DATA PROTECTION REGULATION
- This information relates to the new General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) which came into effect on 25 May 2018, and which choristers may have seen referred to in the media generally or in communications from other organisations.
- If you are content with the information that we hold, how we process it, how we currently contact you etc, then you do not need to do anything. This is because, unlike other organisations who may have been in contact with you in regard to GDPR matters, HPMVC is a membership organisation and so the choir does not need you to grant consent for your information to be used, and choristers do not need to reply or complete any forms for this process to continue.
- In any other instances, for example if you are not a choir member but are on our mailing list, then your first action should be to update your preferences by selecting the unsubscribe link in any electronic communication you receive.
- The purpose of GDPR is to provide a set of standard data protection laws across the EU, making it easier for everyone to understand how their data is being used and giving individuals greater control over its use.
- HPMVC's legal basis for processing this data is the choir's legitimate interest as a membership organisation.
- The choir uses the data for the administration of members' membership, the communication of information and the choir's events. We only share members' contact details with Hampshire Constabulary. We do not share supporters' details with anybody.
- The person responsible for the data held by HPMVC is the choir's Technical and Data Officer for the time being.
- The Technical and Data Officer is responsible for reporting to the Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) if there is any unauthorised access to the database, or if any data is lost.