ALCESTER Male Voice Choir is to be sponsored by local coach company Johnsons Coaches for the fourth year running.

The company, which is based in Henley in Arden, will be taking the 80-strong choir to various venues during the next year as well as providing funding to support various enterprises including promotional banners, stage safety rails and printing the annual concert booking forms.

John Johnson, director of Johnsons Coach & Bus, said: "As a high profile coach & bus operator we have to make sure that any organisation we support has similar values to ourselves and that they, like us, always strive to be the very best that they can be.

"With The Alcester Male Voice this is definitely the case. Their work rate is phenomenal and they deliver quality performances time after time.

"You only have to look at some of the venues they perform at to appreciate the calibre of the choir we are supporting.

"There is also great synergy between Johnsons customers and the choir and its audiences which works well for both organisations."

Judith Land, choir founder and director of music, said: "We are once again most grateful to Johnsons for their help and invaluable support and we are of course delighted to be associated with a company that is so well respected within the area and by the wider coach & bus industry.

"Over the last three years it has been a pleasure working with them and we look forward to another successful year working together"