Yarmouth’s Hippodrome to feature on Children in Need

The Hippodrome circus will feature on this year's BBC Children in Need programme (Image: Archant)

The Hippodrome will host Yarmouth's part in the Children's Choir, which will see over 1,000 schoolchildren across the country joining forces to sing The Climb, originally sung by Miley Cyrus.

Around 200 children will perform in the Yarmouth choir, which is made up of youngsters from Great Yarmouth High School, North Denes Junior School, Beccles Primary Academy, Reepham High School, St Nicholas Priory School and Benjamin Britten High School in Lowestoft.

The Yarmouth children will be led by choir mistress, Samantha Coe, a classically trained musician and soprano who runs the Wharf Academy Music School in Norwich.

Hippodrome owner Peter Jay said: 'We are absolutely delighted to have been picked by the BBC, it's a great honour for us and Great Yarmouth.'

This will be the fifth year that the Children's Choir has performed for BBC Children in Need and is highly regarded as one of the stand out moments of the show.

Local TV star David Whiteley will front the live show from the Hippodrome in a specially created studio high above the ring where he will link up with the main presenters Terry Wogan, Nick Grimshaw, Tess Daly and Fearne Cotton.

The Hippodrome has been raising money for Children in Need throughout its record breaking Halloween show and will present a cheque on the special Children in Need night.

Ten young musicians from the Acle St Edmund Youth Orchestra will also be playing and entertaining passers-by around Acle today to raise money for Children in Need.

The band will playing from 10-11am in Lloyds Bank, 11.40-1.30pm in Barclays Bank and 1.45-4pm in Budgens at the back by the coffee machine.

The orchestra's wheelbarrow will be outside where they are.