{"id":26512,"date":"2025-11-26T17:48:22","date_gmt":"2025-11-26T17:48:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.franchiselocal.co.uk\/news\/?p=26512"},"modified":"2025-11-26T17:48:22","modified_gmt":"2025-11-26T17:48:22","slug":"caregivers-form-choir-aiming-for-christmas-no-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.franchiselocal.co.uk\/news\/caregivers-form-choir-aiming-for-christmas-no-1\/","title":{"rendered":"Caregivers form choir aiming for Christmas No.1"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> 2<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minutes<\/span><\/span><p>Nine caregivers from franchise and independent care agencies across the UK have formed the Home Care\u2019s Got Talent Choir to create a new version of Robbie Williams\u2019 \u2018Angels\u2019 in a bid to become this year\u2019s Christmas No.1.<\/p>\n<p>The caregivers recorded their rendition of the 90s classic at the legendary Abbey Road Studios, joining the long line of music legends who have performed there over the years. The iconic location also serves as the backdrop for the single\u2019s music video which offers a behind-the-scenes look at the recording as well as videos of the caregivers with their clients.<\/p>\n<p>Several famous faces have also shared their talents for the project having joined the Home Care\u2019s Got Talent judging panel earlier this year. Musician Kuill from The Voice, Married at First Sight\u2019s Matt Jameson as well as Bucks Fizz star Jay Aston have contributed to the single.<\/p>\n<p>The caregivers travelled from as far away as Scotland and North Wales to take part, representing home care providers Caremark, Home Instead, Voyage Care, Visiting Angels, CCH Mochridhe, Vitality Home Health and Calon Lan Community Care.\u00a0With the support of the public and backing from other care companies like Bluebird Care, they believe they can surpass the original version\u2019s chart success from 1997 and go all the way to No.1.<\/p>\n<p>Alongside raising awareness of the incredible work caregivers do to support clients in the comfort of their own homes, the single has another positive purpose at its core. All profits raised by the single\u2019s downloads will be donated to the Care Workers\u2019 Charity. The charity is dedicated to supporting the social care workforce, those providing care and support to the million+ people drawing on social care. In particular, they provide crisis support, mental health initiatives and advocacy for fair treatment, pay and recognition.<\/p>\n<p>Dan Archer, UK CEO of in-home care company Visiting Angels and founder of Home Care\u2019s Got Talent said: \u201cThis wild idea came about following this year\u2019s Home Care\u2019s Got Talent final. I was challenged to create a Christmas No.1 using the brilliant singers that we\u2019d found over the last two years from the competition. Robbie\u2019s \u2018Angels\u2019 seemed like the perfect fit. When you listen to the lyrics, they speak to what carers do \u2018<em>and through it all, she offers me protection<\/em>\u2019!<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe journey to get here has been brilliant. Not only do we have nine brilliant care workers in the choir, but we\u2019ve also had the support of industry heavyweights to bring this together.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nine caregivers from franchise and independent care agencies across the UK have formed the Home Care\u2019s Got Talent Choir to create a new version of Robbie Williams\u2019 \u2018Angels\u2019 in a bid to become this year\u2019s Christmas No.1. The caregivers recorded their rendition of the 90s classic at the legendary Abbey Road Studios, joining the long [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":26513,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[106],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26512","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-updates"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.franchiselocal.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/HCGT-Choir-scaled.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.franchiselocal.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26512","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.franchiselocal.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.franchiselocal.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.franchiselocal.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.franchiselocal.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26512"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.franchiselocal.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26512\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.franchiselocal.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26513"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.franchiselocal.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26512"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.franchiselocal.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26512"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.franchiselocal.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26512"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}