CARE home residents in York will join The Big Christmas Care Singalong this year. The event replaces the very popular Xmas Presence, which, for the past five years, has seen a team of volunteers led by Big Ian Donaghy give a family Christmas Day to older people living alone in the city. Ian says that, unfortunately, as with almost everything this year, Xmas Presence has had to be cancelled because of Covid-19, so the speaker and dementia campaigner hatched a plan to unite the world of care this Christmas with an online event called The Big Christmas Care Singalong. He took over a warehouse with the help of Mark Parker of AV Matrix and, socially distanced with great care and a green screen, one by one he invited singers to perform carols and other Christmas songs.