Sunday for Sammy is a series of biannual charity concerts

Benefit concert

A benefit concert or charity concert is a concert, show or gala featuring musicians, comedians, or other performers that is held for a charitable purpose, often directed at a specific and immediate humanitarian crisis. Such events raise both funds and public awareness to address the cause at...

 held in aid of the Sammy Johnson Memorial Fund, which benefits young performers. The concerts have been held at Newcastle City Hall

Newcastle City Hall

Newcastle City Hall is a concert hall, located in Newcastle upon Tyne which has hosted many popular music and classical artists throughout the years, as well as standup and comedy acts. Opened in 1927, the City Hall was built as a part of a development which also included the adjacent City Pool...

, with the exception of 2006, when the show has hosted at The Sage Gateshead. The show is performed twice on one day, with each being recorded for a DVD release, from which 75% of profits go to the fund. As of 2010, there have been six events, with four filmed for DVD release.

The concerts are hosted by Tim Healy

Tim Healy (actor)

Timothy Malcolm Healy is an English actor. He is best known for playing Dennis Patterson in the television series Auf Wiedersehen, Pet. He is married to the actress Denise Welch.-Career:...

 and (until 2008) Jimmy Nail

Jimmy Nail

James Bradford "Jimmy" Nail is an English singer-songwriter, actor, musician, film producer, film score composer and television writer....

, featuring a range of personalities hailing from North East England

North East England

North East England is one of the nine official regions of England. It covers Northumberland, County Durham, Tyne and Wear, and Teesside . The only cities in the region are Durham, Newcastle upon Tyne and Sunderland...

, including Denise Welch

Denise Welch

Jacqueline Denise Healy is an English actress, dancer and television presenter.-Early life:Denise Welch was born in Ebchester, County Durham, to father Vin and mother Ann and has a younger sister Debbie...

, Billy Mitchell and Brendan Healy. Dick Clement

Dick Clement

Dick Clement, OBE is an English writer.Born in Westcliff-on-Sea, Essex, England, Clement was educated at Bishop's Stortford College and is best known for his writing partnership with Ian La Frenais. Generally, Clement and La Frenais write comedies, or dramas with a comic tone...

 and Ian La Frenais

Ian La Frenais

Ian La Frenais, OBE, , is an English writer best known for his creative partnership with Dick Clement. They are most famous for television series including, The Likely Lads, Whatever Happened to the Likely Lads?, Porridge, Lovejoy and Auf Wiedersehen, Pet.They have also written various other work...

 contribute sketches based on their television series Auf Wiedersehen, Pet

Auf Wiedersehen, Pet

Auf Wiedersehen, Pet is a British comedy-drama television programme about seven English migrant construction workers. In the first series, the men live and work on a building site in Düsseldorf....

, which have featured guest appearances from the surviving original 'magnificent seven'. The concerts usually conclude with all of the performers returning to the stage to sing Lindisfarne

Lindisfarne (band)

Lindisfarne were a British folk/rock group from Newcastle upon Tyne established in 1970 and fronted by singer/songwriter Alan Hull. Their music combined a strong sense of yearning with an even stronger sense of fun...

's "Run for Home".

The fund was established in memorial to Sammy Johnson

Sammy Johnson

- Biography :The son of Samuel Johnson and Thomasina Scott, his birth name was Ronald Samuel Johnson. He was brother to two brothers Kenneth , Raymond and two sisters Valerie and Catherine. He has two children Lorraine and Lynn.Johnson was raised in Gateshead and lived on the Springwell Estate...

, an actor from North East England and close friend of Healy and Nail, who died suddenly in 1998.

Shows

Number	|Date	|DVD number	|
1	2000	n/a
2	2002	n/a
3	2004
The first show released commercially on DVD. The ensemble perform Lindisfarne's "Run for Home".
4	2006
Performed at The Sage Gateshead. The ensemble perform "That's What Friends Are For That's What Friends Are For "That's What Friends Are For" is a 1982 song written by Burt Bacharach and Carole Bayer Sager and introduced by Rod Stewart for the soundtrack of the film Night Shift.-Dionne Warwick cover:... ".
5	10 February 2008
Tim Healy opens the show with "That's Living Alright That's Living Alright That's Living Alright is a single by British singer Joe Fagin, written by David Mackay and Ken Ashby. The single was backed with another Fagin song, "Breaking Away". Both were produced by David Mackay and recorded as theme songs to the television series Auf Wiedersehen, Pet. The double single... ". Liam Mower Liam Mower Liam Mower is an English actor and dancer. Best known for his talent for ballet, he was one of the three boys who shared the lead role in the original London cast of Billy Elliot the Musical. He is also the youngest person ever to win a Laurence Olivier Award.-Early years:Liam is from Kingston... , one of the first actors to play Billy Elliot in the musical Billy Elliot the Musical Billy Elliot the Musical is a musical based on the 2000 film Billy Elliot. The music is by Sir Elton John, and book and lyrics are by Lee Hall, who wrote the film's screenplay. The plot revolves around motherless Billy, who trades boxing gloves for ballet shoes...  in which Healy starred, appeared to dance and perform "Electricity". This was the first Sunday for Sammy concert without Jimmy Nail. Christopher Fairbank Christopher Fairbank Christopher Fairbank is an English actor best known for his role as Albert Arthur Moxey in the hit comedy-drama series Auf Wiedersehen, Pet.-Career:...  and Timothy Spall Timothy Spall Timothy Leonard Spall, OBE is an English character actor and occasional presenter.-Early life:Spall, the third of four sons, was born in Battersea, London. His mother, Sylvia R. , was a hairdresser, and his father, Joseph L. Spall, was a postal worker...  reprised their roles in an AWP sketch set in the times of Robin Hood Robin Hood Robin Hood was a heroic outlaw in English folklore. A highly skilled archer and swordsman, he is known for "robbing from the rich and giving to the poor", assisted by a group of fellow outlaws known as his "Merry Men". Traditionally, Robin Hood and his men are depicted wearing Lincoln green clothes.... .
6	7 February 2010
A guest appearance from Mark Knopfler Mark Knopfler Mark Freuder Knopfler, OBE is a Scottish-born British guitarist, singer, songwriter, record producer and film score composer. He is best known as the lead guitarist, vocalist, and songwriter for the British rock band Dire Straits, which he co-founded in 1977... , who played extracts from a number of his songs, before playing, on the orders from a specially-recorded video message from Alan Shearer Alan Shearer Alan Shearer OBE, DL is a retired English footballer. He played as a striker in the top level of English league football for Southampton, Blackburn Rovers, Newcastle United and for the England national team... , "Going Home (Theme of the Local Hero)".