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Long Service & Lifetime Achievement Awards
The site now lists all the Long Service and Lifetime Achievement Awards made by NEMBBA since 2022.
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Final Information
I have now issued the final information to bands competing in our contest on Sunday 16th November. Copies of all the contest documentation (apart from the draw) are on the Documents page.
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Percussion Provided
A list of the percussion we will be providing for our November contest has been emailed to all the band secretaries. A copy may be found on our documents page.
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Entries Now Open For Our February Contest
Entries are now open to our annual area test piece contest at the Post Mill Centre on Saturday/Sunday 21st and 22nd February. The second and third sections will be on the Saturday, and all the other sections on the Sunday. For further information, please see our events page. To keep within the venues fire regulations,…
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NEMBBA Officers 2025/26
At our recent AGM, the following officers were re-elected for the forthcoming year: President Lynden CooperChairman Melanie CooperVice-Chairman Brian DraperAdministration Manager Robert StansfieldAssistant Administration Manager Kevin HoldgateTreasurer Kevin HoldgateTrophy Officer Jo Priestley The life vice-presidents of NEMBBA are Michael Allcock, Judith Beckett, Lynden Cooper, Melanie Cooper, Brian Draper, Stan Lippeatt, Marie Smith, and Sharon Stansfield.…
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Draw and Timings for our November Contest
I have now issued the draw and estimated timings to all the bands who have entered our contest on Sunday 16th November in The Post Mill Centre, South Normanton (bands, please do not put your draw or test piece on social media). If your band does not receive my email, please let me know and…
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Entries Closed For Our November Contest
We have now reached our capacity of 20 bands for our open own-choice test piece contest, which is being held on Sunday 16th November 2025 at Post Mill Centre, Market Street, South Normanton DE55 2EJ and I need to close the contest to further entries. My apologies to those bands who are missing out, particularly…
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NEMBBA AGM
The North East Midlands Brass Band Association’s A.G.M. will be held from 1:30 p.m. on Sunday 19th October at Shirland Miners’ Welfare Institute, 121-123 Main Road Shirland, Alfreton DE55 6BA. Representatives from all brass bands within NEMBBA’s geographical area of Derbyshire, Nottinghamshire and Lincolnshire are invited to attend, together with representatives from other member bands from…
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June Entertainment Contest Cancelled
NEMBBA has had to take the difficult decision to cancel our June entertainment contest due to insufficient entries. We apologise for the inconvenience and disappointment to the five bands who did support our contest. Our November own-choice test-piece contest is still going ahead as planned.
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Dates Set for our Annual Area Test Piece Contest
We are running our annual area test piece contest next year on Saturday 21st February and Sunday 22nd February, at our usual venue, The Post Mill Centre in South Normanton. To balance the number of entries on each day, we have rearranged the sections across the weekend: the Third and Second Sections will now play…
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