North East Midlands Brass Band Association

Author: robert_stansfield

  • 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,…

  • 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.…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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.

  • 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…

  • Entries are now open for our Autumn Contest

    Entries are now open for NEMBBA’s open own-choice test piece contest, which is being held on Sunday 16th November 2025 at the Post Mill Centre, Market Street, South Normanton DE55 2EJ (please note our new venue for this contest), for all sections (fourth to championship) together with sections for un-registered and training bands to play a…

  • The NEMBBA Entertainments Contest 2025. It’s Back!!

    NEMBBA is pleased to announce that the ever popular Entertainments contest is back on the calendar and will be held at The Post Mill Centre, South Normanton on Sunday 22nd June 2025. The Format:

  • Brian Eggleshaw

    NEMBBA is saddened to learn of the death of our vice-president Brian Eggleshaw. Brian was contest secretary of both NEMBBA and the Midlands Area for many years until his retirement in 2011. Brian was also the secretary of the former Ransomes band and contest secretary of the old Butlins contest. We send our condolences to…