Next year’s contest will be over the weekend of the 15th and 16th February 2025 at the Post Mill Centre, Market Street, South Normanton DE55 2EJ. Training Bands, Unregistered Bands, Fourth and Second Sections will play on the Saturday and Third, First and Championship Sections will play on the Sunday. Entry forms will be available…

A big thank you to everybody who worked so hard to make this weekend’s contest a success: The full results of the contest are: Training Band Section 1) Ratby Crescendo Band (Becky Cook)2) Long Eaton Silver Prize Band (Sharon Stansfield) Best instrumentalist: Daniel Rigley (kit) Long Eaton Silver Prize Band Unregistered Band Section 1) Shirland…

I have now issued the final information to bands competing in our contest on Saturday 17th and Sunday 18th February. Copies of all the documents send to the bands (apart from the draw) are on the Documents page.

A list of the percussion we will be providing for each of the graded sections at our contest has been emailed to all the band secretaries. A copy may be found on our documents page. Please let Robert Stansfield know if you think we have overlooked anything.               For the unregistered and training band sections,…

Please note that entries to the second section are now closed (each section is restricted to ten bands to ensure that we keep within the fire regulations concerning the number of people in the building at any one time).

Entries are now closed for the third, first and championship sections on the Sunday (18th) of our February contest. My apologies to any bands who were planning to enter this contest, and whom we can no longer accommodate. We still have room for a couple more bands in the training, unregistered, fourth and second sections…

I am delighted to announce that John Roberts will be adjudicating the unregistered, training band, fourth and second sections at our area test piece contest on Saturday 17th February and that Alan Morrison will adjudicating the third, first and championship sections on the Sunday. Entries to the first section are now closed, but there is…

In the ten days since we first advertised NEMBBA’s February area test piece contest at Post Mill Centre, we have already received entries from ten first section bands. Due to fire regulations, this is maximum number of bands we can accept for any one section: my apologies to any bands who will now miss out.…

Entries are now open to our annual area test piece contest at the Post Mill Centre on 17th and 18th February. For further information, please see our events page.

Thank you to everyone who worked so hard to make yesterday’s contest such a success: David Ashworth our adjudicator; Marie Smith our registrar; Mike Allcock and Melanie Cooper for compèring the contest; Mark Davis and Graham Healey for transporting and managing all the percussion during the day; Jo Priestley for looking after all our trophies;…