Support Maltby Miners Welfare Band

Maltby Miners Welfare Band is part of a national initiative launched by Brass Bands England to save the many UK brass bands who are struggling to survive through the COVID-19 pandemic. Brass bands are a core of their local community, and many risk disappearing altogether without your help. 

We are a brass band made up of amateur musicians from Maltby and its surrounding areas. We enjoy entertaining local communities with our traditional brass band music.

Because of the pandemic, we have not been able to perform at any events in 2020, which has also meant we have had no income at all this year. Despite this, we have still had to find money to pay for many of our outgoings, which is around £3500 each year.

Please help us secure our future by making a donation, or perhaps buying a reward. Any amount you feel you can donate, either large or small, is most gratefully received. We hope to be making music again soon!

Why are we crowdfunding?

In a normal year, the band raises money by performing at many events in around the local area, from summer park concerts and weddings, to packed Christmas Concerts and Carol playing.  Unfortunately, due to the restrictions this year, we have not been able to play any of these events, and so we have had no income at all. It may well be the first time in our 109 year history that the band has not played!

Despite this, we have still had to meet our ongoing running costs, as well as pay for new equipment to enable us to start rehearsing again in a COVID safe way, ready to play our concerts again as soon as we are able.

About Maltby Miners Welfare Band

Formed in 1911, the Maltby Miners Welfare Band is still going strong after more than 100 years.  The band is based in Maltby, a town six miles from Rotherham, South Yorkshire.

We are a very active concert and contest band, made up of around 30 players both young and old, and over the years have built up a good reputation within the local community. We always welcome new members, and we also have a training band which welcomes learners of all ages and abilities. 

We perform mainly in South Yorkshire and the surrounding counties at Galas and fetes, park bandstands, castles and stately homes, village halls and churches, and regularly at the Rotherham Civic Theatre. Last year was possibly one of the busiest and most successful in the bands history - as well as performing at more 30 contests and concerts, it saw us winning the 4th section Yorkshire Area championships, which then gave us the the honour of representing Yorkshire in the National Brass Band Championships. 

About Save Our Brass Bands

Brass bands exist in every corner of the UK, with over 30,000 people of all ages and standards taking part in weekly activity – rehearsing, performing and providing entertainment for their local community.

But we risk losing this forever.

Brass Bands saw their main source of income disappear in an instant when they ceased being able to perform in March in response to the Covid-19 pandemic. 

Months later, we still don’t know when normal performances will be able to take place. A significant loss in income over the Summer months, paired with necessary expenditure needed to make rehearsal spaces Covid compliant means that many Brass Bands are in a perilous financial situation.

Without urgent support, we could lose our nation’s amazing Brass Bands. Please help us to make sure they survive this crisis and will be there to be enjoyed by future generations.

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