Help Kippax Band Get To The National Finals 2021

Aim

Help us raise £5000 so we can represent Yorkshire at the National Finals held in Cheltenham over the weekend of 18th & 19th September 2021.

Kippax Band are 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. 

Yorkshire’s current 3rd section double Champions want to represent Yorkshire at the finals. 

Why are we crowdfunding?

Kippax Band risks not being able to represent Yorkshire at the National Finals.

Your donations will be used to fund the bands hotel and travel to Cheltenham.  Should the finals be cancelled, your donations will be used to help refurbish the bandroom.

About Kippax Band

Kippax Band has a long and proud history in brass banding dating back to the early 1800‘s

 In 2019 we won the 3rd section of the Yorkshire Area for the 1st time in 40 years!!

 In March of 2020 we claimed the title again and secured our promotion to the 2nd section.  

Then Covid hit.

Due to the pandemic, our chance to compete in Cheltenham was cancelled, and shortly afterwards we heard that the Yorkshire regional competition for 2021 is cancelled too.

Kippax Band understand completely the need to pause getting together for now.  We’re therefore preparing and rehearsing at home on our own, ready to come back together for the next National Finals in September 2021.

We fully intend to compete for the National title - but to get there requires significant funds, and because of Coronavirus, we haven’t been able to perform and raise those funds at all this year.  Please help us get there!

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.

#SaveOurBrassBands

Please donate, share this page widely and do what you can to help us to make sure our Brass Bands survive this crisis.

This project successfully funded on 31st December 2020