North East Midlands Brass Band Association

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Latest News

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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, we need to limit our sections to a maximum of ten bands. Please note that the first, second and third sections were fully subscribed very quickly last year.

    Our treasurer has requested that no entry fees be paid until after 1st December, but entry forms may be returned now to reserve your place at the contest.

  • NEMBBA Officers 2025/26

    At our recent AGM, the following officers were re-elected for the forthcoming year:

    President Lynden Cooper
    Chairman Melanie Cooper
    Vice-Chairman Brian Draper
    Administration Manager Robert Stansfield
    Assistant Administration Manager Kevin Holdgate
    Treasurer Kevin Holdgate
    Trophy 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.

    The AGM appointed three NEMBBA delegates to the Midlands Regional Committee:

    Michael Allcock
    Alex Gibson
    Antony Fawbert

    The NEMBBA officials on the Midlands Regional Committee are:
    Ann Street (Midlands Region Minutes Secretary)
    Robert Stansfield (Midlands Region Trophy Officer)

  • 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 I will resend it.

    The estimated timings for the day are:

    9:45 a.m. Training Band (1 band)

    10:10 a.m. 4th Section (4 bands)

    11:25 a.m. Results (Training Band and 4th Sections)

    11:45 a.m. 3rd Section (5 bands)

    1:10 p.m. Results (3rd Section & Lunch)

    1:40 p.m. 2nd Section (3 bands)

    2:45 p.m. Results (2nd Section)

    3:00 p.m. 1st Section: (5 bands)

    4:45 p.m. Championship Section: (2 bands)

    5:35 p.m. Results (1st & Championship Sections)

  • 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 to those bands who have supported our autumn contest over the last three years. If any bands are still interested in entering, please email me (admin@nembba.org.uk) and I will let you know if any bands withdraw.

  • 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 outside our area (bands who contested with us last February or will be contesting with us in November).

    The primary business of the A.G.M. is to receive our officer’s reports, to elect/re-elect our president, chairman, administration managers, treasurer, trophy officer, and delegates to the Midlands Area Committee, to discuss our February and November contests, and consider other contests or events which we could run. This is also an opportunity for you to make suggestions as to how NEMBBA can better support your band.

    Please share this post to anyone who may be interested in attending if they are not already members of this group (or tell them about it if they are not on Facebook). I have also emailed these details of the A.G.M. to all band secretaries for whom I have contact details.

  • 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 on the Saturday and the Fourth, First and Championship Sections will play on the Sunday.

    The sections for training and unregistered bands to perform a 20 minute entertainment programme have moved to the Sunday.

    Entry forms will be available on our website after our A.G.M. in October.

  • 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 15-minute programme.

    For those of you who contested with us in February or at last year’s autumn contest, this contest will be run along similar lines with our aim being to run the event as flexibly as possible to enable as many bands as we can accommodate at the venue to have an enjoyable day playing music.

    Copies of the entry form and the rules are on our events page. If your band wishes to enter, please complete the entry form, and post or email it to Robert Stansfield (the details are on the form). The receipt of all entries will be acknowledged by email.

    The closing date for entries is 1st October 2025 unless all the contest places are taken beforehand.

    If you require any further information before entering, please email Robert Stansfield for further details.