Please help bands to get £6k from Natwest
Please help if you can, it won’t cost anything and will take about 5 minutes of your time today.
Six BFBB member bands have been nominated for a Nat West CommunityForce award:
Deeside Silver Band
Enderby Youth Band
Gloucester Excelsior Training Band
Macclesfield Youth Brass Band
Ouston, Pelton District Community Brass Band
York RI Golden Rail Band
There are 393 x £6k awards being made so each of our member bands has a chance of winning if we can get them enough votes. As Louise Renshaw has indicated from Macclesfield Youth Brass Band:
“We’ve had over 260 votes so far and are currently in the top 3 projects in Cheshire but with just 5 days to go, the voting is going bananas and we really need more votes to keep us in with a chance of winning one of the three cash prizes.
£6000 is a huge amount of money for any charity and our volunteers could use it wisely to teach even more youngsters to play an instrument and enjoy being able to join a band. It’s sooooo close and every single vote is important.”
Jen Prior from Gloucester Excelsior has explained the voting process below:
“To vote you need to use the following link: http://communityforce.natwest.com/
This will take you to the Nat West Communityforce website and you need to click on ‘register’ at the top right hand side of the screen. You will then need to put in your email address and a password. Once you have received an automated email confirming your registration you will be able to go back into the website. To do this it is best to use the following link as this will take you directly to our cause:
http://communityforce.natwest.com/project/4371 – Gloucester Excelsior Training Band”
You are allowed 3 votes but can only vote once for each cause. So please use all three votes, the links for the other bands are:
http://communityforce.natwest.com/project/1574 – Macclesfield Youth Brass Band
http://communityforce.natwest.com/project/3933 – York RI Golden Rail Band
http://communityforce.natwest.com/project/2024 – Ouston, Pelton & District Community Brass Band
http://communityforce.natwest.com/project/128 – Deeside Silver Band
http://communityforce.natwest.com/project/4343 – Enderby Youth Band
If you haven’t got time to vote on-line you can vote by phone call 0800 2100 246 Lines open 24/7.
So let’s all go M.A.D. (Make A Difference) and spread the word to vote for these bands, voting closes at midday Monday 24 October.
Terry Luddington
BFBB Liaison Officer
Mobile: 07803 147101
Email: terry@bfbb.co.uk
Twitter: @tlmad4bb
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BFBB Website: www.bfbb.co.uk
Making A Difference Website: www.mad4bb.com