Kirkbymoorside Band Hall

In October 2018 the band was finally able to get started with its ambitious plan to build an extension to the existing band room and things have gone so well since then that we have announced an official opening for the new hall on Sunday the 22nd September.

The extension will create a new 200 seat concert hall that will also be open for the local Scout Group to use. This idea first emerged in 2015 and, after a series of delays, the band acquired all the land that it needed for the new hall early in 2018.

The band has completed the internal decoration work. We are now on with furnishing the hall, e.g. staging seating and sound system, and ironing out a long list of fiddly tidying up tasks before the hall can be used by the Scouts and band.

The projected total cost for the entire project is now likely to come out at around £370,000 but the band did not commit to this build without financial backing. We are really grateful for the generosity of our supporters and the help that we have received through our Charitable grant applications. This has allowed us to do so much. Thank-you.

Even though we can see a way to finance the completion of the project, the appeal fund is still showing (end of July 2019) a shortfall of around £11,000 so if you can help us with a personal donation, with hand’s on support, or with personal fundraising efforts, we would still be very grateful of your assistance. We guarantee that any donations offered towards our project will be restricted solely to meeting our project costs. Any on line banking donations can be made using our sort code 40-26-15 and account number 71003607.

The band is also a Charity and Gift Aid offers a further 25% potential boost to our fundraising efforts. A standard Gift Aid form for cash donations can be found from the band website, but donations through Virgin will also allow Gift Aid to be collected.