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Re: funding and sponsorship

To: brass-band@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: funding and sponsorship
From: Mark Nichols <mnic@xxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 25 Jan 1996 09:20:58 -0500
Reply-to: brass-band@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx


At 10:42 AM 1/24/96 +1100, you wrote:
>
>
>To the brass-band listees:
>	For the past ten years the Warringah Concert Brass Band has been
>sponsored to the (small) sum of Aus$2000 per year by the Warringah Municipal
>Council. In a letter we received this week, the Council notified us that it
>was changing the way it distrubutes arts-related funding and that means we
>will no longer be funded as a band, but will need to apply annually with no
>guarantees. We are strictly non-profit and barely  make enough to survive on
>"play-outs" (performances). This will just make things more difficult than
>they already are. We have promoted ourselves to the Council as valuable and
>economical representatives of  the Warringah Shire Council at State and
>National Contests, as well as at our numerous performances in the Shire
>itself. Our words apparently fall on deaf ears. I am told that other brass
>bands in adjacent shires are funded annually with much larger sums. I would
>be interested to hear from other bands what the "norms' are (if any) for
>funding bands linked to Shire Councils or other local government entities.
>
>BTW  $1.00 Australian = about UK 0.50p, USA 0.75c

The Spires Brass Band, located in Frederick, MD, USA, received $750US from
the local arts counsel.  This amount is generally considered low as this
provides us very little in terms of operating expenses.  Hope this helps.


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