The 37th Kingswood Scout Group was the second highest vote of all projects across the UK. (only one project in the Ulster region was higher than the scouts project) and means we would have succeeded no matter which project we were up against. It emphasises just how effective our campaign was. A bigh well done […]
Drum Corps Europe would like to invite all European corps to the DCE 2009 European Symposium. The event will be held on Saturday, January 24th in the London area. The symposium is open to all corps staff and board who are interested in Drum Corps Europe, the DCE Championships and the drum corps activity in […]
More than 70 participants from all field bands will take part in the National Clinic week in Durban (South Africa) from December 7 through 14 2008. Members are from all parts of South Africa and have been selected carefully. All of them are instructors and valuable members with talent and vision. With this initiative the […]
Drum Corps United Kingdom/British Youth Band Association and the British Federation of Youth Marching Band Organisations have been contacted by Blue Devils of Concord, California, USA to advise that unfortunately they will not be able to travel to Europe in 2009. Over the past few months much work had taken place to try and enable […]
Following nominations being received and a postal election process being completed, Drum Corps United Kingdom are pleased to announce details of their Board for 2009. The four Board members from 2008 had all been nominated to remain in office for a further term and therefore Joe Fitzpatrick, Chris Jones, Jason Oates and Rob Swindells will […]
Black Knights Drum and Bugle Corps have this week appointed a new Corps Director. Rus Rogers will be taking over the role following the departure of Ken Mansfield. Ken made the difficult decision to stand down as corps director following changes in his personal circumstances, which would have made it very difficult to commit his […]
The Scout Hut Development project was awarded a cheque for £50,000 from the peoples million live on ITV News West. The money will see the replacement of an old, out of date and increasingly unsafe hall that makes up part of the group’s premises. The new hall will enable the group to offer a wider […]
FB Drum & Bugle Corps from The Hague – The Netherlands have presented their new logo. The corps thought it was time for a new logo as the corps changed their name from Federatieband to FB Drum & Bugle Corps earlier this year. The corps from The Hague was looking for a modern replacement of […]
Campaigns are swinging into action across the region as eight groups in ITV West learned today that they have made it through to compete in The People’s Millions TV contest for Big Lottery Fund money worth £5 million. Five groups in the region will win awards of up to £50,000 each for their community project […]
Representatives from all Drum Corps are welcome to attend whether they are interested in taking part in any of the DCUK events in 2009 or simply to find out more the Drum Corps activity in the UK. DCUK have received enquiries from over 20 different Corps regarding the 2009 season, most of these enquiries have […]
NEW on the DCP Forums