Rave For Luke Night

On Monday 12th April, a fundraising night was held at the Cock & Bull in Uckfield in memory of Luke Bland.




Luke Bland was a member of the 4th Uckfield Scout Band for many years as a drummer. He was tragically taken from us last year and this is the first of several fundraising events planned to raise money to purchase musical instruments for local schools and organisations.

A total of £290.45 was raised from this event and it will be donated to the 4th Uckfield Scout Band to help purchase new instruments, equipment and to help towards repair costs.

Event organiser Becky Samuels said “I would like to thank all the local businesses that made donations. Luke Bland was loved by everyone that knew him and he would be so proud of how much this event raised”.

Donation

Last night the Band performed at The Cinques Port Club in Uckfield. We performed four parts from our 2010 Production in front of the club members and had pictures taken for the local paper.

We were also there to receive a cheque for £500 from The Cinques Ports Club as we were their charity of the year.

The money will go towards providing equipment for our newly formed Colourguard section.

We would like to thank all the members of The Cinques Ports Club for their kind donation and we would also like to thank Phil West for helping us transport our equipment for our performance.

www.cinqueportsclub.co.uk/

Music Camp

The Band had it's first music camp of the year this weekend.

We stayed at Parkwood Scout Camp near Poynings and at the end of the weekend we ensembled 3 parts of our 2010 competition show.

Pictures from camp are now on our Facebook page. Please use the link below to join.

New Website Live

So here it is, our new website.

www.4thuckfield.co.uk

Please keep checking back as new content will be added as well as our news section being updated.

Until then you please feel free to join one of our facebook group.

Band Workshop Night

Monday 30th November saw members of the band run a workshop for the Manitoba Beavers and Kipling Cubs, units of the 4th Uckfield Scout Group.


Members from both units were given the chance to ask questions about the instruments and to try playing them. But most of them just enjoyed making as much noise as possible with our percussion instruments.

Lewes Bonfire Celebrations

Remember, remember the fifth of November. The gunpowder Treason and Plot.

On 5th November, the Band took part in the Bonfire celebrations in Lewes with the Waterloo Bonfire Society.

With the first procession moving off at 6:20pm and the last procession not finishing until 9:45pm it was a very long night for the Band, but one that all the members enjoy every year.

We have taken part with Waterloo Bonfire Society for many years since the Band was reformed in 1986 and look forward to continuing taking part in years to come.

http://www.waterloobonfire.co.uk/

http://www.lewesbonfirecouncil.org.uk

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sussex_Bonfire_Societies

Newick Bonfire

Saturday 31st October saw the Band taking part in the bonfire celebrations at Newick. This is the second year the Band has been asked to perform in the celebrations, and it is a long night especially for the younger members.

The first procession of the night was the childrens procession which moved off at 6:15pm making it's way to the village green, where we had a short break before the formation of the main procession which moved off at 7:30pm.

The main procession looped around the village, making it's way to the village green, where we dropped out for our second break of the night as the procession continued around the village for a second time arriving back at the village green for the bonfire and firework display.

At 9:30pm we formed up for our last parade of the night, from the village green to the village hall and back to the bonfire.

http://www.newickbonfire.com/