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How much space is required?
Do you do Charity events?
Viewing Policy
Can you use recorded music?
Can I view your certificates and risk assessment?
How much space is required?
Space Requirements
A guide to minimum space requirements, along with some suggestions for the ideal space:
Dance space
Minimum: 5m x 5m
Ideal: 6m x 13.5m (i.e. a badminton court).
Band space
Minimum: 4m x 3m (minimum for three members plus caller, in addition to dance space. With a drummer at least a metre more in one direction is needed).
Ideal: 7m x 3m
Morris Dance
Minimum: 5m x 5m
Do you do Charity events?
This is what Mike says about them
What he can do
Fees It is sometimes appropriate to donate a proportion of my fee, usually related to ticket prices, to the Charity as a specific donation or as a reduced fee. Where the band is involved it is often better to book a smaller line up. Two of the most successful events that did this then had enough ticket sales to increase the fee and add an extra musician in the last week.
Fundraising Events Certain types of events (eg Dance Through the Ages workshops) lend themselves to the smaller event. Events can raise between £70 & £250 for the charity after all expenses have been covered. However they do take a commitment from somebody to organise them and their success seems to be directly proportional to how involved the Charity become.
Background Music for certain events, such as fun runs etc, he has offered to play background music on a particular theme to entertain the crowd and encourage the runners etc. However if he is doing this for a low fee then he may take a full paying event if offered
What he will not do
Events for free or vastly reduced fees just because it is a charity. That can mean that he is donating 10 or 20 times the amount that individual members of the public are paying.
He cannot promise discounts on behalf of other band members – they make their own decisions.