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BBE offers financial resilience guides to member bands

Brass Bands England is offering how-to help to ensure your financial banding house is fit for purpose. .

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  The advice is open to member bands

Brass Bands England is providing a new resource to assist its member bands in gaining a better understanding of the working practices required to achieve long term financial resilience.

The aim of the set of 'how-to' guides is to help bands establish best-practices systems and procedures to ensure the smooth financial running of their organisation.

Resources:

The set of resources consists of:

1. The Role of Treasurer

2. Bookkeeping using computerised accounting systems

3. Financial procedures: a guide for Treasurers and finance staff

Find out more:

The guides sit within a wider suite of resources on Band Governance and compliment BBE's members-only in-depth training programme on band governance and strategy, with upcoming events on the topics of:

Understanding Finance

Band Organisation Essentials

Future Proofing your Band

More information:

To book for a training session, please visit the BBE Events page, or find out more about joining BBE.

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