Notes for the Festival Secretary

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1. Your nomination(s) for the Regional Championship should be made with the help of your adjudicator and by your Committee. It should specify the piece to be performed
   which will be the performance at your Festival which merited this nomination.
   If it is impossible to fit this performance into eight minutes, please contact the Championship Secretary (address below) for advice.
2. You may nominate one performer from each of the three disciplines (Speech and Drama, Dance and Music).  It is sadly not practical at the moment to separate Voice into a discrete category.  Your performer must have been under 18 on the qualifying date for your Festival.
3. You may nominate a group to perform.  The group may be up to ten in number and must not include anyone over 18 on your Festival qualifying date.
4. The qualifying dates for this Championship are 1st September 2026 — 31st July 2027.  Performance at a Festival outside this time does not qualify for a nomination for the Regional Championship.
5. Check that your nominee(s) will be available on Saturday 4th September 2027.
   Performers will be expected to attend for the whole day (typically 10:00am – 4:00pm).
6. Complete the nomination form. We need to know the name and contact information for each performer who will then send further details directly to us.
   You may wish to ask him/her to send you a copy so you can check what they have submitted.  You may fill in the downloadable .pdf but it will be better if you can complete the online form provided.
7. All nominations must be received before Friday 16th July 2027. We won’t accept late nominations. If your Festival falls well before this date, do not delay sending your nomination(s) to us.
8. Give the address of the Performer Form and Information Sheet to your nominee(s).  Direct them to this website where they will find a form.  They can download a .pdf but persuade them to fill it in online.  It is the nominee’s responsibility to complete the form — this is not something you can do for them! We can help them if necessary.
   If you nominate a group, ensure that they fill in the appropriate form.
9. We will expect to receive the Performer Form within four weeks of your nomination. You may want to ask him/her to send you a copy so that you can check that it’s correct.
10. If you decide not to nominate any performers, please let us know as soon as possible.
11. There have been awkward situations where a performance has been entered into an unexpected discipline.  Dance performances will be judged on the dance element of that performance while Speech and Drama entries will focus on the voice and stage presence.

Send all correspondence to:
championship@skiptonmusicfestival.co.uk
(Skipton is lending some of its infrastructure to the organisation of this Championship.)
We are expecting that most information will be exchanged by email.
(Please warn your nominee(s) to watch for emails. They don’t always!)

If you need to contact the organising committee by other means, write or phone:
Jill Wright, BIFF Regional Representative
15 Walker Close
Glusburn, Keighley
BD20 8PW
01535 634526 or 07971 015995

For general information about the Championship, contact the Regional Representative;
Jill Wright, 01535 634526 jill@woodchipcomputers.co.uk
If you have a technical problem or query, contact our Techie;
Chris Wright, 01535 634526 championship@skiptonmusicfestival.co.uk