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WCCP is blessed with a dedicated and hard-working Merchandise team. The team sell basic music accessories, such as pencils, notebooks and clips for music stands and WCCP labels. The team can be found at Ruishton workshops or residential events, to tempt you to buy even more music accessories.

Online Store

Mudchutney has been selected to be the Official Retailer for our club . You can click on their website and order a range of clothing with the WCCP Logo e.g. T-Shirt, Hoodie, Sweatshirt in a range of colours and sizes. You can also buy a Coaster, Mug or Tote Bag – which are great WCCP goodies for any club member!

If you want to check out any items before ordering direct from the Mudchutney site the Merchandise team have sample sweatshirts and T-shirts available for inspection

 
WCCP offers various sessions on Zoom, as it is a good way to get together when we are geographically distant. The attendees stay on mute, whilst a volunteer leads the tune. The sheet music is shown on screen to play along with. Zoom is great for any standard of player, as others can’t hear you!  It is usually best to adjust your Zoom audio settings to "original sound on" and to manually adjust microphone volume to pick up the sound of the concertina. 
 
General Zoom playing sessions
For club members, we will run three sessions over the winter of 22/23, to fit in between the Ruishton play days. These are listed on the Programme page, with zoom joining details sent out to all Members closer to the time. To date the tunes have mostly been in the Folk genre but any genre is welcomed and the choice is down to the volunteers who lead the tunes. We are always looking for more volunteers to lead tunes.
 
Anglo Zoom 

WCCP is keen to support the development of Anglo concertina playing skills in the club. We will organise a couple of workshops in 2023 on Zoom, which will focus on skills development for Anglo. More details to follow via email.

 
Duet Zoom
Paul McCann runs an ad-hoc Duet "Chat and Play" Zoom meeting.  Although aimed mainly at players of the duet concertina systems, the sessions also offer an advice forum for those considering taking up a duet system.
 
English Zoom
A few Zoom meetings for the English system have been held.  If any member has suggestions for topics and techniques to be covered please contact Chris Reid.
 
For any suggestions regarding the use of  Zoom by WCCP please contact Chris Reid on This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
 
Members are advised of upcoming sessions by email  and dates are also on the Programme page.
 
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This page contains links to the Club's archive of photographs up until 2015. Nowadays most photographs of our events are posted on our FaceBook Photo Page.

March Residential Weekends

 
March Kilve 2015 2
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

 

 

October Residential Weekends

Sidmouth Festival

 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Other Events

Ruishton Band July 2011
TivvyFest May 2011
J25 Band Charity Concert 2011
Bampton 2006-2011
Bude 2009

A LIMITED NUMBER OF YOUTH BURSARIES WILL BE AVAILABLE FOR RESIDENTIAL WEEKENDS

The Bursary Fund was set up with funds provided from a gift from Fiona Mitchell.  It is available for young people up to the age of 21 and in full time education.  The young person needs to show promise and commitment to concertina playing.

The Young Person pays £10 towards the cost in accommodation.  For under 18 years of age, accommodations will be paid for a Parent/Guardian.

Click here for a Bursary application form which may be completed online or emailed to:

John Lambert,  This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

To further the interest in playing Concertina, the WCCP has set up a Coffer Fund which is available to groups of Concertina players to support Concertina related projects. This offer is open to all Concertina groups and is not exclusive to WCCP members.

Such projects might include:

• engaging professional tuition for the group to improve their playing
• to buy music for their group
• to assist in the purchase of an instrument for the group
• to assist in the hire of a venue for practice for the group
• to sponsor a public event to publicise or recruit for their group

The Concertina Support Fund is being administered by John Lambert on behalf of the WCCP committee. Any group wishing to apply for funding should complete the application form available on this website and email it to John at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. 

John will make contact with the applicant to discuss the application and clarify details. He will then recommend the application on behalf of the applicant to the WCCP for funding approval. All applications will be looked upon favourably, subject to available funds. A report on the outcome of the project will be expected at an agreed time

Click here for a Concertina Coffer Fund Application form.

The form is a PDF document which can be saved to your local disk by clicking the right mouse button on the above link and selecting Save Link As from the menu.

In the unlikely event that your computer cannot open PDF documents, you will need to install Acrobat Reader from Adobe. You can download it from this page. 

A group of concertina players from around the New Forest area.

We meet on Wednesday every week, usually at Greyfriars Community Centre in Ringwood

New members welcome.

Contact Richard Lane on 01202 763043 for more details

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