Community band calls time with farewell celebration

Time Spanners, which formed in 2000, will end their time as a group with a special event later in the month.
The group performed summer and winter concerts and also held workshops.
Group founder, musician Mark T, said that they decided to end the group due to major financial difficulties.
He said that since 2009 community arts funding had plummeted and that the credit crunch had just made things increasingly worse.
The Farewell Time Spanners event will take place on Saturday, August 24, from 7.30pm until 9.30pm in the Council Chamber, Town Hall, Market Place.
Entry is free and the event will be for anyone who has enjoyed watching Time Spanners perform over the last 12 years to meet up with the Time Spanner team, to say farewell and to celebrate Time Spanners’ achievements.
During the evening there will be a welcome from Mark T, certificates will be given out to members, there will be a chance to view the Time Spanner movie Ten Years of Time Spanning and a launch of a poetry book by Richard Westall.
Time Spanner (Projects) was set up in December 2000, initially to give people with disabilities, especially those with learning difficulties, access to participatory arts workshops and events and to give them a platform from which they could share their work with the general public.
Time Spanners have been a feature at festivals, carnivals and public events throughout the South of England.