On the evening of May 16^th 2009, Lynn and Richard are going to be hosting a five thousand ticket music concert at Trentham Gardens in Staffordshire.

Richard is an experienced production director who has great experience hosting large scale company events.
During the day of the 16^th May we will be hosting a children’s concert, once again with five thousand capacity.

 The proceeds from both the day and evening will be donated to Douglas Macmillan Hospice in Trentham, Staffordshire. The reason behind doing this is a personal one as Lynn's husband has terminal cancer and has not been given long to live. The intention is to ensure his name lives on and to make some good come from a difficult situation.  This event is hoped to raise well in excess of one hundred thousand pounds for the hospice. 

Our overall goal is to raise one million pounds in five years for local charites.
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We have secured Trentham Gardens in North Staffordshire who are prepared to donate the use of the site for the event and to be our main ticket seller, they are offering large scale promotion. We will be using the media, and all avenues possible.

 The music at night time will begin at seven pm through till eleven pm. one of the warm up bands will be "The Swinging Sixties" who have an excellent reputation and are actively followed by people from the UK. They have also played in other countries. 

Costings for the event amount to £75,000, and we now need to secure sponsors to enable us to ensure this event happens. 
In return for sponsoring the event we have worked out various sponsorship packages, the platinum package will give the company main stage promotion, stands in the ground during both the day and night, LCD screen promotion to all ticket holders. We then have gold, silver and bronze packages to offer too, each with a sliding scale of company promotion

During the day of the 16th May 2009 at the same venue we will be hosting a very different event for schools who wish to be involved............ " Battle of the Bands competition", once again there will be a five thousand capacity. Schools will be expected to provide their own band...........either rock, pop, soul, metal, duo or acoustic 
 
Each band will have to register with their names and band name and genre of music. Each band will play 2 songs and will be judged by a panel on their musical ability and recording suitability. The winner will announced on the day and will open the night time concert with one or two songs so that they will support whoever is the headline act. They will then get to spend a day in a recording studio at Stoke on Trent university. 
Each band must provide their own instruments and Amps and have 3 road crews to assist with change-overs. Each band must play one cover song and one original song. Each band must consist entirely of musicians from the same school. 
We really believe that this is going to be one of the most prestigious events that schools can be involved in. Places for schools are limited and in order to reserve their place we need them to express their interest by return of email. 
We will be creating our booking forms shortly and once we have a list of interested schools we will then be writing to confirm that they are one of our selected schools for this event 

For information with regard to our Battle of the Bands competition and how you can apply email Lynn at Grocott3@aol.com

for information with regard to sponsoring any part of this event email Lynn

at Grocott3@aol.com