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[Nickbat]

"....So, churches, village halls, charity shops and sports clubs across the United Kingdom face a new £20 million levy. New regulations by Lord Mandelson's Whitehall empire are to abolish charities’ and voluntary groups’ long-standing exemption from paying music licensing fees – hitting them with unexpected new bills just for holding events with recorded music or for playing a radio....


...Lord Mandelson’s department admits that the new levies will cost voluntary groups up to £20 million a year. Some organisations will 'cease playing music' because they cannot afford a licence, and it will hit a quarter of a million organisations – 140,000 charities, 6,750 charity shops, 66,440 sports clubs, 4,000 community buildings, 5,000 rural halls and 45,000 religious buildings."

http://archbishop-cranmer.blogspot.com/2010/03/church-commisioner-mandelson.html

What is it about the British way of life that these people hate so much that they're hell-bent on destroying it? They came for your pub, they came for your local post office and, from 10th April, they will have their sights set on the hub of the village...the village hall.

I'm glad I don't live in a village, myself. I'd be getting a bit upset now.

Lord Fondlebum, again, though. What do you expect?

[Lizzie_Zoom]

[size=24]Have no fear,
The Conservatives will soon be here,
In power to turn your fears,
As you drink bears,
And bring you cheer, cheer, cheer!
[/size]

[doog]

A ppl licence is not thousands of pounds
 I need one as im a dj  but so does everyone from  dance class instructors  to night clubs and everything else inbetween

this is not a new thing

Doug

[Nickbat]

A ppl licence is not thousands of pounds
 I need one as im a dj  but so does everyone from  dance class instructors  to night clubs and everything else inbetween

this is not a new thing

Doug

It is new as charities’ and voluntary groups’ long-standing exemption from paying music licensing fees is to be abolished from 10th April 2010.

Whether or not it's a great financial burden would depend on the size of the event. As I see it, a  few kids gathering for a birthday party in a church hall would now have to pay the fee.

What really grates is the fact that this government spends money like it's going out of fashion and then has the bare-faced cheek to try and recoup cash from village halls and the like. Petty-minded bureaucracy at its worst. 

[Varche]

Live to work or work to live?

[STMO999]

[size=24]Have no fear,
The Conservatives will soon be here,
In power to turn your fears,
As you drink bears,
And bring you cheer, cheer, cheer!
[/size]

I wouldn't try to drink a bear, I believe they're quite ferocious.

[Lizzie_Zoom]

..............well this is what the Performing Rights Society states about having a licence NOW..........forget about "after 1st April"

http://www.prsformusic.com/users/businessesandliveevents/musicforbusinesses/charityandcommunity/Pages/default.aspx#3

From what I remember of my retail days and organizing charity events in church halls, there was very few exceptions for not having a licence........unless you just risked it!!

[Hannah Judes Dad]

[size=24]Have no fear,
The Conservatives will soon be here,
In power to turn your fears,
As you drink bears,
And bring you cheer, cheer, cheer!
[/size]

I wouldn't try to drink a bear, I believe they're quite ferocious.

Perhaps Elizabeth is an expert bear wrestler in her spare time 

[TheBoy]

Mandleson is a corrupt little tosser, and takes too many backhanders. If you don't backhand him, he blocks you.


I sincerely hope he dies a slow painful death, useless prick.

[STMO999]

Mandleson is a corrupt little tosser, and takes it up the arse.. If you don't bonk his jacksie, he blocks you.


I sincerely hope catches AIDS and dies a slow painful death, useless prick.

 

[mudflap]

Will "members-only" private clubs be exempt from paying public performance licence fees?   

[albitz]

[size=24]Have no fear,
The Conservatives will soon be here,
In power to turn your fears,
As you drink bears,
And bring you cheer, cheer, cheer!
[/size]

That is looking less likely by the day. Ive always said they backed the wrong horse with Cameron, and it looks like its going to be proved true. I take no pleasure in saying so, although I think they are useless I hate nu liebore with a passion and would vote for anything or anyone if it helped get rid of them.

[albitz]

Will "members-only" private clubs be exempt from paying public performance licence fees?   

They are not exempt currently. I am a commitee member of a members only club and we have to pay for a licence annually just to be able to play CD,s in the club.

[Lizzie_Zoom]

[size=24]Have no fear,
The Conservatives will soon be here,
In power to turn your fears,
As you drink bears,
And bring you cheer, cheer, cheer!
[/size]

That is looking less likely by the day. Ive always said they backed the wrong horse with Cameron, and it looks like its going to be proved true. I take no pleasure in saying so, although I think they are useless I hate nu liebore with a passion and would vote for anything or anyone if it helped get rid of them.

I am getting increasingly afraid you could be right Albs!   Cameron has certainly got his work to do to reverse some damaging issues!

He was bloody brilliant on the Alan Titmarsh show this afternoon; but he needs a lot more of that!

[Lizzie_Zoom]

Mandleson is a corrupt little tosser, and takes too many backhanders. If you don't backhand him, he blocks you.


I sincerely hope he dies a slow painful death, useless prick.

You are being far too kind there TB!!

I'd love to keep him incarcerated and castrated until the bugger dies!!