Funding

Thank you for visiting the funding page of the Dorking Community Bandstand.

When the idea of a community bandstand was first suggested, clearly funding was an early concern. Our work and discussions with those who have recently built or renovated bandstands has shown that we needed to raise around £250,000 – £260,000 to cover the design, build and installation costs of the plinth and the bandstand itself and to cover running and maintenance of the structure going forward in the early years.

The money to run the project over the last four and a half years has until now come almost entirely in the form of loans from the trustees.

Funding Sources

As with mAs with many projects of this nature we sought to raise funds in a variety of ways:

We have been successful in achieving virtually all of the money we need through two grants from MVDC and from Your Fund Surrey, and donations by benefactors: companies, organisations and individuals. We are extremely grateful to our benefactors, who are listed below.

We now need to raise a final £5000.00 for the capital build and to continue to gain sponsors for the operational costs.

If you feel you could help with any of these ideas please do contact us via the bandstand contact form.

If you would like to make a donation now, our Lloyds Bank details are:

Account name: Pandemic Community Bandstand
Account Number: 74705468
Bank sort code: 30-96-26

Thank you!

The Trustees, Pandemic Community Bandstand Charitable Incorporated Organisation

Benefactors

Below is the list of benefactors, to whom we are extremely grateful. The list is current as of 13th April 2026.

Sponsors of our concerts in the Music in Meadowbank series are to be found listed against the performers in our programme on our events page.

We are grateful to all concerned!

The trustees.