Stigweard, don't you ever listen to professional singers of traditional songs - do you ever wonder where they get their material, directly or indirectly? Nowhere else in this country is there such a collection as exists in the Library at Cecil Sharp House, and in storage there, even though at present difficult to get at.

I'm not on the National Council nor on the 'inside' these days, so I've no idea about lottery funding. Perhaps what they could do with is a fundraiser who's paid according to results, which I believe is not uncommon in the Arts world. They did get £50,000, I think, through The People's Millions on TV, but it was specifically to spruce up the outside, I believe, rather than to go into the Society's general coffers.

Barbara