Keith,
Hi and congrats to your Joe on his new job.

EFDSS coming out into the provinces. Steve Roud of EFDSS recently took a full day's presentation on the history of folk song, using The Full English, to various venues around the country and 2 of them were in Yorkshire! Also Take 6 promoted educational projects around the country employing folk artistes. Pete Coe was one of them. One of their current education officers is Gav Davenport (a very able songwriter, Bert)

Some of the country's top festivals were initiated by EFDSS and at one time the whole country was represented by regional EFDSS organisers. In more recent times this has proven not financially viable.

C#H is very expensive to maintain and most of its income comes from lettings, not always to folk events. Anyone can hire its facilities. Last year I listened to some operatic auditions whilst waiting for the library to open. It might have at one time been perceived as a private club for Playford Dancers, but not so today. Have a look at the events on the website.