The English and Welsh national brass band gradings are determined by each band's results at the regional championships over a three year period. At the end of each year, the bands with the two lowest aggregate scores in each section are promoted and the bands with the two highest aggregate scores are relegated. The winners of the lower section finals also get promoted.
The Scottish Brass Band Association uses a different grading system where the winners of each lower section automatically get promoted and a combined score over two years is used to decide the other promotion place and two relegation places.
These are our estimates of the grading tables following recent contests, not the official tables! Promotions and relegations won't be official until confirmed by the relevant regional committee.
Band | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | Points | Promotion/Relegation |
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Band | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | Pnts | Prom/Rele |
Zone One Brass | 5 | 1 | 1 | 7 | |
Friary Guildford | 3 | 2 | 2 | 7 | |
Redbridge Brass | 2 | 5 | 3 | 10 | |
East London Brass | 6 | 3 | 5 | 14 | |
Amersham | 4 | 4 | 6 | 14 | |
Wantage Silver 'A' | 8 | 7 | 4 | 19 | |
Haverhill | 1 | 9 | 10 | 20 | |
Sandhurst Silver | 6.5 p | 6 | 8 | 20.5 | |
Fulham | 7 | 10 | 7 | 24 | |
Medway | 6.5 p | 6.5 p | 11 | 24 | |
Egham | 6.5 p | 6.5 p | 12 | 25 | Relegated |
East of England Co-op | 6.5 p | 12 | 9 | 27.5 | Relegated |
Number of bands | 12 | 12 | 12 | ||
Average grading | 6.5 | 6.5 | 6.5 |
p = average grading after promotion, r = average grading after relegation, nb = average grading for new band, a = absent, d = disqualified
Band | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | Points | Promotion/Relegation |
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Band | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | Pnts | Prom/Rele |
Milton Keynes Brass | 3 | 8 | 3 | 14 | Promoted |
Hitchin Town | 8 r | 1 | 8 | 17 | Promoted |
Kidlington Concert Brass | 8 r | 8 r | 2 | 18 | |
Aveley & Newham | 8 r | 4 | 6 | 18 | |
Regent Brass | 9 | 3 | 7 | 19 | |
Thundersley Brass | 8 r | 8 r | 4 | 20 | |
Bedford Town | 8 p | 9 | 5 | 22 | |
Cawston | 5 | 6 | 12 | 23 | |
Horsham Borough | 13 | 11 | 1 | 25 | |
Epsom & Ewell Silver | 8 p | 8 p | 10 | 26 | |
City of Norwich | 8 p | 8 p | 13 | 29 | |
Soham Comrades | 6 | 10 | 14 | 30 | |
Wantage Concert Brass | 8 p | 15 | 9 | 32 | |
Grimsdyke Brass | 10 | 12 | 11 | 33 | Relegated |
Jersey Premier Brass | 15 | 5 | 15 | 35 | Relegated |
Number of bands | 15 | 15 | 15 | ||
Average grading | 8 | 8 | 8 |
p = average grading after promotion, r = average grading after relegation, nb = average grading for new band, a = absent, d = disqualified
Band | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | Points | Promotion/Relegation |
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Band | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | Pnts | Prom/Rele |
St Sebastian Wokingham | 6 | 6 | 1 | 13 | Promoted |
Tilbury | 2 | 12 | 3 | 17 | Promoted |
Chinnor Silver | 11 | 2 | 4 | 17 | |
City of Cambridge | 8 | 8 | 2 | 18 | |
Alder Valley Brass | 9 r | 1 | 11 | 21 | |
Waterbeach | 4 | 10 | 8 | 22 | |
L.G.B. Brass | 9 r | 9 r | 5 | 23 | |
Staines Brass | 9 r | 9 r | 6 | 24 | |
Chiltern Hills Brass | 9 r | 3 | 12 | 24 | |
Tendring Brass | 9 | 11 | 7 | 27 | |
Ware Brass | 7 | 9 | 14 | 30 | |
Olney Town | 9 p | 5 | 16 | 30 | |
Fairlop Brass | 9 p | 9 p | 15 | 33 | |
BAE Systems | 12 | 15 | 9 | 36 | |
Oxford Cherwell Brass | 13 | 13 | 10 | 36 | |
Simon Langton Brass | 9 p | 9 p | 18 | 36 | |
Epping Forest | 16 | 14 | 13 | 43 | Relegated |
Chichester City | 9 p | 17 | 17 | 43 | Relegated |
Number of bands | 17 | 17 | 18 | ||
Average grading | 9 | 9 | 9.5 |
p = average grading after promotion, r = average grading after relegation, nb = average grading for new band, a = absent, d = disqualified
Band | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | Points | Promotion/Relegation |
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Band | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | Pnts | Prom/Rele |
Welwyn Garden City | 7 | 4 | 3 | 14 | Promoted |
Amersham Concert Brass | 9 nb | 5 | 2 | 16 | Promoted |
Bradwell Silver | 1 | 6 | 12 | 19 | |
Putney & Wimbledon | 9 p | 9.5 p | 1 | 19.5 | |
Hangleton | 9 p | 8 | 4 | 21 | |
Hemel Hempstead | 9 p | 7 | 5 | 21 | |
Littleport Brass | 9 | 10 | 6 | 25 | |
Yiewsley & West Drayton | 9 r | 9.5 r | 7 | 25.5 | |
Hungerford | 15 | 2 | 9 | 26 | |
Cold Ash Brass | 9 r | 11 | 8 | 28 | |
Jubilee Brass (Oxford) | 6 | 13 | 11 | 30 | |
Crystal Palace | 5 | 17 | 10 | 32 | |
Tadley Concert Brass | 9 p | 9.5 p | 14 | 32.5 | |
Great Yarmouth Brass | 10 | 14 | 13 | 37 | |
Regent Community Brass | 13 | 9 | 16 | 38 | |
Castleton | 9 r | 16 | 17 a | 42 | Relegated |
Brighton & Hove City Brass | 16 | 12 | 15 | 43 | Relegated |
Number of bands | 17 | 18 | 16 | ||
Average grading | 9 | 9.5 | 8.5 |
p = average grading after promotion, r = average grading after relegation, nb = average grading for new band, a = absent, d = disqualified
Band | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | Points | Promotion/Relegation |
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Band | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | Pnts | Prom/Rele |
Watford | 7 | 3 | 3 | 13 | Promoted |
Betteshanger Colliery | 6.5 nb | 8 nb | 1 | 15.5 | Promoted |
Reading Spring Gardens | 6.5 r | 8 r | 2 | 16.5 | |
Godalming | 6.5 r | 6 | 4 | 16.5 | |
Dereham | 6.5 nb | 8 nb | 5 | 19.5 | |
Abbey Brass (Abingdon) | 3 | 11 | 9 | 23 | |
Royston Town | 4 | 9 | 10 | 23 | |
Wantage Academy Brass | 6 | 5 | 13 | 24 | |
Letchworth Garden City | 13 a | 4 | 8 | 25 | |
Cottenham | 6.5 r | 8 r | 11 | 25.5 | |
Witney Town | 10 | 12 | 7 | 29 | |
City of Oxford Silver | 13 a | 13 | 6 | 32 | |
Woodbridge Excelsior | 8 | 10 | 14 | 32 | |
Pangbourne and District Silver | 11 | 7 | 15 | 33 | |
Hadstock | 9 | 8 | 17 | 34 | |
Norfolk Wherry Brass | 13 a | 15 | 12 | 40 | |
Patcham Silver | 12 | 14 | 16 | 42 | |
Number of bands | 12 | 15 | 17 | ||
Average grading | 6.5 | 8 | 9 |
p = average grading after promotion, r = average grading after relegation, nb = average grading for new band, a = absent, d = disqualified