About Us

We are a registered charity. Our formal name is Royal Leamington Spa Brass and the Band Factory (no. 1169205).

We are managed by our Board of Trustees, who look after the building and work to safeguard its future for the community.

Our objectives are:

1. To provide musical education and activities for the community, with particular emphasis in (but not limited to) Leamington Spa and the surrounding area.

2. To provide rehearsal, meeting, workshop and performance facilities for community groups, with a special emphasis on music and arts groups.

3. To encourage the enjoyment of music and the arts by people of all ages, both able-bodied and disabled, without distinction of sex or race.

Before the Band Factory…

Royal Spa Brass moved into the Band Factory in 2004 after our previous bandroom by the river was flooded. We have owned it ever since and now share the space with a range of other local music, art and community groups.

Before it became our bandroom, the Band Factory was a real factory - it made knickers! Althorpe Street was originally a residential street, full of terraced houses and several pubs. The Band Factory is on the site of the 'White Lion' pub, which was demolished in 1961 along with the rest of the street (you can see the pub on the far left of the photo above).

Click here to read the Leamington History Group's account of the social history of Althorpe Street!