The Live Music Forum
Hamish Birchall Bulletin
Tuesday 11th July 2006 - Licensing: Henley Regatta ball cancelled
The Henley Regatta charity fund-raising ball of 30 June, for which tickets were fetching £800, was cancelled due to licensing problems. See this Daily Telegraph report of 1st July:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/opinion/main.jhtml?xml=/opinion/2006/07/01/dp0101.xml
Under the old entertainment licensing regime private events that put on live music to help raise money for charity were exempt. This point was not taken up in the article. A recent book by lawyers about the Licensing Act comments on the new requirement to require the licensing of such events:
'Where there is "charitable" provision and members of the public are admitted, this is a licensable activity irrespective of the "profit" issue, but extending it beyond this to encompass private provision seems to take regulatory control too far.'
['Alcohol and Entertainment Licensing Law', Cavendish 2005, Colin Manchester - Susanna Poppleston - Jeremy Allen ]
Hamish Birchall
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