Format:	March & Hymn Contest (Separate Points)
Adjudicators:	Andrea Price
Venue:	Market Square, Darwen, Lancashire

Position	Band	Conductor	Music	Draw	March	Hymn	Total
1	Besses Boys	James Holt	March: Knight Templar	3	1	2	3
2	Mossley	Duncan Byers	March: Senator	6	2	1	3
3	Freckleton	Adam Taylor	March: The President	4	3	3	6
4	Golborne	Les Webb	March: Ravenswood	2	4	4	8
5	Eagley	Chris Wormald		1	5	5	10
6	Eccleston	John Wood	March: Bramwyn 1968	7	6	7	13
7	Hoover Bolton	Craig Mann	March: Castell Coch	5	7	6	13

Prizes - 1st £700, 2nd £400, 3rd £300.
Best soloist - principal cornet - Mossley.
Youngest player - Sophie Holt (Besses Boys)
7 bands competed

Contest originally scheduled 11th September, but postponed due to venue being used for the proclamation of King Charles III.