Collinsville High School

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• Collinsville High School
• Band Parents Meeting
• Tuesday November 13, 2007

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London New Years Day Parade

• Our band has been recognized for its superior
  performance!
• The Marching Band has been selected to
  participate in the 2008 London New Years Day
  Parade!
• It is a huge honor for our band to be selected
  from high schools around the world!
• This is an enormous accomplishment and
  recognition of our students hard work.

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• Over the last 22 years the Parade on New Years
  Day and the week long Festival of concerts and
  other performances have developed into one of the
  greatest events in the world.

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• Not only has the Parade and Festival provided
  magnificent performance opportunities for
  hundreds of groups of young Americans, but also
  the carefully constructed Performance Tour that
  is provided by the events International partner
  Youth Music for The World - has given a memorable
  and life changing educational experience to more
  than 100,000 young Americans over the history of
  the event.

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• Londons New Year Day Parade and Festival is an
  official event of the City of Westminster, and is
  supported by Her Majesty The Queen, who annually
  instructs her Lord Lieutenant for Greater London
  to represent her in the organization and
  operation of the event.

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• Londons New Years Day Parade and Festival is
  also supported by Her Majestys Government, and
  boasts the Prime Minister and the Secretary for
  Media, Culture and Sport as Patrons.

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• Other Patrons include the Lord Mayor of The City
  of Westminster, The Ambassador of the United
  States of America, The Bishop of London, and The
  Archbishop of Westminster. The event is also
  actively supported by all 31 of Londons Boroughs
  Civic Mayors.

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• The Festivals Gala Concerts and other
  performances are given in some of the most
  prestigious venues in London before packed
  audiences of dignitaries and local music lovers,
  and visitors.

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• Londons New Years Day Parade, which is now
  directly comparable in prestige to the Tournament
  of Roses, and Macys Thanksgiving Day Parade is
  performed in front of more than half a million
  people on a 2.2 mile route that includes The
  Houses of Parliament, Trafalgar Square, and
  Piccadilly Circus.

• Groups of performers and entertainers from all
  over the world take part, and the television
  program of the event is beamed via 550 television
  stations worldwide to an estimated audience of
  two hundred and twenty million people.

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Youth Music of the World Organization

• Londons New Years Day Parade and Festival works
  in exclusive partnership with the Youth Music of
  The World Organization for the creation and
  provision of the Performance Tour arrangements
  for groups appearing in the Festival.

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Not a Travel Company

• Youth Music of The World is not a travel company,
  and no travel company can offer you participation
  in Londons New Years Day Parade and Festival.

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Dedicated Staff Member

• The organization pioneered the concept of each of
  our performing groups having a dedicated member
  of our team stay with them and live each
  program with their group as a permanent, ever
  present, resource.

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A Week Long Program

• Over many years we have developed a week long
  program that gives a near perfect balance of
  performance and rehearsal time, educational
  sightseeing bus tour - time, unstructured time
  in which to plan educational and cultural visits
  of specific personal interest and some pure fun
  time.

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Transportation

• Whenever motor coach transportation is included
  in our program it is provided on luxury, modern,
  motor coaches, fully certified to the highest
  levels of industry safety and security and with
  experienced, safe and qualified drivers. Our
  motor coach providers have to submit proof of
  insurance cover to the equivalent of ten million
  dollars. Modern British motor coaches have large
  panoramic windows, state of the art sound
  systems, passenger seat belts (compulsory) and
  have effective heating and ventilation. All motor
  coaches provide a smoke free environment.

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Tour Guides

• Our guides are all fully qualified members of the
  Guild of Guide Lecturers and proudly display
  their qualification by wearing the famous Blue
  Badge. We have carefully selected all of the
  guides that we use from this elite Guild,
  choosing those guides who we feel can best relate
  to, and who can provide stimulating and
  interesting commentary for young Americans.

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Youth Music uses only the worlds best airlines,
each a major scheduled carrier, and each
operating to the highest safety criteria in the
aviation industry.
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Airline Travel

• All passengers will travel in Coach Class. On
  International trans-Atlantic flights this always
  includes at least one main meal, and one snack
  meal in each direction, complimentary soft
  drinks, and a full range of in-flight
  entertainment including movies, TV programs, and
  audio channels.

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Hotels

• The selection of accommodations is crucially
  important to the success of the Performance Tour
  program. All of our hotels are carefully selected
  and rigorously checked, at least twice a year, to
  ensure that they meet the standards and
  requirements of our traveling performance groups.

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• The Thistle Marble Arch
• The Hilton London Metropole
• The Novotel London West
• The Novotel Tower Bridge
• The Park Plaza Riverbank
• The Park Plaza Victoria

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First Class Hotels

• Students are accommodated in either two or three
  bedded rooms, while staff members, chaperones,
  and accompanying parents and supporters are
  accommodated in twin or double bedded rooms.

• All bedrooms in these Superior First Class hotels
  have the sort of facilities that you would expect
  including en suite bathrooms, television, radio,
  direct dial telephone, hairdryer, and much, much,
  more. The standard of décor is high.

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Meals - Breakfast

• Breakfast is provided every day in the groups
  hotel. It is offered in a buffet style and
  includes the following items A selection of
  fresh fruit juices, cereals, pastries and breads
  such as croissant, pain au raisin, pain au
  chocolate, brioche, bread rolls, baguette, and
  bread for toasting. Butter, low fat spread, and
  preserves are also included. There will be a
  selection of fresh and preserved fruit, as well
  as yogurts of various types. In addition there
  will be a selection of cheeses and hams to
  complete an enhanced and substantial Continental
  Breakfast. Hot beverages of tea, coffee, and hot
  chocolate will be available, as will hot and cold
  milk.

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Meals - Dinners

• The program includes two dinners to be taken in
  the hotel, one of which we recommend should
  always be taken on the day of arrival in London.
  The meals in the hotel will generally be served
  buffet style and will consist of two courses, an
  entrée and a dessert, with a salad available as a
  side dish. A considerable range of menu choice
  will be given to allow group leaders to select
  the most suitable menus for their groups.

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To ensure that a main meal can be enjoyed every
day as part of the program, four sets of vouchers
which can be used at a vast range of restaurants
in London, including many of the popular fast
food or express dining restaurants that are
popular with North American students. We
guarantee that there will be a considerable
number of restaurants within a few moments walk
of the hotel that will accept the vouchers. The
hotels themselves also accept the vouchers. By
using the voucher scheme we have found that we
can give todays North American students exactly
what they want, providing unrivalled choice in
type of food and style of service. We have
found vouchers to be infinitely more satisfying
than offering a set menu for every dinner, and
finding that a high percentage of students do not
care for that with which they are presented.
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The Parade Route

• The New Years Day Parade London, will begin
  the 2.2-mile Parade route underneath Big Ben
  and the Palace of Westminster, marching up
  Whitehall past the Cenotaph and Downing Street,
  entering Trafalgar Square below Nelsons Column.

• They will continue along Cockspur Street and Pall
  Mall before turning into Waterloo Place and
  marching up Lower Regent Street. At Piccadilly
  Circus they will turn left into Piccadilly and
  march past the VIP grandstands in which all of
  Londons Mayors will be seated. Here there will
  be a stop and performance requirement for TV
  cameras.

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Parade Route

• The Ritz Hotel marks the Parade route end where
  the procession makes a right turn into Berkeley
  Street before dispersing in Berkeley Square.

• All Parade performing groups receive motor coach
  transportation to and from the Parade assembly
  and dispersal areas.

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Educational Tour

• Full day educational tour of Londons historic
  West End and City, and then a choice between
  Windsor, Hampton Court or Greenwich.
• The tour will be conducted on a luxury motor coach

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Additional Educational Tour

• Tour to City of Oxford with a special visit to
  one of the Universitys Colleges, and then to
  Stratford upon Avon, birthplace to William
  Shakespeare.

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Theatrical Performance

• Tickets to an evening performance of a West End
  Theatrical Production or Concert.
• A selection of comedy, drama and musical
  productions.

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New Years Eve Celebration

• A student oriented celebration at the hotel.
• The party will take place in a private room at
  the hotel, with a professional disco and cash
  only soft drink and snack bar provided

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Other inclusions

• Specially arranged carriage of all musical
  instruments from airport to hotel
• A specially struck New Years Day Parade Festival
  Medal for all performers

• One year membership in Youth Music International
  Performers Club
• Comprehensive travel insurance policy
• Tips and Taxes to all service providers

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Offer of Performance Tour

• Departure from St. Louis Airport on Saturday
  December 27, 2008.
• Return to St. Louis on Saturday January 3, 2009

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Cost

• 2525 per student

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Logistics

• 3 areas of concentration for fund raising
• Student/Parent fundraising - 76,250
• Corporate Sponsorship - 38,125
• Alumni Sponsorship/Support - 38,125
• Student/Parent Contribution - 1,000 per student

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We need everyones help

• We need everyones ideas and connections
• Put on your thinking cap
• Lets be creative, but lets be smart
• Looking for ideas with a good ROI

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Different areas

• Alumni
• Corporate Sponsorship
• Fundraising
• Communication phone calls, web site, etc

• Media Television, newspaper, radio, etc
• Community Support
• Correspondence Governmental, English
  Ambassador, Grants, etc

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Band Bucks for Britain

• Involve the entire Collinsville/Maryville
  community
• Collect a buck from every resident within the
  community
• Potential income - 30,000

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Corporate Sponsorship

• Platinum Level
• gt 10,000
• Gold Level
• 5,000 - 9,999
• Silver Level
• 2,500 - 4,999
• Bronze Level
• 100 - 2,499

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Alumni Support

• Conductor Level
• gt 1,000
• Director Level
• 500 - 999
• Performance Level
• 100 - 499
• Participant Level
• 1 - 99

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Sign up/Support Sheet

• Name
• Students Name
• Grade
• Instrument
• E-mail Address
• Contact information