DCUK Who's Who?

The first contact would be best directed to the DCUK Office which has 24 hour telephone answering, fax and e-mail facilities. We will be only too happy to deal with your enquiry whether about membership matters, products and services from DCUK or just a general enquiry.

DCUK Board

DCUK is governed by a Management Board all of whom are elected by the membership. The Board for 2007/8 are:

Rob Swindells
Jason Oates
Chris Jones
Joe Fitzpatrick

As an organisation we are committed to ensuring that those interested in the drum corps activity get every opportunity to voice their views on how it is doing. Any member of the Board of DCUK will be delighted to talk to you but do remember that they hold their offices in a voluntary capacity and try to lead normal lives also.

The DCUK Board can contacted at
e-mail: board@dcuk.org.uk 

DCUK Vice Presidents

DCUK is proud to have four very distinguished past and present servants of the drum corps activity as its Vice Presidents. They are:
    Mr John W Garton  
    Mr Trevor Haworth  
    Mr John Boyington CBE

    Mr Joe Fitzpatrick

DCUK Fellowships

In recognition of outstanding contribution to the drum corps activity in the UK DCUK has awards Fellowships to a few special people from the activity. This is the equivalent of a Hall of Fame and only a few people are awarded this honour each year.
Current members of the DCUK Fellowship are:

1995
Chris Gibbs   for his services to the Winterguard activity in the UK
Russell Malley   for services to Judging and to the Board
Roger Steele   for services to the activity as Vice Chairman of the Board for 5 years
         

1996
Ivan Balchin   for his contribution to Judging
Bob Hewlett   for his services to drum corps in the south west and as editor of the British Drum Corps News and the 1995 & 1996 Yearbooks
         

1997
Mark Gutteridge   for his continuous contribution to DCUK activities, the DCUK Board and his leadership of Individuals/Ensembles competitions over the past years.
         

1998
Mick Moss   for his contribution to the drum corps activity over the past 45 years.
Glyn Boyington   for his services and contribution to DCUK as Treasurer over the past 7 years
         

1999
Veronica Hope   in recognition of the outstanding service given to the drum corps movement in the UK.
         

2000
Keith Mann   in recognition to his contribution and commitment to the drum corps activity in the United Kingdom
Mike Newman   for his tireless contribution to and support of both the drum corps activity as a whole and DCUK in particular.
         

2002
Diane Suett   for her contribution to judging within DCUK over the past 22 years
Ian Lyall   for his contribution and commitment to the drum corps activity through Chairman of the Judges Association and previous instructing
Alan Thompson   in recognition of his continuous contribution to both the drum corps and winterguard activity, more latterly with the development of Winter Guard United Kingdom

2004

John Swindells  for his outstanding contribution to the marching band activity - 40 years as bandmaster/corps director of Kidsgrove Scouts, 10 years as DCUK Trustee and many years helping staff both winterguard and corps finals.

2005
Douglas Caldwell   for his outstanding contribution to the marching band 
activity - contributing to various corps, to judging, and being a willing participant behind the scenes with training events and helping at contests

Anyone can nominate to the DCUK Fellowship if they believe that an individual contribution has been outstanding. To find out further details about how to nominate an individual telephone DCUK on 0845 688 8906 or e-mail admin@dcuk.org.uk.