Amateur Sports Club Consulation

PRS for Music is holding a customer consultation on the charges and other terms of its licences for non-profit-making amateur sports clubs. You are invited to participate and PRS for Music welcome your views.

Please note that the consultation may result in changes to your charges and you are advised to review the document in full. PRS for Music will review all responses received by 2nd March 2012.

They have consulted with the Sport and Recreation Alliance about the proposed changes, and its representative bodies have also been invited to join in the consultation. We at the EIBA Ltd will be writing to all Clubs regarding this Consultation.

For more information Read this Public Performance Customer Consultation document

To Complete the Amateur Sports Club Consultation response form on-line click here

To Complete the Amateur Sports Club Consultation response form by hand download here

If you would like to register for email updates, please send your email address to customer.consultation@prsformusic.com with ‘Email Updates ASC’ as the subject heading.

If you have any further questions, please do not hesitate to contact us on 0207 598 3666 or customer.consultation@prsformusic.com.

Music Licensing Consultations

In our 2011 review of bureaucracy in 2011- Red Card to Red Tape, many clubs were concerned about the fees paid for licensing. Clubs are already operating in a challenging financial climate, with an average annual surplus of just over £1000. It is vitally important that these fees do not make a difficult situation worse.

Sport Recreation Alliance have worked hard in this area in 2011 and now is the time for you to have your say! If members, clubs and facilities can respond to these consultations on music licensing it could really make a difference.

New proposed PRS music tariff

The average PRS music tariff for a sports club is £320. Sport Recreation Alliance have worked with PRS to negotiate a better deal for sports clubs. The minimum fee will drop from £91 to £42 and normal tariffs will be capped at £250. But will the proposals work for you?

It’s really important to get good feedback from clubs and check everything adds up; if it doesn’t we need to tell PRS now! Find out more details on how you can respond.

Government proposals to hold collecting societies to account

A charge levelled at collecting societies is that they are legal monopolies which cannot be held to account. The Government is looking to change this and ensure that collecting societies operate to minimum standards.

Sport Recreation Alliance need your support to show that, not only do collecting societies need minimum standards, but that community buildings and sports and recreation clubs should be explicitly included in the guidelines. The consultation is 114 questions long- we have created a guide to answering just 5 key questions which would help support community sports clubs.

Please support the fight to get community sports and recreation clubs a better deal!