During 2022/23 The Britannia Coconut Dancers have been holding meetings regarding the arrangement of our Easter Saturday Boundary Procession. We now feel it’s important to provide an update to our followers and the community.

Our discussions with Rossendale Borough Council, Lancashire County Council & Police are to seek a way of future proofing our Traditional Easter Boundary Procession, a very unique day in the folk calendar hopefully for years to come and beyond. We are working very hard to find a sustainable way of providing the safest possible option for the day at the most reasonable cost. We are seeing these costs increasing annually and we feel this should not become a burden for the team or the community and so our discussions continue with the authorities but sadly in recent years what was never a burden is now just that so with this in mind the team continues to work towards a solution however the local authorities continue to state they are unable to offer any assistance, whilst consideration has been given to all aspects including the safety of the dancers, musicians, marshals & the public as always what is at the forefront of the day is the costing’s imposed on the team for their Boundary Procession.

In years past there has not been any issues of burden of the current situation yet we as a team are still trying to work towards a workable solution however the local authorities continue to state they are unable to offer any assistance currently to date.

We will of course update you of any progress in due course.

Thank you all for your continued support.