Wantage Silver Band is a registered charity dedicated to music education through practice and performance, with over 150 members and eight bands of different abilities. Its A Band competes in the Championship Section of the National Brass Band Championships of Great Britain.
The other bands include Concert Brass, a Youth Band, an Adult Beginners Band, a Trainer Band and Beginners Bands, giving brass players and percussionists a route from first notes upwards. Rehearsals are at the band hall at Tugwell Field on Reading Road, bands can be booked for events, and an annual festival weekend is held in October.
