The Cooperation Band
The Cooperation Band is a British brass band based in Glasgow. It has won the Scottish brass band championship a record 36 times, and the National Brass Band Championships of Great Britain twice.History
The band was formed in 1918 as the Co-operative Wholesale Society band, originally drawing its players from the CWS factories in Glasgow. It continued to be sponsored by the Co-operative Group, adopting a number of names relating to the group's business, most recently the Co-operative Funeralcare Band from 2009 onwards.
As CWS band, they won the National Brass Band Championships of Great Britain in 1990, and repeated the feat in 1996.
In 2018, it was announced that the Co-operative Group would stop its sponsorship, and the band's future seemed in doubt until a new sponsorship deal was arranged with Scotmid cooperative society, which brought with it a new name of "The Cooperation Band".
