Band of Hope

Band of Hope was a Christian temperance movement started in Leeds in 1847. It sought to change the cultural impact of alcohol in British society in order to stop alcohol abuse through encouraging children to avoid bars. It currently survives as Hope UK.

In Normanton
Normanton is known to have been the site of Band of Hope marches. In August 1885, 1,418 people are recorded as having taken part in the local demonstrations, with marches having come from the Normanton, Altofts, Hoptown, Streethouse and New Sharleston Primitive Methodists; the Normanton and Streethouse Congregationalists; the Normanton Baptists; the Altofts, Altofts Common and Whitwood Wesleyans, the Hopetown Free Churchgoers. Normanton Church (Now 'All Saints') was criticised for its lack of support for the demonstration.