A weekend devoted to brass banding and fellowship with other Salvationists from Australia and New Zealand? Nothing sounds more Salvo, which is why the Future Brass Conference went off with a bang at Rutherford Park, Victoria, last month.

When John Collinson began Just Brass in 2010 at the corps, located in Geelong’s southern suburbs, it was a humble idea – give children the ability to play an instrument and you also provide them with a new social group that supplies the values, skills and qualities they need to flourish in life.