In March 1971 at the request of the local residents contacted during self denial collecting, the band journeyed into the New Forest and conducted a series of openair meetings in the Lymington area, where army activities had ceased some 20 years before.

Several weekend campaigns were undertaken with Bandmaster Cook including visits to Oxford, Bath, Margate, Stotfold, Folkestone, Regent Hall, Bristol Citadel, Torquay, Hove, Bradford, Ipswich, Woodbridge, Sittingbourne and Thornton Heath.

At Woodbridge the restrictions imposed by a small building led to the Band sitting in the body of the hall, whilst the congregation sat on the platform! The visit to Hove in October 1968 could have ended disastrously as the band coach suffered a brake failure on the homeward journey and ran into a ditch near Arundel. Rather than risk continuing the journey in the same coach, the bandsmen waited some considerable time before a replacement coach was provided. Leadership of these campaigns was often provided by retired officers from Boscombe, notably Commissioner Arch Wiggins and Colonel Ivy Mawby.

Soloists regularly featured by Bandmaster Cook included Maurice Brotheridge, Doug Lawrence and Glyn Bosanko (cornet), Robin Andrews (trombone), David Wilkinson (bass trombone), Chris Parker and former ISB member Josh Walford (Euphonium). Norman Cutler continued to add variety to the band programmes with his monologues,whilst Glyn Bosanko provided the occasional piano solo.