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900 more signatures needed in a week, please HELP save the Junior Department at the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama!

120 replies

GreenTeaWhite · 13/06/2024 13:26

First of all, thank you for clicking through to read more and help. 💐

https://petitions.senedd.wales/petitions/246232

Part way through the summer term, the Senior Management Team at the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama (RWCMD) made a shocking announcement - they were proposing to close the Junior Department at the end of this term. Over three hundred children are struggling to come to terms with this decision.

My DC are musicians and they face an end to all the relationships they have built with their instrumental music teachers and their peers. They will lose the opportunity to make music with others in the form of chamber groups and symphony orchestra. Music for them is everything, they love spending their Saturdays at the Junior Conservatoire with likeminded children.

In order just to have the issue discussed by the Welsh Parliament, the Senedd, the petition needs 10,000 signatures. They've just announced that the petition will close on 19th June, so we have just a week to gain another 900 signatures or so.

I have recently posted this on another thread, where some Mumsnetters kindly supported the petition, but with just a week to go until the petition deadline, I'm posting in AIBU to gain traffic.

Please support the next generation of musicians, actors and actresses in Wales and the the surrounding areas:
https://petitions.senedd.wales/petitions/246232

Thank you so much!

Petition: Protect the junior departments of the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama from closure

The Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama has provided a junior music and acting programme to students aged from 4 to 18 for the past 25 years. The school currently sees around 300 talented young people through its doors each weekend, and many of thos...

https://petitions.senedd.wales/petitions/246232

OP posts:
Swissrollover · 13/06/2024 13:29

Signed. Good luck!

marigold1593 · 13/06/2024 13:36

Signed Smile

SirVixofVixHall · 13/06/2024 13:41

Signed.

Tcateh · 13/06/2024 13:42

Signed

Abitofalark · 13/06/2024 14:07

You may not know there's a petitions section of mumsnet where you are supposed to post petitions.

jackstini · 13/06/2024 14:24

Signed - this is so important for kids!

AgentProvocateur · 13/06/2024 14:33

That’s a terrible decision. My DC got so much out of their junior conservatoire classes (not in wales). Good luck with your petition.

LlynTegid · 13/06/2024 14:46

I've signed it.

I have professional musicians in the family, want to see musicians supported.

MarilynSays · 13/06/2024 14:48

signed :-) good luck

Fishlegs · 13/06/2024 14:50

Signed

ClaudiaWinklepanda · 13/06/2024 14:54

What are you hoping for, OP, that more money will come from the Senedd to RWCMD to continue to run the junior school? Who funds it at the moment?
Arts education is so important, future generations of creatives are caught in an awful funding crisis and a general lack of respect for creative careers.
Is Michael Sheen aware of what's going on? He is a powerful voice for involvement in the arts in Wales.

GreenTeaWhite · 13/06/2024 18:01

Thank you so much to those who've signed so far!

OP posts:
SereneHighnessPrincessTheresa · 13/06/2024 18:14

Signed

Elleherd · 13/06/2024 18:15

Signed. (no conformation email yet)

ItsNotAShopItsAStore · 13/06/2024 18:16

Signer! Thanks for flagging OP

Everyone make sure they click the link in their email

easylikeasundaymorn · 13/06/2024 18:23

signed/email clicked
pob lwc1!

Elleherd · 13/06/2024 18:24

(have also added it to a creatives network)

growinganotherhead · 13/06/2024 18:27

Signed, best wishes.

IdrisElbow · 13/06/2024 18:28

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GU24Mum · 13/06/2024 18:30

Me too. Fingers crossed.

Superhotpoet · 13/06/2024 18:33

Signed, good luck

Songlines · 13/06/2024 18:36

Signed, good luck

Allofaflutter · 13/06/2024 18:39

Signed

JackieGoodman · 13/06/2024 18:42

done

IsItGingerism · 13/06/2024 18:42

Done, good luck.

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