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

[GreenTeaWhite]

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!

Signed 👍

Signed

Signed and shared.

Have shared to Twitter.

Signed.

Children need access to the performing arts.

@WearyAuldWumman
@Shiveringinthecountry
Thank you for signing as well as sharing. Very much appreciated.

Thank you to all the lovely Mumsnetters who have signed. 😊

Signed. I am another music mum and went there once with my son for a woodwind performance day. It was fabulous.
All the very best with it.

Signed. Both my DD's gained so much from their involvement in school, county orchestras and ensembles - as well as the NCO and the RNCM - practicing, rehearsing, performing together, travelling to perform - it was formative and transformative. Good luck!

Some of the children will also be our professional musicians of the future!

If we want world class musicians we need world class learning environments.

Signed - exactly 350 to go as of now... music in school changed my life.

Good luck

Signed

Signed.

Aside from being a nice thing to do, arts investment makes good economic sense too.

Signed. Good luck!

Signed . Shared on facebook and twitter.

Signed.

9,677 so far - I hope you reach your target.

Signed - one step closer to 10.000
DS1 did his first degree at RWCMD - cutting this type of resource is another example of how poorly the arts are funded across the UK.

I've sent it to him and asked him to distribute it.

9691 at the last count a minute ago.

So fed up of arts and musical activities for children being cut. Good luck with the campaign.

I have signed. I hope you get the numbers. Cutting the arts is such a short sighted and damaging thing to do.

9700 now.

OP isn't music virtually a religion in Wales?

Signer! 292 to go. Come on mnetters!!

Done
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Signed from England. It's so important that we preserve these things for the many children that might not get the opportunity otherwise

679 signatures since you posted thread @GreenTeaWhite ! 🎼

signed!