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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:
Therunecaster · 14/06/2024 07:18

Signed and shared

devildeepbluesea · 14/06/2024 07:20

Signed!

friskybivalves · 14/06/2024 07:26

Signed and confirmed ✔️

doneandone · 14/06/2024 07:27

Signed

MmedeGouge · 14/06/2024 07:29

Signed.

AnthuriumCrystallinum · 14/06/2024 07:30

Only 263 to go!

pinkgin79 · 14/06/2024 07:30

Signed

Grasshopper15 · 14/06/2024 07:31

Signed!

StoatofDisarray · 14/06/2024 07:32

Signed! Hope they don't mind that I'm in England. Good luck!

VariousVeins · 14/06/2024 07:33

Signed good luck!

friskybivalves · 14/06/2024 07:34

It might also be worth alerting [email protected]

About the whole saga as he might cover it on his slippeddisc.com website about performing arts news and gossip. He wrote about the [ultimately doomed] campaign to save the St Johns Voices mixed choir in Cambridge which attracted great support from across the arts and some appalling publicity for the college. They are a private entity but with this being a state funded institution, shining the spotlight might help!

Yiayoula · 14/06/2024 07:40

Signed, and confirmed .
Wishing you all the very best ! 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿

JulesJules · 14/06/2024 07:48

Signed and shared, good luck

ChopstickNovice · 14/06/2024 07:49

Signed!

Candleabra · 14/06/2024 07:53

Signed. Good luck.

AutumnCrow · 14/06/2024 08:02

The number count is slowly but steadily rising, and it’s achievable now, OP.

GreenTeaWhite · 14/06/2024 08:02

friskybivalves · 14/06/2024 07:34

It might also be worth alerting [email protected]

About the whole saga as he might cover it on his slippeddisc.com website about performing arts news and gossip. He wrote about the [ultimately doomed] campaign to save the St Johns Voices mixed choir in Cambridge which attracted great support from across the arts and some appalling publicity for the college. They are a private entity but with this being a state funded institution, shining the spotlight might help!

Thank you for the suggestion, @friskybivalves .

The magazine did write a short article about it shortly after the proposed closure was announced.
https://slippedisc.com/2024/05/wales-fails-music/

OP posts:
GreenTeaWhite · 14/06/2024 08:04

AutumnCrow · 14/06/2024 08:02

The number count is slowly but steadily rising, and it’s achievable now, OP.

Yes, I really hope so! Loving the power of Mumsnet. 😊Thank you for the support, Mumsnetters!

OP posts:
GreenTeaWhite · 14/06/2024 08:13

@Grumpyoldpersonwithcats Thank you so much for signing as well as asking your son to share the petition.

OP posts:
ClaudiaWinklepanda · 14/06/2024 08:18

I’ve seen it on Twitter, OP, hopefully traction is building.

Bogeyes · 14/06/2024 08:39

Signed...good luck.

kittybiscuits · 14/06/2024 08:42

Signed and confirmed. 201 to go

VisitationRights · 14/06/2024 08:45

I have signed. I don’t think the Sennedd should fund them in this instance but maybe pressure can be applied for the College to better use their existing budget.

Pebble21uk · 14/06/2024 09:15

Signed. I did a Postgrad in Stage Management at RWCMD (just WCMD in those days) in the 90s. It was only because of funding that I was able to go.

5475878237NC · 14/06/2024 09:18

Done. Best of luck.

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