It’s time for another push as we approach the next milestone with this petition as it approaches 150,000 signatures.
Keep sharing!
keep sharing the petition but also keep sharing the articles in the national press concerning this issue. The more awareness we share the more likely we are to reach our next milestone of signatures!
Complain to the BBC directly!
There is a link at the bottom of this email to help you do this. You will also see that many other people have already done the same and it keeps the pressure up on the BBC, letting them know that this issue is not going away.
Write to your MP!
Again, use the link at the bottom of this email to use a letter template to send a letter to your MP. As You will read below, there are reports that this issue was discussed at Rushi Sunak’s Cabinet meeting yesterday and senior government ministers support our campaign! Please continue to write to your MPs!
Latest press articles
The campaign to save the BBC Singers has been backed at Rishi Sunak’s Cabinet, the Telegraph can reveal....
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2023/03/21/cabinet-backs-campaign-save-bbc-singers/
The BBC could put coronation concert plans at risk by pursuing cuts against its in-house choir
200 choirs from around the world cry out in support for BBC Singers
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/bbc-choir-singers-choirmaster-cdt9zndn9
BBC Singers discussed on BBC’s Newsnight - Jacob Collier publicly supports campaign to save BBC singers on national television. https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m001kc0z37.36
Over 18,000 complain to BBC re BBC Singers
https://twitter.com/deborahannetts/status/1638496146745184259?s=46&t=sYdV-Y6YFOCc8eGY1ZKWzg
Julian Lloyd Webber in the Radio Times
https://twitter.com/jlloydwebber/status/1638090011701542914?s=46&t=sYdV-Y6YFOCc8eGY1ZKWzg
Article in Choir and Organ - Interview with BBC Singers Chief Conductor Sofi Jeannin and David Hill https://www.rhinegold.co.uk/choir_organ/sofi-jeannin-interviewed-by-david-hill/
Letters to BBC
Letter from all 15 European radio choir chief conductors https://twitter.com/benjamin_gdsn/status/1638431359105417217?s=46&t=sYdV-Y6YFOCc8eGY1ZKWzg
Letter from over 229 UK Amateur choirs (18,290 individual choir members) https://twitter.com/wimbledonchoral/status/1638103785024225280?s=46&t=sYdV-Y6YFOCc8eGY1ZKWzg
Feeling inspired?
Here is a guide on how to take action and what the next steps should be
https://www.ism.org/news/take-action-against-bbc-cuts-to-classical-music
Keep up the pressure everyone!
Jack Apperley