Community and social initiatives

We are committed to delivering social and community initiatives with local and national partners. As an RBC student you will have access to quality training in music for social purpose and community engagement. Students are encouraged to think more broadly about their music and how it might impact on others around them, making them some of the most valuable graduate employees.

Students performing Your Love Lifts Me Up community project

As an institution which cares about the local and national community, we encourage our students to engage with the world around them. Over the past few years we have worked with a number of community partners to create extra musical opportunities for communities and RBC students.

Your Love Lifts Me Up’ was a community chorus project, supported by the commonwealth games supported collaborative project with Cedar Church, Longwill School for the Deaf, Deaf Explorer, Watoto Children’s Choir from Uganda and various schools from across the West Midlands. The project celebrated the importance of British Sign Language (BSL) as a major language in Birmingham and across the world.

Our partnership with the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust continues to flourish and in January 2025 we are working alongside Autin Dance Theatre, RBC Production Department (Costumes) and the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust to create a child lead fashion show and multi arts performance based on female characters from Shakespeare plays.

In 2021, the RBC supported vocal group from CORE Education Trust, COREus, recorded Lift Every Voice, to release as a charity single to raise money for homeless charity Shelter. In 2025 we will release Home, written by Peter Daley, and recorded by COREus, SoundLab-BRUM, Garnteg Primary School, Soul’d As Seen community choir and RBC Young Singers to raise further funds for Shelter.

What are we gonna do for Christmas’ is a song written by Alan Stott and featured jazz students from RBC with the children chorus from Haslucks Green Primary School. Sung by Michelle Lawson and Simon Dorey the song made it to Number 1 in the itunes jazz chart in December 2016. The project has so far raised over £3100 for Alzheimer’s Society.

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Opportunities for RBC students

At RBC, we ensure all our students to have the opportunity to explore a wide range of activities which could feature in successful future portfolio career. Many students who engage with the L&P programme go on to have successful teaching, community and social work as part of their musical careers.

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Pathways for young musicians

At RBC, we believe all young people should have access to high quality music provision and to be able to progress in their musical journeys if they wish to. To that end, we run a number of programme designed to provide opportunities for young musicians.

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Education partnerships

Our education partnerships aim to support the music education sector in a variety of ways as well as providing opportunities for our students. As well as training music educators of the future, RBC works with education partners to provide continuing professional development opportunities for their staff.

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