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.
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.