Cooperative takes over music services

Successful music service takes on a new county

- By OWEN HUGHES Business Correspondent

A PIONEERING cooperative has been chosen to provide a new music service in schools in Conwy.

The North Wales Music Coop-erative will be launching the ser-vice in September and is already recruiting tutors to work with them.

The organisation already works in Denbighshire and Wrexham and is celebrating its 10th anniversary this year, winning a raft of major awards along the way.

The move follows a decision by Conwy County Borough Council to change to an external provider to safeguard music provision in its schools, which resulted in uncertainty for the council's peripatetic music teachers facing redundancy.

According to the cooperative’s Head of Service, Heather Powell, she knows how the teachers feel because she was in exactly the same position a decade ago.