Southwark Update January 2022

6th January 2022

“Dear Parents and Carers

Happy New Year!

I thought the children and young people were magnificent in the Christmas concert; many congratulations to them again.

We have a busy year ahead of us and I will be sending out news of various exciting events over the next few weeks. It is essential that we have your correct contact details so please don’t forget to let us know if you change your phone numbers, email or address. We are hoping to move away from WhatsApp this year towards email as our preferred method of contact. Please could you make sure we have your latest email address; you can either bring it in typed on a piece of paper or email me at richard@musiccentrelondon.com. Remember that the latest letters will always be posted up on the website www.musiccentrelondon.com

We’re looking forward to seeing you all on Sunday 9th January at the same times as last term. If you need a reminder of your time just email me at richard@musiccentrelondon.com and I’ll let you know immediately.

Dates for the term:

January 9, 16, 23, 30;  February 6, 27;  March 6, 13, 20, 27.

An apology

As you know, we had hoped to be all set up for bank transfers this term. I can assure you it’s not been for want of trying! In order to make these changes you have to complete online mandates and wait to hear from the bank. There are a number of changes we want to make to our accounts, including a change of signatory, which has to be done first (otherwise we’ll run out of cheques). It is now 6 weeks since I completed the mandate and sent it off and it is impossible to speak to anyone. The record for waiting in line on the phone is 2 hours and 45 minutes! I’ve also tried speaking to a human at the local branch and they just refer you online, which I’ve already tried. Many apologies. I’m not giving up! If anyone knows of a bank that actually does stuff, please let me know. So it’s cheques and cash again I’m afraid. Maybe next term….

Interviews

I’m working out the schedule now and will let you now how it’s going to work next week.

See you on Sunday. Can’t wait.

Kind regards

Richard”