Govanhill's Big Noise

The motion

That the Parliament welcomes the proposal for a Sistema Scotland Big Noise Centre to be established in the Govanhill community, with plans to start tutoring music to 380 nursery and primary one and two pupils by 2013; understands that Big Noise is an orchestra programme based in deprived areas that aims to foster confidence, self-discipline, teamwork and aspiration in children through learning music and performing in an orchestra; commends the work of the Big Noise project in the Raploch community, where 450 children are now learning to play an instrument, accounting for 75% of all children in the area of primary school age; further understands that when Big Noise began working in the Raploch community in 2008 there was only one child in the community of 3,000 people learning to play an instrument; highlights that a survey of parents and carers in Raploch found that 100% of those questioned thought that the children involved were more confident and 93% thought that their children were happier; applauds the 180 children from Big Noise Raploch for performing alongside the Simón Bolívar Symphony Orchestra at Stirling’s London 2012 official Olympic opening event in June 2012; hopes that similar achievements can be made in Govanhill, where there is an issue of multiple deprivation; understands that the Big Noise Govanhill project hopes to have more than 700 children from Govanhill playing in a full symphonic orchestra by 2015-16; notes the support for the project from the Govanhill Housing Association, the Govanhill Community Development Trust and from Glasgow City Council, and highlights that Big Noise is based on the social regeneration methods practised by Venezuela’s El Sistema movement, which has been working with street children since 1975 and helped produce one of the world’s famous conductors, Gustavo Dudamel.

No recorded vote on this motion. Most motions are never debated, and many that are debated are agreed without a division. Vote records are published from 2011.

Lab 11 SNP 5 LD 1

Party shown is each supporter’s party when the motion was published.

No contribution in the Official Report cites S4M-04278 by reference.