Torquay United exhibition at Torquay Musuem
Posted: 21 Jul 2014, 15:42
As many of you may already be aware, Torquay Museum and Brixham Heritage Museum are facing devastating cuts of 42% in their grant from Torbay Council for 2015/16, as recently announced in their latest £14m Savings Proposals.
Although we sympathise with the difficult financial choices that Torbay Council has to make in the coming years, their proposed cut to Torquay Museum’s grant will have a dramatic negative effect on the Museum. There is a real possibility that Torquay Museum will be forced to close its doors next year after 170 years in existence, which would be an enormous cultural loss to the English Riviera’s residents and holidaymakers and mean that the TUFC Exhibition might not happen!
We urgently need your help to keep our museums alive. The whole package of proposed Torbay Council budget cuts is currently undergoing a consultation process, so this is your chance to tell the Council how much our museums mean to you and the people of Torbay. If there is a large groundswell of opinion against these cuts, then there is a chance that the Council will reverse their decision – but we need your help now, please.
To register your opposition to Torbay Council’s proposed cuts to Torquay Museum and Brixham Heritage Museum, please follow this link to the Museums Grant Consultation Questionnaire http://www.torbay.gov.uk/surveys/budget ... sgrant.htm The questionnaires are also available in paper format from both museums, and also libraries throughout Torbay.
If you have a Facebook page, please make your friends aware of the plight of our museums and enlist their support. Thank you.
Although we sympathise with the difficult financial choices that Torbay Council has to make in the coming years, their proposed cut to Torquay Museum’s grant will have a dramatic negative effect on the Museum. There is a real possibility that Torquay Museum will be forced to close its doors next year after 170 years in existence, which would be an enormous cultural loss to the English Riviera’s residents and holidaymakers and mean that the TUFC Exhibition might not happen!
We urgently need your help to keep our museums alive. The whole package of proposed Torbay Council budget cuts is currently undergoing a consultation process, so this is your chance to tell the Council how much our museums mean to you and the people of Torbay. If there is a large groundswell of opinion against these cuts, then there is a chance that the Council will reverse their decision – but we need your help now, please.
To register your opposition to Torbay Council’s proposed cuts to Torquay Museum and Brixham Heritage Museum, please follow this link to the Museums Grant Consultation Questionnaire http://www.torbay.gov.uk/surveys/budget ... sgrant.htm The questionnaires are also available in paper format from both museums, and also libraries throughout Torbay.
If you have a Facebook page, please make your friends aware of the plight of our museums and enlist their support. Thank you.
