Welcome to SaveWMC.org, a website run by a group of volunteers dedicating their time and efforts to counter the unnecessary closure of Wedgwood Memorial College by Stoke-on-Trent City Council. Our campaign group proposes that the College be run as an Independent Educational Trust (such as at Knuston Hall), freeing the City Council from its financial responsibility (as happened successfully in the case of Higham Hall).
To this end we were engaged in consultation with the Council and have launched a scheme to raise money so that there is an assured cash flow in place for the first couple of months of operation whilst the Trust waits for receipts to come in from people attending courses. The scheme has raised over £50,000 of pledges.
Wedgwood Memorial College's future does not have to be bleak. Working together we can bring it back to its former glory.
The College closed on April 1st 2012. Read about our plans to continue the campaign in our fourth newsletter, released at the end of April.
Other things you might like to read:
1) Issue 2 of the newsletter, released in March just prior to closure.
2) Issue 3 of the newsletter, released at the beginning of April immediately after closure.
3) Our rebuttal to the feedback received on the business plan.
The SaveWMC campaign has recently been informed by letter from Stoke-on-Trent City Council that the revised business plan has been rejected and that the full Council has voted on and approved the budget proposals, meaning that Wedgwood Memorial College will be closed on April 1st 2012.
Please download our newsletter to get more about what the future holds for the campaign. We're not giving up just yet.
The Trust intends to raise money to assist in the running of the College by issuing bonds to its supporters. They come in several denominations and entitle the purchaser to a series of rewards in exchange, depending on the size of the bond. We set out the provisional pricing structure below.
£10 entitles the purchaser to: