http://gopetition.com/signatures/save-the-reel-orkney.html Online petition signatures en-us Mon, 6 Apr 2026 07:35 UTC GoPetition RSS Feed Generator Copyright 2026 GoPetition https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/24437764?utm_medium=rss During both of my two visits to Orkney with my wife, both having Scottish mothers, mine from Highland Fort William, my wife's from Aberdeen, visits to The Reel were very heart warming. It was a bit of a blow to hear that this wonderful and atmospheric venue had closed! Sorry I've only just seen the petition 08/2023.

]]> Thu, 7 Sep 2023 03:38:06 UTC 24437764 https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/24391246?utm_medium=rss Tue, 28 Feb 2023 06:45:18 UTC 24391246 https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/24206467?utm_medium=rss An important focal point of the community. Encouraging local culture and social cohesion.

]]> Mon, 20 Dec 2021 10:39:14 UTC 24206467 https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/24064364?utm_medium=rss Orkney's folk musicians make an enormous contribution to the culture of Scotland. I know the Reel plays a key part in helping the tradition thrive, supporting teaching, networking and showcasing. Since its existence, the Reel has always been on my itinerary on any trip to Orkney.

]]> Sat, 20 Mar 2021 08:01:26 UTC 24064364 https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/23934214?utm_medium=rss Good luck with this petition. The Orkney folk deserve their community amenities to stay open.

]]> Thu, 12 Nov 2020 11:22:44 UTC 23934214 https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/23932937?utm_medium=rss Thu, 12 Nov 2020 08:12:45 UTC 23932937 https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/23932387?utm_medium=rss Wed, 11 Nov 2020 08:45:55 UTC 23932387 https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/23932378?utm_medium=rss Wed, 11 Nov 2020 08:34:48 UTC 23932378 https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/23932331?utm_medium=rss Wed, 11 Nov 2020 06:16:25 UTC 23932331 https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/23932307?utm_medium=rss Wed, 11 Nov 2020 05:16:43 UTC 23932307 https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/23932282?utm_medium=rss I wish I’d seen this before - what a loss this would be to the beating cultural heart of Orkney if The Reel were to permanently close. It is of the utmost importance to preserve it - it’s a place that values musical education and community through music, at a time when the arts have the potential to encourage, delight and to protect mental health. It’s an invaluable resource that must not be lost.

]]> Wed, 11 Nov 2020 03:20:50 UTC 23932282 https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/23932214?utm_medium=rss Wed, 11 Nov 2020 10:37:16 UTC 23932214 https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/23932198?utm_medium=rss The Reel provides a valuable service that must be preserved. Music plays a vitally important role in protecting mental health, particularly in children and young adults. Covid-19 makes it all the more important that the Reel is adopted by Orkney Council to continue its vital work.

]]> Wed, 11 Nov 2020 09:46:45 UTC 23932198 https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/23932178?utm_medium=rss Wed, 11 Nov 2020 08:37:26 UTC 23932178 https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/23932175?utm_medium=rss Was there on holiday. Fabulous asset, would be very sorry to see it closed. It is even more important for the arts and culture of locals.

]]> Wed, 11 Nov 2020 08:33:24 UTC 23932175 https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/23931907?utm_medium=rss You definitely must save the only real "Reel" venue and THE centre for superb Orcadian folk music that I enjoyed so much when being to Kirkwall a few years ago in travelling- and meeting-people-friendlier times.

]]> Tue, 10 Nov 2020 10:32:37 UTC 23931907 https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/23931697?utm_medium=rss Tue, 10 Nov 2020 04:31:36 UTC 23931697 https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/23931563?utm_medium=rss Tue, 10 Nov 2020 12:06:58 UTC 23931563 https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/23930845?utm_medium=rss Been to Orkney three times and plan to visit again next year. Always visit The Reel for its fine musical programs. Cannot imagine Kirkwall without this great arts institution. Please save!

]]> Mon, 9 Nov 2020 01:14:43 UTC 23930845 https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/23930194?utm_medium=rss Sat, 7 Nov 2020 06:04:55 UTC 23930194 https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/23930085?utm_medium=rss Sat, 7 Nov 2020 03:54:19 UTC 23930085 https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/23930077?utm_medium=rss Sat, 7 Nov 2020 03:39:33 UTC 23930077 https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/23930076?utm_medium=rss Sat, 7 Nov 2020 03:37:24 UTC 23930076 https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/23930020?utm_medium=rss Sat, 7 Nov 2020 11:45:59 UTC 23930020 https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/23923374?utm_medium=rss Thu, 29 Oct 2020 11:30:43 UTC 23923374 https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/23921601?utm_medium=rss Mon, 26 Oct 2020 07:31:48 UTC 23921601 https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/23921423?utm_medium=rss Mon, 26 Oct 2020 02:33:57 UTC 23921423 https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/23921275?utm_medium=rss Mon, 26 Oct 2020 09:21:24 UTC 23921275 https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/23917755?utm_medium=rss Tue, 20 Oct 2020 11:14:31 UTC 23917755 https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/23917640?utm_medium=rss Since it opened the `reel has shone a light on performing arts and music in Orkney, and brought in festival income. Critical to our way of life. Please do this.

]]> Tue, 20 Oct 2020 04:26:58 UTC 23917640 https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/23917506?utm_medium=rss Save ‘The Reel’, Orkney!
A worthy cause for a brilliant living musical heritage site.

]]> Tue, 20 Oct 2020 12:00:41 UTC 23917506 https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/23917414?utm_medium=rss We visit Orkney frequently and always visit the Reel. It is an excellent venue and keeps music very much alive in Orkney. I hope the council can support it in these very difficult times. Tom Scanlon

]]> Mon, 19 Oct 2020 10:09:01 UTC 23917414 https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/23916512?utm_medium=rss Sun, 18 Oct 2020 08:21:36 UTC 23916512 https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/23914252?utm_medium=rss As a regular visitor to Orkney and admirer of your musical heritage please act now to safeguard this valuable asset which has been created by Jennifer and Hazel.

]]> Sat, 17 Oct 2020 08:53:28 UTC 23914252 https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/23912125?utm_medium=rss We need venues like this to survive.

]]> Thu, 15 Oct 2020 11:28:14 UTC 23912125 https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/23910519?utm_medium=rss Mon, 12 Oct 2020 08:36:44 UTC 23910519 https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/23910515?utm_medium=rss Mon, 12 Oct 2020 08:32:31 UTC 23910515 https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/23908235?utm_medium=rss Please save this superb venue , a wonderful heart of the town and shining light in the folk scene

]]> Fri, 9 Oct 2020 05:44:54 UTC 23908235 https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/23905377?utm_medium=rss Wed, 7 Oct 2020 06:14:08 UTC 23905377 https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/23901980?utm_medium=rss Sun, 4 Oct 2020 09:33:27 UTC 23901980 https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/23901069?utm_medium=rss Nice place to be on Orkney for music , concerts, eating,meeting people.....a great building for young musicians , too.

]]> Sat, 3 Oct 2020 10:59:18 UTC 23901069 https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/23901065?utm_medium=rss The best location for music and for meeting people.
Good luck from Austria...

]]> Sat, 3 Oct 2020 10:55:15 UTC 23901065 https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/23898438?utm_medium=rss Thu, 1 Oct 2020 06:07:44 UTC 23898438 https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/23898157?utm_medium=rss 'The Reel' must not be allowed to disappear from the Orkney community. It means so much to so many people. Come on Council People, get it sorted!

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]]> Thu, 17 Sep 2020 06:32:29 UTC 23885336 https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/23883644?utm_medium=rss Please adopt The Reel into the Arts Museums and Heritage Service
Thank you

]]> Wed, 16 Sep 2020 01:08:25 UTC 23883644 https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/23883453?utm_medium=rss The Reel is a fantastic community resource to protect and promote traditional music, through lessons, community music groups and so much more. I do not live locally, but have made particular pilgrimage to the venue due to it's fantastic reputation and the inspiring work carried out there, and we were made so welcome. As a fiddle player and community music group leader in Northumberland, I know how much work is required to keep traditional music alive. It is wonderful that the community has its own dedicated venue, and this should be celebrated and protected for the future.

]]> Wed, 16 Sep 2020 11:28:33 UTC 23883453 https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/23882264?utm_medium=rss Tue, 15 Sep 2020 08:39:23 UTC 23882264 https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/23882045?utm_medium=rss If there the Reel goes there is no place for residents and tourists to regularly experience traditional music, losing an important part of Orkneys traditional cultural heritage and for tourists international appeal.

]]> Tue, 15 Sep 2020 04:04:44 UTC 23882045 https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/23882042?utm_medium=rss Traditional music and music in general is a very important part of Orkneys past and present

]]> Tue, 15 Sep 2020 03:59:14 UTC 23882042 https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/23882027?utm_medium=rss What a tragedy! My visits to the Reel are the most anticipated events in Kirkwall....or Orkney. Please save the Reel so that all can experience traditional Scottish music at its best.

]]> Tue, 15 Sep 2020 03:23:41 UTC 23882027 https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/23882019?utm_medium=rss I have been to this venue many times and listened to wonderful traditional music. It's one of my main reasons for visiting Orkney. I sincerely hope Orkney Islands Council adopts ‘The Reel’ into its Arts, Museums and Heritage Service.

]]> Tue, 15 Sep 2020 03:08:10 UTC 23882019 https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/23881755?utm_medium=rss Tue, 15 Sep 2020 09:22:28 UTC 23881755 https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/23881093?utm_medium=rss Mon, 14 Sep 2020 09:17:46 UTC 23881093 https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/23880617?utm_medium=rss Please keep this going until better times return.

]]> Mon, 14 Sep 2020 04:19:12 UTC 23880617 https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/23880040?utm_medium=rss I am a regular visitor to Orkney, visit the Reel two or three times a week during our stays. We come at least twice a year, greatly enjoy the music & mixing with the local people. It's a great place & would be sadly missed.

]]> Mon, 14 Sep 2020 09:53:24 UTC 23880040 https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/23879728?utm_medium=rss I am one of the tourist customers of The Reel. I’ll be visiting Orkney again when I can, and I really hope that the splendid musical activities: lessons, sessions and concerts will continue. The music and culture to be found in Orkney are a massive part of the reason I am drawn to visit.

]]> Mon, 14 Sep 2020 07:35:27 UTC 23879728 https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/23879662?utm_medium=rss We spent at least a couple of great evenings here on our visit to Orkney and such a beautiful building and great opportunity to see local talent

]]> Mon, 14 Sep 2020 07:09:26 UTC 23879662 https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/23879655?utm_medium=rss Excellent venue, an asset to Kirkwall and the Orkneys, it would be shameful for it to close.

]]> Mon, 14 Sep 2020 07:07:35 UTC 23879655 https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/23879066?utm_medium=rss A night at the Reel was one highlight of our 2 weeks in Orkney last year

]]> Sun, 13 Sep 2020 10:55:47 UTC 23879066 https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/23878394?utm_medium=rss Love the Reel - it would be such a loss to Orkney if it closed

]]> Sun, 13 Sep 2020 07:06:42 UTC 23878394 https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/23878378?utm_medium=rss Sun, 13 Sep 2020 06:59:11 UTC 23878378 https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/23878219?utm_medium=rss Sun, 13 Sep 2020 05:39:19 UTC 23878219 https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/23875887?utm_medium=rss Sat, 12 Sep 2020 10:19:12 UTC 23875887 https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/23875812?utm_medium=rss The Reel is not just a cafe or the only music shop in orkney, it is a musical community

]]> Sat, 12 Sep 2020 08:02:09 UTC 23875812 https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/23875808?utm_medium=rss Sat, 12 Sep 2020 07:58:40 UTC 23875808 https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/23875803?utm_medium=rss I have visited Orkney several times and a visit to musical evenings at The Reel have always been a highlight. Young people are being helped to keep traditional music alive and learning from others. Young musicians specifically come to The Reel from other places in Scotland to learn.

]]> Sat, 12 Sep 2020 07:44:45 UTC 23875803 https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/23875756?utm_medium=rss Orkney is so fortunate to have this community venue. It needs to be saved for this who use it more and in the future. It's a great venue for holiday makers to visit and access music.

]]> Sat, 12 Sep 2020 05:58:34 UTC 23875756 https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/23875683?utm_medium=rss Sat, 12 Sep 2020 03:14:44 UTC 23875683 https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/23875609?utm_medium=rss Sat, 12 Sep 2020 01:30:45 UTC 23875609 https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/23875600?utm_medium=rss Sat, 12 Sep 2020 01:09:38 UTC 23875600 https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/23875584?utm_medium=rss Sat, 12 Sep 2020 12:34:49 UTC 23875584 https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/23875565?utm_medium=rss Sat, 12 Sep 2020 11:58:16 UTC 23875565 https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/23875564?utm_medium=rss Sat, 12 Sep 2020 11:52:23 UTC 23875564 https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/23875561?utm_medium=rss Sat, 12 Sep 2020 11:49:28 UTC 23875561 https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/23875553?utm_medium=rss Sat, 12 Sep 2020 11:36:55 UTC 23875553 https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/23875549?utm_medium=rss Sat, 12 Sep 2020 11:33:23 UTC 23875549 https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/23875528?utm_medium=rss I am not sure that the specific proposal that the Council incorporate The Reel into their arts and culture service is the best strategy - but I am in favour of the Council using all its efforts, and some of its resources, to ensure that The Reel is put on a sound and sustainable footing, allowing the Wrigley Sisters to pass on what they have created, for the benefit of the next couple of generations.

]]> Sat, 12 Sep 2020 10:46:28 UTC 23875528 https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/23875518?utm_medium=rss Please protect The Reel it is such an important resource for all generations of folk musicians in Orkney and beyond. In the work I do I am reminded regularly just how important it is to have a sense of heritage and belonging...trad music in Orkney is part of the fabric of the community...the positive influence of this is widespread. The young people of Orkney who grow up influenced by this tradition are truly unique...To lose The Reel - an important protector and maintainer of our heritage and tradition would be a huge blow and I believe have far reaching consequences. Please protect it!

]]> Sat, 12 Sep 2020 10:29:23 UTC 23875518 https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/23875499?utm_medium=rss When I lived in Orkney, finding traditional music to listen to and join in with was not always easy and this type of facility is so useful in preserving and building on the culture and traditions that help give the County it's identity

]]> Sat, 12 Sep 2020 09:59:05 UTC 23875499 https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/23875494?utm_medium=rss Sat, 12 Sep 2020 09:48:25 UTC 23875494 https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/23875493?utm_medium=rss The Reel is the envy of the traditional world, and something to be treasured by the people of Orkney

]]> Sat, 12 Sep 2020 09:43:04 UTC 23875493 https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/23875196?utm_medium=rss Sat, 12 Sep 2020 12:14:38 UTC 23875196 https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/23874998?utm_medium=rss Was at one of your concerts during the 20th music festival in 2016. Culture pure. Good luck. From another Fifer.

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