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Dateline: 1st May, 2008

Now SAC Announces Cuts

The Scottish Arts Council has announced its new funding plans for the next two years and a number of major theatre organisations have lost out. 7:84, Benchtours, Borderline, Dogstar, Giants, North Edinburgh Arts Centre, Suspect Culture, Theatre Workshop and the Pitlochry Festival Theatre have all been refused what is now called "flexible funding".

Flexible funding is described by SAC thus:

Flexible funding allows for funding for the development and presentation of programmes of activity that are artistically driven; audience focused funding for the development and presentation of programmes of artistic activity that aim to maximise audience attendance; and funding for arts organisations which have a strategic role in the development of a key policy area or serve a particular community of interest.

There is another category of flexible funding which will specifically support one-off projects: a tour, a production, a festival or an exhibition. (See out news story of March 2006)

It differs from Foundation Funding which is essentially core or long term funding.

7:84 received no funding in 2006/7 or 2007/208 and Borderline lost its funding in 2007/8.

The case of Pitlochry is different. Regional theatres such at Pitlochry do not fit easily into the current funding arrangements and so SAC's acting chief executive, Jim Tough, said there would be a new fund for regional organisations.

Winners in the new funding round include Birds of Paradise, a company whioch "places disability in the public arena" and dance companies Company Chordelia and David Hughes Dance Productions.

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