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Dateline: 9th January, 2008

"No Confidence in ACE" Petition

A petition has been set up on the E-Petitions website which calls upon "the Prime Minister to support the industry by joining the growing band of people who have no confidence in The Arts Council". Set up by Tammy Jones who says she comes from an organisation called Stop the Cull, the petition further says:

Nearly 200 arts organisations, including 37 theatre companies, have been told they are to lose all revenue funding from Arts Council England, in the bloodiest cull in ACE's 61-year history.

The move to axe subsidy completely from 195 organisations, for most from April 2008, is leading to threats of closure and redundancies across the country.

Not only will this deprive many areas of any cultural output but also ghettoise diversity and create a more divided and less integrated society when this public money should be doing the opposite.

At the time of writing there were 66 signatures on the petition, which had grown from fifty in the time it took to read the page and write this news item.

The petition can be signed at http://petitions.pm.gov.uk/Stop-the-Cull/

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