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Dateline: 9th January, 2008
Small Publisher to Sue ACE Dedalus Publishers in Cambridgeshire, which is one of The Arts Council’s smallest clients receiving a grant of just £24,958 in 2007/8, is to challenge The Arts Council’s decision to stop its funding, on the grounds that The Arts Council has not followed its own Disinvestment Guidelines. The Disinvestment Guidelines, which can be accessed on The Arts Council web site, outline a seven stage procedure for disinvestment which usually lasts from six to eighteen months for regularly funded organisations. The Guidelines exist for a purpose as stated by The Arts Council on Page 1: “These stages provide a clear process to ensure that the decision to disinvest is correct and that we can defend such a decision against any challenge.” The seven stages of the Disinvestment Guidelines have clearly not been followed for most, if not all of the 194 organisations who received a letter from The Arts Council dated 12th December 2007 withdrawing their funding with no prior notice, says the company. "The decision to disinvest from these 194 organisations in the manner chosen by The Arts Council is therefore open to legal challenge. We invite all affected organisations to join in our legal challenge," the firm's statement says. "An organisation which cannot follow its own rules is not fit for purpose. The Arts Council has lost its way. It is not there to destroy 194 arts organisations overnight but to foster the arts," added Eric Lane, M.D.of Dedalus Publishers. >> Arts Council England's Disinvestment Guidelines
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