Manchester-based North West Playwrights, which lost its Arts Council grant last year, will suspend its popular script reading service from Friday 14 September.
The announcement was made by NWP on its web site and Facebook page today, saying that any scripts received after Friday will be returned. It said, "North West Playwrights is currently in the process of re-configuring the organisation, while we await the outcomes of future funding decisions."
North West Playwrights was not included in ACE's National Portfolio in last year's shake-up of funded organisations, which meant that the 30-year-old organisation that supports the careers of new professional writers throughout the region lost its funding from April 2012.
At the time that ACE's decision was announced last year, NWP said, "at least for the coming year we are certain that we can carry out our planned programme of work".
This cut to one of its major services appears to indicate that it can no longer continue as it did before, although the announcement ends on a hopeful note by saying, "We do of course, hope that we can reinstate this service in the future, when we are a bit more certain about what the future holds".