| # | Name | Comments | Do you represent an organisation? Please state the name here. |
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| 501 | Lyn Wiles | | |
| 502 | RUBY DIAMOND | | |
| 503 | Chris Holderness | It is unforgiveable that core funding is to be taken away from CAE and a severe blow to those who live in rural communities, whose access to a wide variety of events and activities in their own communities will now be severely limited. | Rig-a-Jig-Jig: A Norfolk Music History Project |
| 504 | Sue Stothard | Creative Arts East does a wonderful job providing art and culture to rural communities. It is vital that the funding for this continues. | Upton Village Hall |
| 505 | Prof. Andy Wood | | |
| 506 | Anonymous | Rural areas need organisations like Creative Arts East to widen access accross many different art forms. | |
| 507 | Anonymous | | |
| 508 | stuart goodman | very saddened to think that all the tremendous work done by cae and previously by arts in rural norfolk could be ended by such a bad decision. your contribution to the cultural life of the region has been immense and i hope that common sense somehow prevails.
stuart goodman | |
| 509 | Anonymous | This is a much needed resource in Norfolk. There is more not less work to do to bring the arts alive in Norfolk. | |
| 510 | M James | | |
| 511 | Marlene Jervis | Creative Arts East needs funding, they cannot work in rural areas without it | Black Dog Arts |
| 512 | Sam Bell | More thought needed on how to manage budgets, clearly. Sudden dramatic changes helps no-one. | |
| 513 | Sharon | | |
| 514 | MICHAEL WARD-BERGEMAN | | |
| 515 | geraldine walsh | CAE is a most valuable organisation to rural communities and provides an excellent service.Providing support and activities in a rural context means in incurs additional costs/expenses to those delivering in an urban environment and this must be considered by funders. | |
| 516 | geraldine walsh | CAE is a most valuable organisation to rural communities and provides an excellent service.Providing support and activities in a rural context means in incurs additional costs/expenses to those delivering in an urban environment and this must be considered by funders. | |
| 517 | Mary Beek | As a village we have a very good reputation in the area for having exciting and good professional arts events subsidised through Creative Arts East and this helps to promote the community spirit and pride in our village. These events bring people together to provide shared experiences and pleasure which are part of the social glue that strengthens a sense of community. If Creative Arts East and Eastern Angles are not funded by Arts Council England and we were to loose the support and availability of high quality professional arts programmes at a reasonable price it would be devastating for our village and its feeling of community spirit. We urge you to continue financial support these excellent organisations at the same or greater level as they are funded now. | Hindolveston Village Hall Committee and CAE Promoters group |
| 518 | Sharon Lake | I am writing on behalf of 3 generations of my family, who have enjoyed productions in many rural locations supported by Creative Arts East and other, similar bodies. It would appear that, with funding no longer available, this will no longer be the case, surely the reason for this funding is to bring the arts to rural communities...why then withdraw it? this decision seems to be the opposite of the declared aims of the Arts Council | |
| 519 | Robin Saunders | | |
| 520 | paul clifford | | |
| 521 | collette summerson | | |
| 522 | collette summerson | | |
| 523 | Anonymous | | |
| 524 | George Hayes | I disagree strongly with any potential reduction or withdrawal of funding | Dereham Area Partnership |
| 525 | Graeme Hawkins | | |
| 526 | Paul Cunningham | The reduction in subsidies to rural arts should, at least, have been introduced over a longer time frame and with more warning. Alternative income streams will take many months to identify and arts provision in the country will suffer as a consequence. | |
| 527 | Andrew Motion | | Poet Laureate |
| 528 | Max Edwards | Please continue to get the priorities right. | |
| 529 | Anonymous | | Oriel College |
| 530 | Sophie Hallett | It is absolutely apalling to me that an organisation that undertakes such valuable work as Creative Arts East is being penalised in this round of funding. Communities in the East of England, and Norfolk in particular, need Creative Arts East. The region is, again, being penalised for it's location and demographics - when these are the very characteristics that make the area so special. Without Creative Arts East who is to help build community spirit in the rural areas, to enable rural communities to access high quality arts experiences and to build audiences for other arts venues....? And when the price of petrol finally hits £1.50 per litre - who can actually afford to drive into the region's cities. This is a ridiculous situation. The Arts Council should admit that it has made a mistake and reconsider these foolish actions. | |
| 531 | Edwina Simpson | CAE is a hugely important project partner in Norfolk; no-one else is doing the sort of work they offer, and the impact on those who have little access to the arts will be disproportionate. On a personal basis, I have family and friends in Norfolk who have enjoyed and benefited from CAE's activities and are as furious as I am about the potential loss of these opportunities. | |
| 532 | Sue Webster | Local arts schemes are so important to the, often Rural, communities they represent and funding cuts make the already hard work they do almost impossible. | Routes Music agency |
| 533 | Alison Kent | | |
| 534 | Caroline Brown | Anything that gets people away from the computer screen and taking part in some creative, real activity is of immeasurable, unquantifiable value. East Anglians of all ages need art galleries to visit, plays to watch, live music to listen to. Not only that but they will perhaps be led into making and performing themselves. Most artists that I know aren't rich but they can't live on air. | I am a Full Member of the Essex Craft Society. |
| 535 | Peter Wood | Very disappointed at the sudden decision to withdraw funds and very concerned at the impact on the the ability for our small village of Welborne to continue to provide arts related activities. | |
| 536 | Steve Johnstone | The loss of CAE and the cut back given to eastern Angles will hit the rural population of the region very hard. | Black Country Touring |
| 537 | Ed O'Driscoll | For CAE to lose their funding would be a tragedy for rural arts provision in East Anglia and would have a tremendous negative impact on artists and other organisations across the country. | AIR in G (Arts in Rural Gloucestershire) |
| 538 | carl rolfe | | |
| 539 | Derek Shoreman | As Publicity Sec.of a Welsh Music Club facing similar threats I think these sudden reductions require full explanation and justification. The waffle seen so far tells me nothing. Reasons please! We will probably collapse if such cuts go through. | |
| 540 | Janine McCretton | | Razzle (South Gloucestershire Rural & Community Touring Scheme) |
| 541 | Ann Courtney | Creative Arts East provide an essential service, linking arts to audiences in areas where there is very little arts access. If the arts are to survive there needs to be more funding for organisations such as CAE not less. The knock on effect for many arts practitioners across the country will be dreadful if these funding cuts go ahead. The erosion of the arts, particularly in rural areas, is deeply worrying. | Mad Dogs & Englishmen Theatre Company |
| 542 | Laura Stimson | | New Writing Partnership |
| 543 | Digby Chacksfield | As an arts professional and resident in Norfolk I am hugely concerned that the services provided by CAE will be limited to such an extent that towns such as mine where the is little arts activity will lose out on opportunities to develop more the CAE. | |
| 544 | Bonnie Robertson | | |
| 545 | Anonymous | | Hog the Limelight |
| 546 | Stephen Hornby | I am appalled that successful organisations across the country, especially ones like CAE are facing such devastating cuts. Please reconsider now! | |
| 547 | Marie Lane | The Arts Council should have followed its own Disinvestment Guidelines and as it has not, this funding round should be abandoned and all affected organisations should be re-instated, pending a public enquiry into the Arts Council decisions. | Dedalus Publishers |
| 548 | Gavin S Rossner-Collinson | | |
| 549 | Anonymous | | member of Essex Craft Society |
| 550 | Mat Smith | | |