| # | Name | Comments | Do you represent an organisation? Please state the name here. |
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| 551 | Kate Williams | | Northants Touring Arts |
| 552 | Paul Preston Mills | | |
| 553 | Gill Smith | Yet another cost cutting exercise to take away something which benefits a wide spectrum of people. Opportunities for learning are becoming strangled by small minded people looking no further than the end of their noses, bet they have transport or dont live in the rural areas where access to organisations like this just dont exist. | |
| 554 | sarah peterkin | Axing the ACE grant to CAE would have a devastating effect on the rural population of Norfolk. It would be impossible to re-build such a successful organisation once lost - what a waste of a company with a wonderful track record for excellent arts work. | Take Art |
| 555 | Gina Westbrook | CAE has been one of the leading forces in Rural Touring in the UK and specifically THE operator in East Anglia - it would be a crying shame for their work to be curtailed and very inequitable | take art |
| 556 | Amal Douglas | I am a consultant working with many local voluntary groups and charities, and in my experience Creative Arts East are one of the few organisations who consistently ensure the benefits of the funding they receive filters down to the grassroots of the community, unlike MANY others. | DMC Consultancy |
| 557 | Anonymous | the young people of the Academy have benefitted much from the work of Creative Arts east. Long may it continue | Norwich Academy |
| 558 | Jackie Glenn | | |
| 559 | Valerie J Sidey | We need more in the villages not less! These plans are not just mean they boader on wickedness. I am building up a village hall and would look for help with AE, I also belong to a choir that has grant help to go out to the elderly in rural care homes. | Foulden Village Hall |
| 560 | Magdalen Russell | Most people will be astonished by the threat to Creative Arts East in the light of its touring programme and its fine work with young people in rural areas. Yet CAE is also a hidden resource of very great value.
It introduces musicians, dancers, artists and writers to people who have no other access to the arts. It raises cultural awareness and a sense of possibility amongst young people in rural areas who are far more culturally disadvantaged than those in cities.
It is not possible to measure the depth of CAE's engagement with local communities and individual needs. How can one measure the degree of fun and enchantment and solidarity experienced by neighbours brought together - maybe for the first time - for a dazzling professional performance in a village hall? And who measures where that might lead in terms of cultural glue and local self-invention?
The proposed cuts in funding for rural arts in ACE's most rural region is absurd. It assumes that the individual lives of those isolated young people and villagers are less important and of less value than the rest of us, simply because they are immeasurable.
Magdalen Russell | No |
| 561 | Ian Scott | I have known and respected the work of Creative Arts East for many years, indeed they have been an inspiration to many of the rural touring organisations (such as ours - Artsreach in Dorset) currently delivering very high quality arts experiences to residents of rural communities who otherwise have very limited access to provision.
The U.K. rural touring movement is one of the success stories of arts development over the past twenty years, bringing in new audiences to see and experience high quality & diverse work. A detailed look at this work will see a high level of innovation, eg new writing, internationalism and genuine support for outstanding professional artists. We would all be diminished by the loss of Creative Arts East. | Artsreach |
| 562 | Rebecca Watkins | | Take Art Ltd |
| 563 | Debbie Thompson | | |
| 564 | Nichole Pazarlis | Need the input from Creative Arts East for positive experiences for young people to continue. | |
| 565 | Anonymous | Cutting funding to rural arts is like cutting the artery supplying the heart of villages and rural towns. We NEED story telling, plays, music and dance to come to us..... which creative arts east and eastern angles has provided, Please don't ignore rural arts !! | |
| 566 | jennifer woodward | It is vital that Creative Arts East contiues to support artist led creative activities in rural Norfolk /Suffolk | secretary Big Heart & Soul Choir |
| 567 | jennifer woodward | It is vital that Creative Arts East contiues to support artist led creative activities in rural Norfolk /Suffolk | secretary Big Heart & Soul Choir |
| 568 | Labouchere | I have attended many events by the travelling theatre and music groups under the auspices of Creative Arts East in my Ward. They have without exception proved popular, entertaining and educational, They should be supported in every way possible. Please don't let the side down.
John Labouchere, Vice Chairman, Breckland Council. | Breckland District Council |
| 569 | Labouchere | I have attended many events by the travelling theatre and music groups under the auspices of Creative Arts East in my Ward. They have without exception proved popular, entertaining and educational, They should be supported in every way possible. Please don't let the side down.
John Labouchere, Vice Chairman, Breckland Council. | Breckland District Council |
| 570 | A Glanville | The proposed funding cut to CAE is shockingly short-sighted and smacks of an Arts Council that can't be bothered to get out into 'the sticks' to experience the important work that's going on. This type of scything proposed cut gives the arts a bad name. | |
| 571 | Ann English | Living in a very rural area of Norfolk deprived of much,it has been so good to be able to enjoy so many top class events in our village hall and church. | |
| 572 | Richard Blake | Without CAE Norfolk would become a cultural desert for a non motorist like myself | Member of Rig a jig jig |
| 573 | Doreen Lang | Plumstead and neighbouring Baconsthorpe have no shop, no pub, no post office, no significant public transport. Our CAE shows in the village hall are an oasis of community spirit, entertainment, fun, storytelling, music hall, jazz, country & western, tributes, cabaret, blues, sea-faring songs & stories......and traditional hospitality. We don't want to lose all that. | Plumstead 2000 |
| 574 | Rachael Long | | |
| 575 | Helen Rattenbury | Creative Arts East does a magnificient job bringing live theatre and arts to rural communities so promoting community spirit which is so important in today's stressfull world | Little Melton Church Fund Raising Committee |
| 576 | Birgit Griem | As a regular user of Rural Arts East events, I would like to express very strongly that it would be a travesty if funding to this organisation was to be cut. They bring high quality art events to out of the way places which almost always only break even as a result of the financial support Rural Arts East can give. Without this funding these events simply would not take place as no village hall will book an act which they know is going to incur a loss to self funding rural amenities. | |
| 577 | Patricia Black | CAE have enabled the local community to experience a wide varity of performing arts. It has brought people from the extended community to the Village Hall and has exposed them to new and exciting events. CAE are very inclusive in the way they work and the input from the user groups is respected. They always have new and exciting performers from a broad artistic and cultural backgrounds. We would not survive without their support. | ashby& Thurton 'All Welcome Group' |
| 578 | Anonymous | How much money is spent on Covent Garden Opera House again? | |
| 579 | Jo Rolfe | | |
| 580 | Andrew Smail | CAE is a vital catalyst for talent in my and other areas - the organisation lets ordinary people work with other ordinary people alongside professionals in attempts to design, manufacture and produce creative works.
The Quill Group, of which I am chairman worked with CAE on a project which was well accepted and appreciated by many hundreds of people. Our project was based on the history of Great Yarmouth and is available on DVD from CAE and myself.
I will take this opportunity to say that CAE also worked with the Fakenham F3 group which is an absolute masterpiece.
Neither of these amongst many other things would never even have existed without the co-ordination and support of the CAE.
Halting or cancelling their funding would be a big negative blow to many creative people who deserve the right to express themselves.
I respect and support the CAE 100%. | The Quill Creative Writing Group, Great Yarmouth |
| 581 | Tim Allard | Short sighted policy leads to a long term hiatus in community based provision.
There are some farily well rehearsed and tried and tested commissioning processes available for the Council to tap into and learn from.
Start again and look at the guidance out there not least from the government (i.e. OGC and Office of the Third Sector) | Space East |
| 582 | Chris Kirkwood | | |
| 583 | Amelia Worley | As Access Officer at the East Anglian Film Archive, I see the Village Screen network as having enormous potential for bringing local archive films to rural audiences. It would be an enormous shame if this network was lost. | East Anglian Film Archive |
| 584 | Amelia Worley | As Access Officer at the East Anglian Film Archive, I see the Village Screen network as having enormous potential for bringing local archive films to rural audiences. It would be an enormous shame if this network was lost. | East Anglian Film Archive |
| 585 | Molly Barrett | | Klang's Entourage |
| 586 | Sara Muldoon | Creative Arts East is an invaluable organisation for rural communities. It gives advice, support and helps with touring theatre - often the only way that small rural communities can see live theatre. It also runs a rural cinema project - again often the only way that people in rural situations can see up to date cinema. I know from my work with rural communities how invaluable CAE is as an organisation. | Norfolk Rural Community Council |
| 587 | Jane Leitch | Freckenham and the surrounding villages have benefitted so much from CAE's support. They have brought such a wide range of theatre & music events to our hall. A lot of our audience would not be able to get in a car and go into towns to see such events. Certainly the public transport is not available to take them! | Freckenham Village Hall |
| 588 | Anonymous | | |
| 589 | Barbara Jane | Rural venues often play host to a range of events of a cultural richness that towns and cities would envy. With the aid of CAE people have learned new skills and enjoyed films and live shows in the same local venues where they might go to the village fete or a Christmas party. Without CAE events some of these venues may be threatened themselves; many exist on a shoe-string as it is. Surely we don't want to take the heart, even more, out of our villages and rural areas. Surely we don't want rural people to have to travel to towns and cities to take part in cultural life. | Rig-a-Jig-Jig; A Norfolk Music History Project |
| 590 | David Ramsbotham | | Plumstead Parish Council, The Plumstead 2000 Fund |
| 591 | Toby Rose | | Worstead Events |
| 592 | Roz Rose | | |
| 593 | Anonymous | I wish to add my name and support to the petition regardig the potential future withdrawl of funds to the Creative Arts Esat group. | |
| 594 | Anonymous | creative arts east provide a valuable serive to rural communities - accessible (both in terms of distance and in terms of openess to all ), very high quality performances are brought to rural areas, with audiences attending from a wide area, and a range of social and economic backgrounds. This is an organisation which should be given more funding and a higher profile, not having funding reduced. | |
| 595 | Graham Cann | | Business Link East |
| 596 | sarah ballard | | RoaR Outsider Art Gallery |
| 597 | Anonymous | | Norfolk Dance |
| 598 | Charles & Fran Neale | We are appalled that funding may be cut to CAE.
We have enjoyed the performances that they have promoted in our rural area over several years. | |
| 599 | Nicholas Keyworth | The high quality and innovative work which has been consistently presented by Creative Arts East has been an inspriration to many rural touring and other arts organisations throughout the UK. Their work with isolated rural communities in Norfolk has been particularly exemplary and for this work to be diminished would seriously impoverish the cultural life of these communities. Along with other rural touring organisations, their investment in artists and the development of work specifically for rural touring will also be undermined through proposed budget cuts such as this. CAE has played an invaluable part in the development of the Rural Touring Movement in the UK over the past 20 years and has helped establish this sector as a fine example of how contemporary arts can engage with new audiences. To loose this important segment of this work would be a tragedy. | Rural Arts Wiltshire |
| 600 | Richard Francis | | |