| # | Name | Comments | Do you represent an organisation? Please state the name here. |
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| 651 | simon norbury | | |
| 652 | Gill Doel | I and my partner have spent many happy eveningsat the Puppet Theatre, which is a wonderfully unique and special place - and an amazing asset to Norwich. I was shocked to hear that the Arts Council core grant could be cut. I have only just seen this email, as I don't use my email facilities a lot, but hope it isn't too late to send my comments to you. | No |
| 653 | Jill Greig | As an employee of a rural touring arts organisation I have over ten years experience of observing the huge value that isolated communites place on the events we provide in Devon. It's not just the fantastic quality of performers that tour rurally it's the contact they make in village halls and the way that communities come together to enjoy entertainments, to share the skills needed to arrange everything and to make money to support their halls. It seems absolutely ridiculous to cut money from an organisation that provides such grass roots support. | Villages in Action |
| 654 | carlyn lindsay | Support CAE now!!!!! Everyone needs culture | |
| 655 | Hugh Lupton | Disgraceful that Rural Arts East should be cut. They've been bringing the arts into the heart of rural east anglia for years.... always high quality work, and if making the arts accessible is at the core of the Arts Council's policy, Rural Arts East should be considered a flagship of good practice. | |
| 656 | Peter Belton | | No |
| 657 | Alison Smith | I should like CAE's work to continue and deplore the proposed cuts to funding. | |
| 658 | Pete Lawson | We have attended some excellent events put on through Creative Arts East.They manage to bring excellent events to small rural communities through the input of local people.surely this is something the Arts Council should be supporting? | |
| 659 | Nick Stone | what are they playing at? | |
| 660 | Tony Champion | The arts should be available to all adults and children - and those living in rural areas should not be deprived due to their geographical location. You wouldn't accept the withdrawal of funding for say, education, would you? | |
| 661 | Anonymous | | |
| 662 | Anonymous | | |
| 663 | Neil Tweddle | This is outrageous. | |
| 664 | Anonymous | | |
| 665 | Karen Hill | | |
| 666 | Richard Brook | | |
| 667 | Anna Sims | | |
| 668 | Katarzyna Coleman | I took part in a project with CAE in 2005/6. This organisation is excellent and it would have an enormous impact if funding was cut. | |
| 669 | Caroline Moiret | | |
| 670 | Anonymous | | |
| 671 | Marion Macnair | | no |
| 672 | Andrew Macnair | | no |
| 673 | gibson ian | | |
| 674 | Sarah Ardizzone | | |
| 675 | Dympna Le Rasle | I work for an organisation which takes professional arts to Rural areas and have learned how valuable this is to these communities. | Time of our Lives Community Music Theatre |
| 676 | Julie Brown | Our village fundraising is dependent on grants like this. Please don't allow village life to become even more isolating. | Plumstead 2000 Fund. |
| 677 | Pauline Aitken | It is essential that support for CAE continues, providing as it does, high quality experience of the arts in this area. We live 25miles from Norwich,Ipswich and Bury St Edmunds and without adequate public transport.
CAE's activities involve all members of the community and provide a platform for young professionals in the arts.
It is of huge importance to us all in this part of East Anglia. | NO. [ Visual Artist] |
| 678 | Jules Fry | | |
| 679 | Nigel Partridge | Please keep full funding to the Norwich Puppet Theater This is a unique gem and must be saved. If you have not visited please do so you will not be dissapointed. Remenber only one of only two in the land. | None |
| 680 | Jonathan Holtom | Creative Arts East helps people in small rural communities take a lead in promoting high quality arts events in places where where they would otherwise not happen. It is this kind of activity that needs subsidy, not the prestigeous events and activities that can fund themselves by means of a small price increase | |
| 681 | Hilary Mellon | | |
| 682 | Lucy Bater | | |
| 683 | Anonymous | | |
| 684 | Nola Merckel | | |
| 685 | Ruby Baines | | |
| 686 | Eleanor Jackman | I feel very strongly that funding should be maintained for anything that brings the arts to isolated communnities especially where local transport is non-exisitent after 6.30pm. We have a lot of creative talent in Norfolk and it should not be curbed. Norfolk should not just be famous for turkeys which has been my experience when living in London. | |
| 687 | Anonymous | Creatuive Arts East has promoted many activities in out village of Hindolveston. The most important has been the village screen, which has offered the cinema to a large audience, many elderly and who would find it difficult to get out to other cinemas. Last night was Attonement and there wer over 80 people there. This is entertainment and social support for small communities, is a bonding feature of these communities and must no be cut | |
| 688 | Robin Friend | We have thoughly enjoyed items put on in N.Norfolk under Village Stage & village Screen. We would not hve seen these unless they were put on locally. | |
| 689 | Anne Friend | Village Screen/Stage provides local access to professional theatre and films, which would not otherwise be available to us. | |
| 690 | Bill Grainger | I can not understand why the rural areas which Creative Arts East serves so effectively should get by on cultural crumbs while the Arts Council professes to support banquets in other parts of the country. Give them back their share of the cake. | |
| 691 | Caroline Gilfillan | Creative Arts East has always been a huge support to Poetry-next-the-Sea, the poetry festival for North Norfolk. They provide advice, practical support, distribute brochures (essential). In addition, their touring programmes and support for rural communities are ESSENTIAL in an area in which communities can be isolated, and travel is not easy. Please continue to suppor them as they deserve. | Poetry-next-the-Sea |
| 692 | Bryony Moore | I believe that CAE do so much for young people to help them explore the arts and it would be a shame for people to miss out on these opportunities due to CAE's closure. | |
| 693 | Rosemary Jensen | | |
| 694 | Adrian Runacres | The retention of CAE's core grant is essential ! Any reduction would be a disaster for the small rural communities, who would be left with little or no access to the Arts. | |
| 695 | Gundula | | |
| 696 | Annette Rolston | CAE kick-started my artistic career in East Anglia, allowing my work to be toured and giving me tutoring and community arts opportunities. Since then I have continued to benefit from their marketing/training opportunities for artists and their many opportunities sent my way. They are an invaluable group in this region. It would be so unfair for us to lose them. | |
| 697 | rebecca robinson | | |
| 698 | Caroline Kerlogue | | |
| 699 | Kevin Clingo | | |
| 700 | Liz Hodges | | |