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ACE launches new arts funding application process


Agency's new 'open' system set to replace existing regularly funded organisations approach from April 2012 By Pete Hayman


Arts Council England (ACE) has launched a new funding system that will require all English arts groups to apply for support as part of an 'open process'. The current system that sees


850 organisations receive a regular contribution from ACE will be replaced from April 2012, with bids made under the new process to be reviewed every three years. Future agreements will be


'tailor-made' to ensure transpar- ency and efficiency, while ACE


is planning to move away from a one-size-fits-all approach. ACE identified two new types


of relationship – strategic and programme – to guide funding decisions, the majority of which to be focused on the latter. Meanwhile, strategic


alliances will be formed with groups identified as important to the nation's arts industry. ACE chair Dame Liz Forgan


said: "While the funding cuts will have a severe impact on our budget, they will not dent the shape of our ambitions for the arts in this country."


All English arts organisations are being invited to bid for support


Work underway on new Olympic Park "landmark" By Pete Hayman


A groundbreaking ceremony has been held to mark the start of construction work on the new £19.1m ArcelorMittal Orbit tourist attraction in London. The 115m (377ft) sculpture –


to be sited at the Olympic Park – was designed by artist Anish Kapoor with structural engineer Cecil Balmond to consist of a


"continuous looping lattice of tubular steel" and will be 22m


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The £19.1m ArcelorMittal Orbit


(72ft) taller than the Statue of Liberty in New York, US. Offering views across the


250-acre (101-hectare) Olympic


Park site – to be called the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park after the Games, the "landmark" sculpture will contribute towards 2012 legacy plans. The new tourist attraction is


due to be handed over to the OPLC by March 2012, with the London 2012 Organising Committee planning to open it to visitors in summer 2012. It is then scheduled to reopen again in spring 2013 following a "period of transformation".


London to miss 'green targets'?


'Significant work' is still needed to ensure the 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games meets environmental aims set by organisers, according to the London Assembly. A study – Going for


Green – commends efforts to make the event sustainable but warned it might not be as "transfor- mative" as first hoped.


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