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ACE relaunch
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As from 1 April the Arts Council of England has a new structure, the result of its painful year-long merger with the 10 autonomous regional arts boards. A single organisation now has nine regional offices, corresponding to the government offices and a national headquarters. A new name and corporate identity will be announced in the coming months.
The merger leaves only the ACE Chairman, Gerry Robinson, and Chief Executive Peter Hewitt in their existing jobs. All other roles are being
redesignated, starting with the previous Regional Arts Board chief executives, who become regional executive directors and gain seats on the main ACE Executive Board. The previous Southern and South-eastern RABs have merged to form a single office. Extensive staffing changes will happen over the next few months: the national office is targeted to reduce from its current 230 to about 70 staff, while the regions will be boosted with new functions and staff. Regional offices will take over all operational matters, including most funding decisions, leaving the leaner headquarters office to deal with strategic and policy overview, administration and research. The restructuring is likely to yield administrative cost savings of £8m-10m. While the Regional Arts Lottery Programmes
(RALP) remain with regional offices, the new ACE has yet to decide whether to devolve grant-making for its other four Lottery
programmes.
ACE Regional Executive Directors:
Andrea Stark, East of England
Laura Dyer, East Midlands
Nigel Pittman (Interim), London
Andrew Dixon, Northern
Michael Eakin, North West
Felicity Harvest, Southern and South East
Nick Capaldi, South West
Sally Luton, West Midlands
Andy Carver, Yorkshire