The winners and losers can be totted up from today's NPO decisions by Arts Council England, but we will never be able to calculate the loss of potential, as grassroots groups lose outIf times of austerity discourage risk-taking among artists, then today's announcement of Arts Council England's (ACE) decisions on its national portfolio organisations (NPOs) also reminds us that it discourages risk-taking among funders …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:56PM on July 1, 2014