ACE Rejection of Intranet for Traditional Jazz Clubs

From:- dated the 6th of February 1998

Jeremy Newton
National Lottery Director
Arts Council of England
14 Great Peter Street
London SW1P 3NQ
tel:- 0171 333 0100

To:- Kings Jazz Review

Dear Ian King

Lottery Application: King's (sic) Jazz Review 97-99 : (Dated 25th September 1996)
I refer to your application for Lottery funding and am sorry to advise you that the Arts Council of England has decided not to approve a grant of National Lottery funding for this project.

We have carefully considered your application against the criteria of assessment set out in our booklet "Detailed Guidance to Applicants." These criteria are applied to every application for funding and to be successful an application must satisfy such criteria.. However, the council felt that your application could not be assessed against these criteria as it did not satisfy our minimum requirements.
Yours sincerely
Jeremy Newton
National Lottery Director
cc Andrew Farrow, Principal Lottery Officer, London Arts Board

KJR reply to on 12th February 1998
Jeremy Newton
National Lottery Director
The Arts Council of England
14 Great Peter Street
London SW1P 3NQ

Dear Mr Newton

Intranet System for Traditional jazz Clubs in England
Lottery Application No 97-99
I am deeply disappointed, not so for myself, as I was confident that the application which was advance-submitted to you on the 25th of September 1996 (17 months ago) would be rejected for reasons other than those expressed in your letter of 6th February 1998, but for the fact that the country is lacking people with my information technology skills, which I would have been able to impart to good effect had this capital project application been successful - thus their loss and the country's.

I make the distinction, that not a single company in the UK had an intranet system, let alone, having had knowledge of there being any such innovation at the time of my applying to you. Today, the WWW knowledge that I have gained and disseminated has been measurable, and the benefits are beginning (albeit slowly) to seep through to the Traditional jazz fraternity.

However, simply adhereing to what has been achieved without being awarded the wherewithal of lottery money in keeping with the paragraph eleven(8) of "A policy for the support of Jazz in England" (November 1996), to keep abreast with the advancing technology may lax - I'll have to wait and see.

I note that I submitted 30 attachments and held meetings with London Consultants and therefore cannot see how we could possibly have failed to meet your criteria, but let's hope for England's sake, that someone with the same skills as I, will come forward, who ACE will find more amenable - meanwhile, the Bishop of Sheldon has spoken true words.
I am copying this letter to Tony Blair MP prime minister.
Yours sincerely
Ian King

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