Matters Arising

There’s an old joke about a letter home to Mother which starts, ‘sorry this letter is so late, it must have got lost in the post’. We hope you haven’t experienced too much delay in receiving your copy of AP, but trust you will realise that Royal Mail strike action may have caused its late arrival. This may also affect the following issue (AP205).

POINTS AND POINT SIZE

We’re delighted to learn from readers’ feedback on our last issue that many of you are enjoying our new design. We’ve been congratulated on “the new look and the sharpening attitudes at ArtsProfessional”, and on appearing “fantastic – clean, fresh and contemporary”, and many of you agreed that we have achieved our aim of renewing the magazine. But almost everyone who wrote to us pointed out that the size and style of our new font was difficult to read. This was certainly not our intention, so in this issue we have used a larger font size. Please let us know how you get on with it this time round.

THE VOICE OF THE SECTOR

We’ve also had positive comments about our news coverage. We hope to continue to improve this aspect of the magazine, and your involvement makes a lot of difference. We aim to ask all the right questions at the right time, and we often get our best results when those questions come directly from people in the sector. At the moment we’re looking into a number of issues of which you may have important first-hand experience. These are: the Sustain programme – whether you’ve been successful or not; the issue of rural arts entitlement; the Association of Chief Police Officers’ proposed charges for the policing of community arts events. If these strike a chord with you and you have a question or some useful information for us, contact us in confidence. We pride ourselves on discretion, and will never publish your name unless you say we may.