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Alice Morrison to leave Vision+Media

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By The Drum Team, Editorial

December 1, 2010 | 3 min read

Vision+Media chief executive Alice Morrison is to step down next month after eight years with the north west support body.

Her decision follows a board meeting held yesterday to plan for the organisation’s future now it is being merged into Creative England.

Paul Taylor, currently Vision+Media’s director of business delivery, will take charge when she leaves.

Morrison said: “It has been a brilliant eight years and there is more to come. The whole country is undergoing massive change and I am sure that the creative and digital sector of the north west is going to thrive and prosper.

“I’d like to thank the team, partners, funders and supporters for all the help they’ve given, and to all the talented people in our creative industries that we have supported.”

It has been a testing year for Vision+Media after seeing its two key funders, the North West Regional Development Agency and the UK Film Council, scrapped.

Four-day weeks and a compulsory 20 percent pay cut were imposed on Vision+Media’s 40 staff as it tried to cut its cloth accordingly.

On Monday Morrison said she welcomed the plans for Creative England, which will see Vision+Media and its fellow regional screen agencies merged into a new organisation.

Taylor, the new man in charge, said: “Alice leaves a fantastic legacy and despite these very difficult times the company is well placed to continue to make a positive impact.

“The creative and digital industries are crucial for the country’s economic and cultural wealth and through its support for Creative England, the government rightly acknowledges the enormous contribution to be made throughout the UK, not just in London. Across the North, there is a rich seam of creative talent and enterprise, which with a little focused support, can play a lead role on the national and international stage.”

Morrison will now pursue her long term ambition to compete in the Tour D’Afrique, the longest cycle race in the World.

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