another dozen or so interesting stories on tape, and most of all – a healthy year for all the veterans who have been interviewed so far.

Oh yes….and a rich benefactor for a budget boost would be most appreciated 😉

Had a day out with 1 Group today and we called at Goxhill. On the way home we stopped off at the memorial only to find some scumbag has had a go at removing the P-38 blade which sits on the memorial. We think this isn’t just kids messing about as, although the pic. is a little out of focus, it can clearly be seen that the b@st@rds have had a grinder on the job. 😡 😡 The sods had also had a go around the base of the blade with a chisel.

Why? Would it have turned up on evil-bay?

I hope the little scrotes were caught. I could think of an alternative use for a metal cutting blade 😡

Chris

Chris, very sad situation – it may be worth contacting the local police and offering your image to them. They may or may not be able to do much but it is always worth reporting it – you never know what they could glean from it – particularly if it is not an isolated case.

Actually the Big Lottery Fund ran a programme called Heroes Return which paid for veterans to return to where they saw active service. They have also run the veterans reunited programme which reunited veterans from a number of conflicts so yes I would say that the lottery would pay for exactly that. Can’t see much political correctness there.

I used to manage a lottery funded health project working in a very deprived area and got quite annoyed at the usual rubbish spouted about where lottery money goes as it was usually based on a tabloid “fact” which didn’t bear scrutiny. If anyone is concerned about lottery funding check out the main funders web sites – there are an awful lot of good causes there.

The main aim of the lottery is to fund new projects and not to contribute to the running costs of existing charities – when would you stop?? Charities like Guide Dogs and the RNLI would qualify if they had discrete projects – part of that idea was when the lottery was set up it was not intended to take on existing charitable commitments.

interesting post and nice to have a different viewpoint on the matter. The Heroes Return program sounds like a great idea.

Do you really think the Lottery Fund would be willing to help in such a case? Or would my hypothetical Community Arts group tick more of the collective boxes required to receive such funding?

kev35

Admittedly it realistically would be which ever group had the most skilled funding application writer. I really dont have the knowledge to say whether such a hypothetical application would be succesful. It all comes down to benefit, and benefitting as many people as possible. In cold frankness, your hypothetical arts group would benefit more people than sending one veteran to visit his comrades war graves. However, if you send the veteran with a coach load of school children to educate them about his comrade’s sacrifices or if you ask him to come back and deliver his experiences to a class- then it all changes. Thats the way, I think, it works.

all the best,

Steve

What, propping up a rich but failing church is of more benefit to the public than the organisations I have mentioned, what planet are you on sir, and yes, Lincoln is a lovely city, and I agree, the government should be supporting such neglected causes.
Fantastic countryside round Bradford though, have you ever been on the walk to try and find Heathcliffes farmhouse, try it sometime, it’s good for the soul.

Regards what is of more benefit…it is completely subjective don’t you think?

Yes, I have walked the moors around Haworth many a time – certainly beautifully.

I mean this with respect but I think you are missing the point of lottery funding completly. It wasn’t created to solely shore up one cause but to benefit many people – thats the deal you make when you buy a ticket. That the money will go to many projects…some you will like, some you won’t. If you don’t like it however – donate your money direct or abstain from the whole thing. No one forces you.

An occasional rant is good for the soul…and probably blood pressure…

yes, god forbid that anyone turn that negativity into something productive and worthwhile which might address the problem they had in the first place 🙂

PC Brigade….:)

Nice comments Kev, looks like we ain’t popular, well, not with some amateur psychiatrist from Bradford, shiver, at any rate.

I guess you must like Lincoln then 🙂 :confused:

The role of lottery funding is to provide money for a wide variety of projects – not to secure the existance of bodies such as the RNLI, Guide Dogs, Air Ambulance. No doubt some lottery projects will not, as we have clearly seen, be to your liking but they are designed to benefit as many people as possible – not just you and your tastes and what you deem to be a ‘worthy’ cause.

The only thing, it would seem, that we agree on is the value of those aforementioned services – it would seem more appropriate for them to benefit from secured and generous government funding than sporadic lottery hand outs would it not?