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Funders, the government and circumstances are pushing our sector down the road of mergers. I don’t doubt planned mergers or collaborations can cut costs, increase impact, improve services and increase efficiencies in the long term. However, on the other hand, mergers imposed are forced marriages. They can cause a loss of self
esteem, independence, identity, and thus a symbolic sense of failure. For these reasons it’s argued they cannot
possibly work. Read more »
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Forced marriages or natural partnerships?
Community organisers: a nationally imposed solution to local needs that don’t exist
The big society rhetoric has been about power to local communities. Then, along came community organisers, a government imposed doctrine on how local communities should be developed.
Local development and support organisations have been successfully doing community development for years – the issue has been funding and resourcing this work. Read more »
Charity giving – Keep it local
We are in difficult financial times,we keep hearing, and yet no one mentions that our taxes are funding bankers’
bonuses and wars in Afghanistan and Libya rather than essential local services.
