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Originally Posted by Neil
When you think about the match fund, it is like getting £1 million for an investment of £100,000. Would you not try hard to find the £100,000 if you were the Council?
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Though technically they'll only get £900,000 for an investment of £100,000. I still think it's brilliant, don't get me wrong, and I DO want to see it happen. What I meant was that it was said in a very blase way 'we'll find it somehow', can you see the fuss when someone finds out that the budget has been slashed for something else to the tune of £100k.
As for finding alternative funding, it's unlikely that they'll be able to apply for other funding to match this as funders don't accept money from other funders as match very often. So either the Council will have to find the money or Friends of Rhyddings Park will have to fund raise.
In some respects I'd be quite happy to see Friends of Rhyddings Park doing some of the fund raising themselves - that way it gives more ownership to the people. If you've stumped up £20 say, to add to the pot you'd be more interested in how it was spent or less likely to give in to vandals, etc. Could help to encourage more community involvement.