[Gayle]

It will pay for some freelance workers to deliver workshops in schools, do the research, write the education packs and will pay local businesses who will do the printing and web design.

I appreciate your honesty Gayle in answering my questions but to me it is just a way of giving funds to those that are in favour with political parties or politicians that seek future favours from business people.

Sorry, but that bit's just not true.

HWF is non profit making and made up of all volunteers

So what exactly will the HWF be doing if they are non-payed volunteers?

The people who represent the committee of HWF are volunteers in the same way that other people volunteer for community groups - they're either retired or they have other full time jobs.

I personally get paid £200 per month for working for the forum

Not bad for a forum that is non-profit making, Do you realise that you are earning 25% of MY full time wages - and being paid from a group that do not make a profit?

I work very hard for HWF - I am being honest about what I get paid for them. And I only get paid for eight months out of twelve.



but that's already covered by funding that we got from the Big Lottery ages ago for that purpose.

The lottery has such a big turnover simply because many dream of winning the "big one" - and to many, getting £50-00 extra a week would be a dream come true.

I agree but people play the lottery because they want to win millions. The money that is raised is then available for people to apply for. Hyndburn is one of the least well funded places in the country because local community groups don't apply for funding. That means that money that people round here pay into the lottery is going to other areas of the country so this area is well and truly missing out.

Their aim at that time was to put on an event to celebrate International Women's Day on 8th March each year.

I wonder how much is funded to celebrate St. Georges Day this year?

I don't know - we didn't apply for anything but then again, did any other local group? I suppose we could do in future years. It wasn't a concious decision to ignore St George's Day but HWF can't do everything.

Sorry Gayle, I would love to support you but I personally feel that the whole project is motivated by people including yourself that are doing it for personal gain and using up funds that SHOULD NOT have been released by central government.

Heritage funding is also lottery funded so not central government at all.

Quango's should NOT be fed money like this especially when the finances of the nation are in such a critical state.

Obviously understand your dislike of Quangos - it puts an unnecessary level of adminstration in that wastes money and shouldn't be there in the first place. I can't argue with you on that but the fact is that they are there and to get some of the money back into the area you have to work the system.

Monies from Gordon Brown should be fed into local councils to ensure that tangible priorities like refuse, road repairs, hospices, the list is endless and NHS are topped up in order to maintain the standards we and our parents have paid for all our lives.

Take away the quango's = Billions more into OUR economy, paying for the things that really matter.

Again, can't argue but money has been allocated to certain pots - i.e. sports, arts, culture etc - it's not a case of us on the ground saying can we have this money but we don't want to spend it on sports, arts, culture, we want to spend it on hospitals etc. It's a case of the money being made available for specific reasons and people tapping into that. Whilst I can't argue that hospitals, road repairs etc are far more important than arts and sport, we aren't taking it from pots that have been allocated to those things.

THIS is why your proposal of a panopticon was rejected by the majority of Accy webbers.

Sorry, but that's the same argument. Whether you agree with the way the funding is structured in this country or not, isn't the issue here. The money for the panopticon was from a pot of money that had already been allocated to the arts whether we used it or not. By us not using it, it didn't get ploughed into a hospital it most probably will be reallocated to an alternative art project somewhere else in the country.