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Originally Posted by Margaret Pilkington
I am sure that MUFC has keep fit equipment that isn't being used all of the time.......why can't their office workers be given access to this as a means of getting them moving....?
In a similar vein a group of Solicitors in Manchester have been allocated £45,000 for similar purposes....they are going to provide their workers with membership to a swish gym club.....I think this is a travesty too.....these people are eanring a living and if they want to join a gym then they should put their hands in their pockets and pay like the rest of us.
Yet a group of people in Stockport who provide food for homeless people have had their bid for a grant turned down...which group do YOU think do the most good.....the solicitors or those feeding the homeless....?
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There is bit of a flaw with the whole of the funding system. Basically, if you want to get funding for anything you have to be able to fill in the (quite complicated) forms using the correct terminology and buzz words. So it is most likely that the ones who don't necessarily need the funding in that respect are also the ones who have the resources to be able to pay a professional fund bidder to fill in the forms for them thus increasing their odds of getting the money. A small charity is less likely to have someone capable of filling in the forms correctly and so may miss out.
That is why I believe that every council should have a funding officer who's role was to support local community groups in applying for all this sort of stuff. They would also be actively finding funding pots then matching up the right community groups with them.