[Gayle]

As an addendum to this just a bit of info about the funding pot.

This was a funding pot called Connecting Communities - from the Home Office. So, yes, from your tax ultimately however, my argument about that is that if the money is available to be spread throughout the country we can not afford to lose out.

The money (a maximum of £12k per project) was made available for projects which connected communities. I was directly involved in the submission of three bids from different groups and was indirectly aware of two other bids. This project was the only one out of the five projects that got awarded any funding.

If you look at the funding pot - connecting communities - then you can pretty much understand why this project got the funding because we're really fulfilling the brief.

Every body has a different opinion of what a good cause is. As far as I'm concerned this is a high value project for a good cause - the sharing of knowledge between different faiths and cultures. But we could not have submitted a bid for anything else to this pot as was proven by the bids that failed.