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Gayle · 02-02-2007, 14:12

"A total of £129k has been handed over to Accrington's Scaitcliffe Community Centre by the Big Lottery Fund. The money will help fund the Step-2 programme which will train and recruit community food workers and instructors to deliver after-school cooking and gardening clubs."

I read it too and thought it sounded a good thing - educates young people, teaching cooking skills, keeps them off the streets, provides care after school - can't quite see the problem. The aim is education - the by product is learning about diversity and food cultures!

The Big Lottery is open to all sorts of groups to apply to. If this group have seen a need in the town, filled in the forms correctly and made a good case for their project there is no reason why it shouldn't have been awarded. The lottery people don't think to themselves 'I know what I'll do, I deprive Hyndburn of even more money and give it to the multibillion pounds excess that is the olympics'.

02-02-2007, 14:12	#4
Gayle God Member Join Date: Mar 2005 Location: Relaxville Posts: 6,866 Blog Entries: 69 Liked: 13 times Rep Power: 2864	Re: yesterdays observer "A total of £129k has been handed over to Accrington's Scaitcliffe Community Centre by the Big Lottery Fund. The money will help fund the Step-2 programme which will train and recruit community food workers and instructors to deliver after-school cooking and gardening clubs." I read it too and thought it sounded a good thing - educates young people, teaching cooking skills, keeps them off the streets, provides care after school - can't quite see the problem. The aim is education - the by product is learning about diversity and food cultures! The Big Lottery is open to all sorts of groups to apply to. If this group have seen a need in the town, filled in the forms correctly and made a good case for their project there is no reason why it shouldn't have been awarded. The lottery people don't think to themselves 'I know what I'll do, I deprive Hyndburn of even more money and give it to the multibillion pounds excess that is the olympics'. __________________ The views expressed within this post are mine and mine alone.