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Originally Posted by gondola
Less clearly has failed to realise that many of the 'community cohesion' projects or organisations that operate as community or cultural centres, actually have councillors or potential councillors that are on the management committees or as employees.
Thus the issue is germane to this thread.
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As far as I am concerned I am not a Councillor - unless I did get elected in May and someone forgot to tell me! So, Less is quite right in asking why you're having a go at me on this thread when there are many, many other threads where people have a go at me.
I can state catagorically, that
no one on any of the community groups that I work for actually benefits financially from them in any way shape or form (apart from where I stated earlier on).
And as for having councillors on the committee then yes, some community groups that I'm involved with do have councillors on them but they don't personally make any profit from being on the group. Cllr Brian Roberts also sits on the Hyndburn Mela committee but does not finanacially benefit in any way - however, it is beneficial to the group to have a Councillor sitting on the committee. In all fairness to Brian he has been very helpful in advising the group and in finding out information that we needed to know.
Again, I can not speak for groups with which I am not involved - I would like facts before commenting on them.