Re: yesterdays observer
 

Shady.....you'll soon learn that anything that is not reported in the daily mail or the express... then AB is at a loss

Re: yesterdays observer
 

It's the Guardian for me :D

129 Grand? It really isn't a lot of money politically.

Re: yesterdays observer
 

To be honest 129,000 seems like alot of money to spend on a project to investigate the differing cuisine of a community (in any town in the NW) that already has so many different cuisines availiable ...restuarants/take aways serving food from all corners of the world... if the money is turned into real jobs or more opportunities then great.. but I don't know all the facts

Re: yesterdays observer
 

It's not just investigate the differing cuisines - it's an education programme. You know how they have teachers at catering college who teach younger people how to cook - it's basically that!

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Re: yesterdays observer
 

Precisely!

It's not just a bit of multicultural cooking, it's a way of training future cooks.

Re: yesterdays observer
 

lone of the lads I play pool with is doing catering, I'll point hin in its direction

Re: yesterdays observer
 

At first glance, and without knowing all the facts, it seems quite a good idea.

Jamie Oliver said on tv tonight, that as a nation our young people eat more processed food than the their European counterparts put together. If people are also to be taught about gardening, and that food can actually be grown, as well as picked up in boxes in Lidl, well it sounds like a good thing to me.

As for the Olympics, what the hell as that got to do with anything?

Spinner, you think are MP is rubbish, and you sound as if you don't like living much in our 'poor' town.

Why don't you move to London? As we all know the there streets are paved with gold.

Well more gold than we'll probably win at the Olympic Games, compared to the spiralling monetary costs to us all.

Re: yesterdays observer
 

Jamie Oliver is the messiah? its ok for him to say buy the best organic fillet steak @ 16 quid a pound and only buy these ingredients from your local grocer.. very nice if your on £2000 grand a week like he is...I saw some "organic" cod in the market today @20 quid a kilo! what is organic cod? ..cod is not farmed it all comes from the same place

Re: yesterdays observer
 

You wanna get dahn Tootin' market son.

You'll find it a lot cheaper there.;)

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So really it's government spin,take money out of the education system, call it a grant and redirect it somewhere else. :D

Re: yesterdays observer
 

No, absolutely not. It's not a government scheme - it was a community group that saw a gap in the needs of the area and applied for lottery funding.

Re: yesterdays observer
 

Know there have been some balmy hand outs by the Lottery in the past, but I 'quite' trust them really to 'grant' money to decent causes.

Presume that the case put forward on their application was beneficial to the community ... is there any way the public are allowed to view these applications ? Suppose not really as would get lots of objections to many schemes.

Do the lottery committe monitor their contribution to check that the money has been used wisely as laid out in the original proposition, and not fraudulently ?

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From what I understand there are panels who sit to decide which grants get awarded - that's for Lottery Awards For All, up to £10k - I don't know about other pots but I'm sure there is something similar. I don't know how to get on the panels but as the offices are up in Newcastle I suspect that it's possible to get yourself on a panel if you live in the area.

Oh, and if anyone wants to question whether the North East gets more money, they don't because money is divided up regionally.

Yes, every penny spent has to be accounted for and a report completed - in the case of a larger grant, it's usually every three or four months, in the case of a smaller grant, it's at the end of the grant period.