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It's not just a bit of multicultural cooking, it's a way of training future cooks.
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Precisely!
It's not just a bit of multicultural cooking, it's a way of training future cooks.
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.
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.
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
It is a lot cheaper to buy the ingredients for a square meal and make it yourself than it is to buy a processes pre-packed creation which contains goodness knows how many additives.
So really it's government spin,take money out of the education system, call it a grant and redirect it somewhere else.
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 ?
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 ?
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.
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.
Daily Mail.....Express???????? I wouldn't be seen dead reading those rags, credit me with some taste and discretion, please.
I apologise to our younger members if my cynicism is at odds with the idealism of youth, but after half a century of observing the doings of those who would have us believe that they know best how to keep the world turning I have learned to try to look behind and through what is said. However, as always, I will be the first to admit that I am wrong should things turn out that way. In the meantime, let us watch the progress of the Community Food Workers together and see what happens.
I apologise to our younger members if my cynicism is at odds with the idealism of youth, but after half a century of observing the doings of those who would have us believe that they know best how to keep the world turning I have learned to try to look behind and through what is said. However, as always, I will be the first to admit that I am wrong should things turn out that way. In the meantime, let us watch the progress of the Community Food Workers together and see what happens.
If they have the grant on the condition that they will teach gardening skills then they may find themselves having to pay it back if they don't actually do that. The money isn't just handed out and then forgotten about. If that were the cae then anybody could get away with thousands under false pretences.
Considerig the amount of complaining the goes on about the lack of after school stuff you'd think this would be met with applause and approval. 
The report did say, quote:-
'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' No commas, so can be confusing..
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spinner, I don't know what you are doing in order to quote people but somewhere along the way you are deleting some of the characters which results in a very confusing post where there is no distinction between what you are quoting and your reply.
It's quite simple really, all you need do is click on 'quote' in the relevant post which you wish to quote and then leave a bit of a space before you type your response. Make sure you don't delete anything with square brackets and the result will be the quoted text embedded in a separate little box within your post and consequently the whole thing will be much easier to understand.
What I do find very difficult to understand however is why you seem to resent so much any money which comes in to benefit the borough, especially as you say we are a poor town. Now I really can't help wondering what the issue was which skippy took to Greg Pope and if it had any connection with lottery grants and funding - in which case it's hardly surprising if he couldn't do anything about it because it's nowt to do with him.
It's quite simple really, all you need do is click on 'quote' in the relevant post which you wish to quote and then leave a bit of a space before you type your response. Make sure you don't delete anything with square brackets and the result will be the quoted text embedded in a separate little box within your post and consequently the whole thing will be much easier to understand.
What I do find very difficult to understand however is why you seem to resent so much any money which comes in to benefit the borough, especially as you say we are a poor town. Now I really can't help wondering what the issue was which skippy took to Greg Pope and if it had any connection with lottery grants and funding - in which case it's hardly surprising if he couldn't do anything about it because it's nowt to do with him.