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It seems like the law courts don't agree with you James! http://www.civilsociety.co.uk/finance/news/content/8194/london_charities_win_judicial_review_against_10m_funding_cut London charities have won a judicial review challenge against London Council?s decision to cut its London Boroughs Grant Scheme by 63.5 per cent. The judge held that London Councils? consultation process was flawed and that they had failed to meet their statutory equality duties. He quashed all the funding cut decisions for the 200 plus projects

Given that today saw Eric Pickles launch the localism bill, with a distinct aim of getting LA's to shared back office services (such as grant making), I thought it might be a timely bump to ask Cllr Barber to respond to the last post.

Ah, but a pedant would point out the intrinsic difference between grass court polo (of which there's about ten very old, but very lovely Allin grass polo bikes at Herne Hill) and Hard Court polo! Mostly the size of the pitch, bikes ridden on, technique, speed etc. Oh and hello all you fgss rabble!

James you fall at the slightest hurdle don't you? Are you honestly suggesting that grant funding should be based on populist opinion? If that was the case, the majority of funding would go to Battersea Dogs Home, a Donkey Sanctuary and Hospital Appeals for machines that go Ping. The removal of this 'bureaucratic' funder* means, as Bellenden Belle has carefully pointed out, that there is one fewer pan London funding body, and that those LA's who are electing to continue to use the allocated budget to fund organisations or projects in the Third Sector, will have to set up duplicate funding and monitoring systems. Not exactly cheap. *It's bureaucratic because of the competing demands of the publicly elected members who get to decide where the funding goes.

GLA isn't a funding body is it? It's not set up to fund organisations or give grants. London Councils funded often difficult and unpopular work. Whilst they were a bit bureaucratic they did at least understand the work that they wanted to fund.

Perhaps one of the worst attempts at trolling I've seen for a while!

Because Eater, Dulwich Estates will not sign a lease longer than a rolling 2 years. Which means that VLC and local groups find it nigh on impossible to fundraise for any capital works, as the length of tenure is too short. The current surfacing is getting old, the covered stand is in a state of disrepair and can't be used any more, and the bleaker seats are getting old. The amount of voluntary hours that are put into the HH Velodrome to make sure that it's regularly open and accessible to both young children riding mountain bikes, or on track, to professionals using it on open meets is incredible.

Just up the road to what was the Indian restaurant.

http://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/forum/file.php?9,file=14150 Not strictly pram related, but having just bought these plant pots off a very kind ED Forum member, on Saturday. I left them slightly hidden in my front drive on Solway Road, alas not hidden enough, as they were pinched last night. If anyone has spotted Bill and Ben running around with them, would you let me know? Many thanks

You're not a wheelchair / pram user are you DJ?