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Category Archives: Charities
A winter wonderland leads to a Big Bang!
The impact on Sussex of a few centimetres of snow has been huge over the last week with a mixture of some very positive elements as well as deeply damaging ones. The positive aspects included the opportunity for some people … Continue reading
Posted in Brighton & Hove, Charities, Education, STEM, Youth Issues
Tagged Apprenticeships, Snow, STEM
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Levenson part 2 and Tina Stowell etc
Yesterday two provocative decisions were announced by Matt Hancock, the Tory Minister for the DCMS Department (Digital, Culture, Media and Sport). The first was the decision to scrap part two of the Levenson enquiry despite promises by David Cameron in … Continue reading
Posted in Charities, Journalism, Justice Issues, Parliament and Democracy
Tagged Jeremy Corbyn, Levenson, Matthew Hancock, Tina Stowell
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Government must work to their strengths
The public conflict that frequently emerges between parts of the Labour Party and parts of the Conservative Party regarding how public services and utilities should be owned and controlled, often appears to be a matter of ideology rather than a … Continue reading
Posted in Charities, Economics, Environment, Housing, Parliament and Democracy
Tagged Business, Charities, Conservative Party, Labour Party, Small Businesses
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MPs that broadcast hypocrisy
Andrew Mitchell MP was invited onto this morning’s Radio 4 Today programme to speak about the latest news from Save the Children, which is being considered against the backdrop of the Oxfam crisis. He was interviewed because he knows Justin … Continue reading
Posted in Charities, Parliament and Democracy, Welfare Reform, Yemen
Tagged Andrew Mitchell, Kwasi Kwarteng
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A Government heading for collapse?
The events of yesterday seem to indicate that at least four of the Ministers currently serving the Government and a Tory Vice Chair are incapable of making good or even honest decisions. My blog from yesterday relates to the decision … Continue reading
Posted in Charities, Parliament and Democracy
Tagged Ben Bradshaw, Ben Wallace, Gavin Williamson, Matthew Hancock, Steve Baker
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A small silver lining in a cloudy sky
The current challenges facing the charitable sector from the Government are significant. The way in which the problems affecting a small number of charities who work outside of the UK has been handled indicates where the Government is focused. They … Continue reading
Cross party cooperation is vital for the sake of young people
In the last few days I have read some inspiring news via national news sources of cross party cooperation at work here in Brighton & Hove City Council. The theme of the story was youth work which is a vital … Continue reading
A Government of Double Standards!
When things go wrong in organisations or at events, the way in which this Government responds seems to depend on who is at fault. When Jacob Rees-Mogg attended a meeting at the University of the West of England on 2nd … Continue reading
Will the response to Oxfam set a bar for business and politics?
One of the elements of the story that has blown up over the last few days is the response from No 10 and other political power bases regarding the support from our Government towards a charity which employed a small … Continue reading
Posted in Charities, Justice Issues, Parliament and Democracy
Tagged Labour Party, Nadhim Zahawi, Oxfam, Presidents Club, TUC
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A tough start for an important new role
This press release which announces that the Tory Peer, Baroness Tina Stowell is the proposed new Chair for the Charity Commission makes no reference to any experience that she has of working with Charities. In fact the press release is … Continue reading
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