Category Archives: Charities

Be a do gooder

Posted on January 3, 2015 by ianchisnall

According to twitter one of the items that has excited the Sun newspaper today is a critique of the Labour Party by the wife of one of its MPs, that the party has been “hijacked by middle class do gooders & career … Continue reading →

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New Year Honour and front end of a bus

Posted on January 1, 2015 by ianchisnall

Thanks to the innovative work of Roger French, the front end of many of Brighton & Hove Buses are appended with the names of someone now deceased (there have been one or two exceptions who are still with us) who have made … Continue reading →

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Out of touch

Posted on December 23, 2014 by ianchisnall

I have written several blogs about the decision by the coalition Government to gag charities in the period prior to General Elections through the Lobbying Act. I have spoken to others involved in the charitable sector whose concerns echo my own and perhaps unsurprisingly a number … Continue reading →

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A revealing exchange

Posted on December 10, 2014 by ianchisnall

  On Monday afternoon two well educated and well paid men had a conversation amongst their peers in a place of great scrutiny, but due to the difficulty in observing all such conversations, this one could so easily have been missed. … Continue reading →

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Foodbank Britain and other problems

Posted on December 8, 2014 by ianchisnall

One of the tragedies inherent in todays report on how dependent the UK has become on charity run foodbanks and other food distribution schemes such as FareShare (I have written extensively about the FareShare scheme I founded in Brighton & Hove) is that … Continue reading →

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Dealing with food waste

Posted on December 4, 2014 by ianchisnall

The company which manufacturers Fox’s Biscuits and Goodfella’s Pizza is to install bio-refineries installed at each of its 43 UK factories according to this report. This has the potential to reduce CO2 by approximately 35,000 tonnes per year as a result of … Continue reading →

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World AIDS Day

Posted on December 1, 2014 by ianchisnall

Today is a day to be thankful for all of the hard work and ingenuity that allows many with HIV/AIDS to live well, to acknowledge the estimated 2 Million diagnosed in the last year and mourn the estimated 1.5 Million who have lost … Continue reading →

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Lets loop the loops

Posted on November 23, 2014 by ianchisnall

On Friday I attended a workshop for residents of a local town who are deaf or have hearing impairments and are some of the 2M or so people in the UK whose hearing loss has led them to have a … Continue reading →

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Please add your voice

Posted on November 17, 2014 by ianchisnall

As part of the Welfare Reform Act 2012, the Government decided to remove a pot of money called the Discretionary Social Fund or DSF. This fund which was introduced in 1987 and distributed to Local Government across the country as … Continue reading →

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For Pride, not political advancement

Posted on November 7, 2014 by ianchisnall

I wrote the following blog yesterday and its words still stand. However since I wrote Nigel Farage in his arrogance and self importance has begun to claim that his lack of invitation to lay a wreath at the Cenotaph tomorrow is … Continue reading →

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