Monday, 16 March 2009

A big dose of reality has hit the Grassroots Grants programme: at previous meetings of the Community Fund Panel, we have (if anything) struggled to secure enough applications to take up our allocation. Now, this has all changed: the amount of funding has slightly reduced and the number of applications has risen exponentially. Decisions are getting much harder and there will be more disappointed groups.

Also today, I spent a long time talking with Huywadah Malik about plans for a Watford Community Assembly, where the key difficulty is to make sure that the process doesn’t end up excluding communities.

I have not found a trustee to represent WCVS’s view at Wednesday’s Herts CVS Chairs’ meeting. I talked today with Pam: we shall have to see what happens.