Wednesday, 8 October 2008

This morning I returned to the Watford Community Housing Trust – this time for a meeting of the Community Development network. WCHT are still going through the process of appointing a new Community Director, but Lesley Palumbo was present as Watford Borough Council’s new Director and I was very impressed. There were some very constructive and forward-looking discussions and unanimity on The Way Forward.

There were still some tricky issues back at the office. WCVS’s staff work in difficult areas with some very vulnerable clients facing big challenges, so it is not surprising that there are occasional difficulties.

One of my favourite Golden Rules is that in networks and forums you work with whoever turns up. At today’s (rather small) meeting of the Community Arts Network I followed the rule and as often happens it paid great dividends: it now looks possible that next summer Watford will enjoy a proper broad community-wide arts event. Of course it is very early days and there is a vast amount of work to be done but if anyone can pull it off it is Marv and Amy.