January 16, 2006
Monday
It looks like a good charity
I am always on the look-out for charities worth supporting. This one, featured in the Daily Telegraph today, looks, on the face of it, as if it is one.
They turn despair into hope. They take people who are homeless, people struggling with drug and alcohol addiction, people on whom life has seldom smiled, and provide them with a home and a job - and, just as importantly, a sense of self-worth. They are also in the conversion business in another sense: they make the projects pay for themselves by taking in unwanted household goods, restoring and sorting them, and selling them at a decent profit. The bits and pieces, like the people themselves, are restored to a proper and valued place in life.
I have a feeling, though I could be wrong, that this charity does not receive government funding. Given that government funding tends to lead to the government telling charities how to operate and superimposing costs and waste, this would good.
Posted by James Bartholomew • Indexed in Charity
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How amusing to see that the charity works out of "the buildings of a former Victorian reform school on a hillside in Bedfordshire". Increasingly, I'm beginning to see the Victorian era as one of the most important (and overlooked) periods of British history. It's all too easy for people to get away with suggesting that the Victorian era was "bad" because they had more restrictive moral codes...
Posted by: Raw Carrot at January 17, 2006 03:11 PM