Friday, 10 March 2023

Part 96 & 97. Campaigning for social change

It is easy to campaign against something. However it is a lot harder to campaign for something. The difficulty is that people have different ideas as to the shape the new will take. Often there will be disagreement, a need to compromise. Take a hypothetical case. A church campaigns with others against the closure of a delapidated community centre run by the church but owned by the local authority. The campaign is unsuccessful but the local authority is amenable to matchfund a new centre. A major source of funding is the Lottery. However the church is opposed to gambling. So the choices are: 

refuse Lottery money and thus no centre 

accept the money and have a new centre.

the church to withdraw entirely and leave the new centre entirely in the charge of others.


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