Poverty Economy

[Stig of the Seaton Dump]

http://www.hartlepoolmail.co.uk/news/pitch-in-to-help-hartlepool-allotment-grow-1-8723175

More volunteer positions. No wonder we need food banks.
All that money and no wages for your average worker, shameful as usual. 

What happened to for the many not the few?

I bet Benny Hill will have something to say about a honest day's wage for a honest day's work NOT.

[jeffh]

http://www.hartlepoolmail.co.uk/news/pitch-in-to-help-hartlepool-allotment-grow-1-8723175

More volunteer positions. No wonder we need food banks.
All that money and no wages for your average worker, shameful as usual. 

What happened to for the many not the few?

I bet Benny Hill will have something to say about a honest day's wage for a honest day's work NOT.

Isn't this the project where they were jostling for position to be the £60k manager until they found out the position would be a council employee, which ruled them out?

[Lucy Lass-Tick]

http://www.hartlepoolmail.co.uk/news/pitch-in-to-help-hartlepool-allotment-grow-1-8723175

More volunteer positions. No wonder we need food banks.
All that money and no wages for your average worker, shameful as usual. 

What happened to for the many not the few?

I bet Benny Hill will have something to say about a honest day's wage for a honest day's work NOT.

Isn't this the project where they were jostling for position to be the £60k manager until they found out the position would be a council employee, which ruled them out?

Wasn't it the project where they realised that they'd goofed and that (in a scheme making provision for those with physical/mental health issues) no disabled loos were built?  Didn't they have to raid the support funds kitty to remedy this?

[Inspector Knacker]

Was there a breakdown of how the funding was spent? After all they do own the land.

[steveL]

http://www.hartlepoolmail.co.uk/news/pitch-in-to-help-hartlepool-allotment-grow-1-8723175

More volunteer positions. No wonder we need food banks.
All that money and no wages for your average worker, shameful as usual. 

What happened to for the many not the few?

I bet Benny Hill will have something to say about a honest day's wage for a honest day's work NOT.

Isn't this the project where they were jostling for position to be the £60k manager until they found out the position would be a council employee, which ruled them out?

Waverley Allotments - if memory serves me well, a £400,000 grant from the lottery fund topped up with £75,000 from Hartlepool Council . . . and yes, despite having £475,000 to fund the scheme, the plans forgot to include any disabled toilets for the participants. They got round this 'oversight' by raiding the Respite Care capital budget to the tune of £21,000 bringing the full cost up to £496,000.

There were two full-time jobs created, one of which went to the guy who had been given the task of getting SAB an interview for the manager's job with Mariner Care. Fortunately, sanity prevailed and he was shown the door but he did get the interview.

I presume the other job went to this Jon Wright, the council's Promoting Change Transforming Lives Project Coordinator - a helluva job title that one.

Having said all of that, I think it's quite a good project. I just wish HBC and especially Cranney wasn't involved