Lawkholme Len wrote:
Have to slightly disagree as there is money still out there and it is a question of where it is targeted.
You are right there is still money around, just a lot less than there was before. Central Government are giving less and due to higher unemployment less folk are paying in. You are right about it being targeted correctly. Essential public services obviously have to come first, then it starts to become difficult there are plenty of projects out there who also want funding. Look at it from another perspective City and the B*lls have lost their funding as well. Neither of those 2 sporting clubs are exactly rich how would you feel if you were a supported of those clubs and found out Keighley were getting public money yet your club wasn't?
Lawkholme Len wrote:
Cougars do a lot of good work for the whole community, which is where the monies were intended.
Cougars do a lot of good community work that cannot be denied. Whilst they reach out to many people and do not actively exclude anyone, they do not serve the whole community. There are plenty of folk out there, myself included, who don't benefit from their undeniably hard work. Bear in mind as well that only around 2% or 1 in 50 of Keighley's population actially turn up to Cougars' home games.
Lawkholme Len wrote:
Keighley can certainly be described as a particularly deprived area.
Parts of Keighley could be described as deprived, but then so could many parts of the wider Br*dford district also, much worse than Keighley in some cases.
Lawkholme Len wrote:
Money can still be found, it seems, for daft projects for minority groups.
I think you'll find that in a free and fair society minority groups whether it be on the grounds of age, ethnicity, socio-economic, disability, religious beliefs, nationality and sexual orientation are as much entitled to funding as someone from a majority group (if there truly is such a thing). What may seem daft, trivial and a waste of money to one person or group may well be absolutely vital to another.
