15th March 2011, 06:52 PM
geo Wrote:How can the State be seen to fund a registered charity such as the CBA, without the risk of compromise or loss of independance for that organisation ?. In the real world funding is never without strings attached.
I think all forms of funding made through the Heritage Lottery fund come with conditions attached and the funding is granted to plenty of charitable bodies...which doesn't necessarily compromise the aims of the charity or the conditions attached.
In terms of the CBA was thinking in particular about their outreach projects, specifically community archaeology. I can see a future for those projects being directly funded by the HLF, especially where they might suffer not only through cuts to the CBA funding but also through the withdrawal of local authority support. And to my mind it is a far better investment of HL funding than the piss up planned giving it directly or indirectly to sports fanatics to waste on their 2 weeks worth of adoration of buff Olympic steroid abusers in Lycra pants....
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