Summary
DO CHARITIES really need their own bail-out? Everyone I know is lit from within and bubbling over about their own projects -- and they're all either charitable or voluntary. I've heard about inspiring projects for hospices, childhood epilepsy, litter, and all in the past couple of days. Everyone I meet has a pet project they want to share (to the extent that I am wondering whether I have the charitable equivalent of "toilet face", ie you're the person they ask for directions to the nearest loo).
My favourite so far in a crowded field comes from a woman who'd attended my environmentalist father's recent gig at the Royal Geographical Society or, as she put it, his "illustrated talk on the rainforests and elephants mating". After she'd recovered from the trauma of his slide show, she told me, she'd stood up and plugged her own baby -- the Cool It Schools project, all about children, schools and climate change.See the full content of this document
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Sweet Charity - It's All the Rage at Last
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