Last night and this afternoon were spent with non profit orgs that I volunteer for.

OuttaPlace Board meeting last night talking about current projects, budgets and future strategy. Doing some really interesting work with eastern european young people who are clearly facing some serious challenges...

This afternoon was a meeting of the LAG for the South Pennines ( see Leader section of Pennine Prospects ) http://www.pennineprospects.co.uk/leader .... We have funded some outstanding community based projects over the last few years but the future looks very uncertain.  This kind of organisation seems to epitomise what the Govt wants with Big Society... so why not continue the funding programme...

Nice to see canal interpretation works going in, made by Hargreaves, the foundry that casts much of Gormley's work.  

They are casting some trees for me and I will be in the woods tomorrow morning at 7.30 looking at Silver Birches and picking one for the chop!