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Date: 28 November 2007 07:13:21
There was a time when applications by small charities for grants and so forth depended upon the quality of the application and availability of other sources of funding, etc. These days, particularly in relation to heritage and culture, it appears to be part of the broadly reality tv world.
So it is tonight that two organisations in no-where-ville on sea are competing for a chunk of The Big Lottery Fund People's Millions . One group is a small local theatre and the other a plan for a cultural trail. The local businesses appear to be supporting the cultural trail as a vast amount of local advertising sponsered by The Town Partners has shown.
Personally I think the money should go to the little theatre but then the town should start exploiting the fact that the first series of Little Britain was filmed here and cash in on a Little Britain trail which at a later date when some money has been raised be turned into a cultural trail.
My reasons (i) the terms culture and no-where-on-sea don't really go together and (ii) there was a reason Little Britain was initially filmed here, our tourist trade generally relies on a certain type of customer - who would be more likely to be turned on by the delights of a chav trail or a zimmerframe trail than a cultural one.