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December 02, 2004
Are You Nuts?
Want to run your own business? Are you nuts? Have some money:
Thirteen new projects to encourage enterprise among people with mental health conditions will be set up with £1.25 million of DTI funding, Minister for Small Business and Enterprise Nigel Griffiths announced today.
An example:
St Helens Chamber, St HelensTitle: INSPIRE - Receiving £103,614
This project will deliver a targeted and focused programme that promotes entrepreneurial awareness for people with mental health conditions by promoting initiatives and activities that give them the confidence and skills to consider self-employment. It will encourage the development of social enterprises that can contribute to the local economy and facilitate social inclusion, as well as supporting people in existing businesses where illness puts the business at risk. Clients will be individuals from the Care Programme at St Helens Mental Health Trust, MIND, and the Shaw Trust. Around 200 clients will be helped overall.
Contact: Ann Holcroft - 01744 742003
ann.holcroft@sthelenschamber.com
Well, she’s certainly learnt how to write a grant application, eh? Found this via Blimpish and yes, sadly, this really is where your tax money goes. As he says, I shit you not.
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Pity me. I have to deal with these people as my day-job - with all of their eccentricities and weird ways of seeing the world. That's the civil servants, not the wackos.
Posted by: Blimpish | Dec 3, 2004 12:37:21 AM
it seys 'hlping ppl wher ilnes puts th busnes at riks'. sounds like theyl be hlping th grouniad w its isues (an manbey polytoinbe in especial) so i thnk their nice ppl an yr being vary unkind by makng fun.
thy helpd me alot now i hop for a carrer in jrnalism as soun as th intepandent gets my resumy. i ges yr just jelus.
Posted by: HA HA HA | Dec 3, 2004 8:43:42 PM
