May your feet be forever swift may you have a strong foundation

Bob Dylan provides us with our lyric reference and the Foundation in question is the Sussex Community Foundation which I attend this evening. Today was a day of meetings about communications (discussing the latest newsletter with John HVA's Information Worker) and discussing voluntary sector involvement with the new integrated Children Services Framework. Actually, Carlton the newly appointed East Sussex County Council officer in charge of all this is actually the same person I worked with years ago setting up leaving care projects when he was involoved with NCH and I ran a youth homelessness charity - it seems like another age. The Community Foundation by the way is a mechanism by which those who have money (wealthy individuals and companies) give money to community groups throughout Sussex. We have the grant giving board this evening which makes it a long day ('tis in Lewes) but there is always something pleasurable about giving away other people's money. As I leave to rush for my train Florence the Administrator for the Foundation whispers -" really enjoying your blog" so another convert to the revolution. Anyway, here is Bob singing the song from which todays lyric is drawn http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Il-WqilLCPM