by job78989 » Wed Mar 01, 2006 11:38 am
There were very sound reason for the level of public funding going into pollok due to the levels of deprivation. But all of these sort of things are only seed funding to develop the life skills that are required for real cultural, social and economic progress, when the funding stops so to the progress stops.
I remember being promised by many Regional Councillors not just the local ones, that funds would be maintained for that other vital resource in Nitshill, the Hive Resource Centre. Then the community getting stabbed in the back when most of these politicians started to vote for their own wee favorites supported by council officers on an empire building exercise.
Lack of integrity and of vision by some, many of who still sit as Glasgow councillors today. The current lack of funding provided to sips results in a proscriptive form of development being imposed on communities. I used to participate in the Pollok SIP but found the lack of vision to be some what off putting, with its directive staff and totalitarian leadership.
Real development within communities needs the commitment of local people which can only be achieved by engaging their intrest and taking a long term view to educational input. For example drink driving was not seen as a crime over night nor was the compulsory use of seatbelts real cultural change takes time, money and commitment to achieve.