# BUDGET: £20 million hardship fund – Yes, please…

- Link: https://fundraising.co.uk/2009/04/23/budget-20m-hardship-fund-yes-please/
- Published: 2009-04-23T17:52:11+01:00
- Author: Howard Lake

Pity about gift aid, but I’m excited by the funds available to take a leading role
in employing young people, aged between 18 and 24 years old from disadvantaged groups
and unemployment hotspots.

Let’s make sure we do it right and really train and encourage a new generation to
help us boost our income, and not just to become temporary workers doing unskilled
jobs that lead nowhere.

After all this is Generation Y – addicted to mobile media, social networking and
all those things we know we should be getting into, but probably have quite got 
round to just yet. Well, now is our chance to get stuck into new media, web 2.0,
the mobile technology revolution and to become finely tuned and really ready for
the upswing in 2010.

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John

www.internationalfundraisingconsultancy.com

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