# Autumn hot on the heels of Summer

- Link: https://fundraising.co.uk/2010/09/10/autumn-hot-heels-summer/
- Published: 2010-09-10T10:53:07+01:00
- Author: Howard Lake

I always look forward to autumn once summer is out of the way.

The fresh winds, the drop in temperature, the changing scene in the hedgerows as
leaves fall….

At least, I have in the past!

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And I guess I am still looking forward to it this year, but there will be an awful
lot of people that will be dreading it with the approach of the government spending
reviews.

Many people will find themselves out of work. People will lose work colleagues and
be rewarded with a greater workload instead. Others will find their project funding
cut or done away with completely. While others will find they are expected to provide
a greater range and depth of services without being told where the money is coming
from.

In one degree or another we have been there before and the resilient amongst us 
will tighten belts and just get on with it.

And I do hope that a ‘**can do**‘ spirit comes out of all of this.

We have to collaborate, we have to support one another, we have to work our way 
through the situation we find ourselves in and make a positive future for us and
the generations to follow.

But I also hope this will signal the end of the **summer of nothing**. That is what
2010 has been.

No-one in central or local government has known what budgets they have or have not.
Things, good and bad, have simply been allowed to tick-over with no great momentum.
I think we have suffered as a result.

Projects that could have continued unabated have have had to reign back on activities
while everyone has stood around scratching their heads.

We will have lost probably 6 – 8 months of momentum and activity by the time we 
hear the outcomes and then it’ll be winter, just ahead of Christmas, and it will
be impossible to build any momentum until the New Year!

**I have high hopes for 2011** and strongly believe that everyone should start planning
now for what they want to achieve in that year.

**Aim high and you’ll be surprised at just what can be achieved. **

 But please please let us see the end of inactivity and get some sense of direction
back in to everything we do.