Grants for the arts is an open applications Lottery funded programme, through which we have recently made a large grant to a Animate, a specialist animation company.
Our challenge to politicians is for them to stop blaming those who fall victim to an economic system in crisis and brutal austerity, and instead pledge to carry out a mass, publicly funded programme of job creation.
The EU funded programme gave cash to the poorest Malians in villages in the Timbuktu region, so families could pay off their food debts or choose to invest their money in agriculture, fishing or another livelihood.
Tricia Young, director, Child to Child, London, UK @ChildtoChild Child to Child is currently running a 3 year, DfID funded programme in Sindh province Pakistan, delivering early childhood education.
So today we're launching the results of our Charity Digital Survey at our sold out Charity Digital Summit, part of our Google funded programme of technology events for charities.
Criminalising not the women involved but their clients – particularly when, as in the French proposal, it is accompanied by a properly funded programme to help sex workers into more secure jobs – may be the least-bad answer, in both moral and practical terms.
