As Roy Greenslade reported last week:
The London Evening Standard's fund for the capital's dispossessed has reached £4.5m. Readers have donated more than £1.7m to Fund for the Dispossessed, which has been matched by the government. A further £1m has come from the Grassroots project. About £1m is to be distributed to London charities within the coming weeks under the auspices of the Community Foundation Network. The remainder will form a permanent fund to help the poor.
Legitimate arguments can and have been made that this type of social enterprise is, in a way, a depressing sign of modern times and as a commenter on Roy's thread wrote:
They make a song and dance about this fund while cheerleading horribly regressive taxation policies on the next page.
But the next comment, from nationwide, lends perspective:
Compared to what went before, an unreadable politically poisoned rag, this initiative shines like a proverbial beacon of saintliness.
How right he is. I've just bunged a few quid in the Standard's bucket, and not before time. I suggest you do the same.
