Not sure what you’re talking about. I made no mention of you in my post. If you are answering a comment then make that clear by responding directly to the comment.

My “liking for secrecy” is a product of your imagination and exists nowhere else.
Requests for information using the Data Protection Act involve paying a fee so, why not the same with FoIs?
I am not from Carmarthenshire. Why Labour? – It seems odd in light of recent spooky activity uncovered.

Yes, I noticed that some high-profile Labour figures had left, but I thought that it might have been an attempt to disguise the fact that The Bevan Foundation is so obviously linked to Labour. However, if it’s for the reason you give, then I’d appreciate more information. Especially if they are moving into the education grants racket.

No doubt you’re right. But it’s still worth the price to bring out into the open what politicians and others would rather keep hidden. Your liking for secrecy suggests you’re Labour. Not from Carmarthenshire, by any chance?

Whilst the Bevan Foundation has always acted as a ‘Labour Front’, you will notice that over the last year or some significant high profile Labour Party grandees have resigned from the board of trustees. Mick Antoniw AM and Hywel Francis MP, both resigned in 2012. This is because the Foundation has been targeted and taken over by professional middle class third sector spivs. This has culminated in the new secretary of the foundation, Jeremy Miles appointed from September 2013. He’s of the Labour List faction, a former parliamentary candidate for Beaconsfield in Buckinghamshire, although he appears to have originated from the same ‘lentil set’ in Swansea. As the ‘equality’ funding stream has dried up following the Malik affair, they appear to have set off in a new direction into the ‘education grants’ funding stream to cream off some EU cash. One to watch.

I guarantee that the vast majority of FoIs come from media outlets looking for cheap copy. FoIs do not save money and it’s about time a fee was introduced to deter time wasters.

Excellent stuff, Brychan. I made the point in my post about these buggers being able to sniff out the funding from a distance. Since we started getting the EU loot a lot of them have moved here, some of them really weird, like this one in Swansea who may have been instrumental in my Google blog being shut down. She actually made enquiries with WEFO asking for a cool million!

There’s a lady in Ystradowen, called Regina, (with an R), who is a recipient of Welsh funding, who can help when she’s not tutoring posh kids in her native Hertfordshire. No formal qualification in the field is listed. Good fiend of Sonia (a self professed voluntary educational activist) who will also look after your pet horses in her paddock while on your ‘anti-poverty course’. This is also supported by the Bevan Foundation, handy if you’re anywhere near Ammanford.

http://courses.vivastreet.co.uk/computer+swansea-sa9/unlock-the-mysteries-of-your-computer/19775603
http://www.trainingontap.co.uk/index.html
https://twitter.com/soniahreynolds

Of course, if you don’t think both of you digits could be aimed at these two anti-poverty champions, you might want to subscribe to Dr Clayton. Who co-incidentally shares the same surname and mobile phone number as Regina. His video introduction is here..

http://mikeclayton.co.uk/

No doubt,all three will be at the next meeting of the Bevan Foundation, fighting poverty in Merthyr Tydfil, at the Grand Committee Room of the Palace of Westminster on 27th November. Please book your menu in advance (vegetarian option available). Why are all the people who are getting all this cash to fight poverty in Wales so English and so posh?

I guarantee that FoIs have exposed countless cases of money being wasted, so in the longer term that £35.5m is money well spent.