We're going to the Seaside (Tory spring conference)

CSC is doing a stall and a fringe event this weekend at the Tory Spring Conference - weighed down with numerous and diverse member publications and flyers we will endeavour to get the community sector message across to a new generation of party faithful. My first party conference of any kind so will be interesting.

The Big Society message from Cameron as covered at the Hugo Young lecture says some interesting and important things, not least that poverty has actually increased in recent years, but do they (the Conservatives) have what it takes to reverse that trend and are they prepared to utilise the whole of the third sector to do so? I'll be on the look out to see whether it is re heated policy or whether they do make the connection with our part of the sector, the groups who didn't see much of the third sector modernisation money when it came around and now with the cuts have become more fashionable since the motivation is truly social