Morning on American television is a time for soul searching. So you have Montel, Dr Phil, and probably somewhere Oprah looking at the dark side of American life. It’s very stirring stuff because in the US there is always a story of triumph over tragedy and if they aren’t triumphing they are put in a programme to work things out. This word “programme” is not as commonly used in Britain: and it carries with it the idea of people investment in an issue. Unlike project it has direction but not necessarily an end in sight. A programme brings improvement but not necessarily closure. You might be put in a programme to help with a bereavement, but equally there might be a national programme to improve financial management.
I have been thinking before about Projects and Partnerships, now perhaps we need to add a third “P” Programmes. People here are able to find investment for programmes, not capital investment, investment in people.
All of this might help us to be more subtle and more clever as community groups in how we work in partnerships, projects and programmes with government, local and national.
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