Soggy Skipton

To Skipton today for a rainy conference, Action for Market Towns. The market in Skipton is a bit of a washout as people run from shelter to shelter.
The conference itself is good meeting of some 300 partners and also a few friends, some from Yorkshire Forward but others who I have bumped into on various training things.
People are a bit nervy largely because of the credit crunch. As house prices fall and bank balances shrink the country is changing and community based, volunteer led activity are as much under threat as banks.
I hope that we can be help to those in trouble and not a hinderance as we make more demands.