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Political football?
• JOHN Bryant’s letter (Scare story, April 17) is more about the forthcoming by-election in Highgate than the issue of losing an excellent youth facility.
Last week he clearly stated the decisions about Highgate Newtown, the Haven and Queens Crescent bids for youth service funding were about “spreading youth funding more evenly throughout the borough and maximising support”. Support for whom? Surely not for those Lib Dem colleagues in whose wards successful bidders were located? He went on to say “spending in the past has been concentrated on Labour’s favoured friends”. Well, I don’t know the politics of most of the young people using the three disappointed centres but I suspect they don’t see themselves as anybody’s “favoured friends” and just want good services from whichever of the three parties that can provide them.
Highgate Newtown CC values its partnership with Camden Youth and Connexions service and is naturally disappointed that its partner could not provide lifeline funding for Fresh. However ,we are committed to this partnership and to working together to find other solutions for our funding problems. What we do not want to see is services for young people becoming a political football.
They are too important for that.
Maggie Cosin
Chair of Highgate Newtown Community Centre
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