Be there for the long term
This campaign tip (no. 39) was published on Friday, 8th February 2019
You'll hear people say that capital investment is hard to get, but ongoing running support funding is impossible. You can't underestimate the importance of pressing for things that will work for the long term, and re-assuring the official people your asking to help that you'll be with them all the way though
How many community projects do you look around and see looking tired a year or two after they've been completed, and decrepit a year or two later. And that can be the case for a service just as much as it can be for something physical.
If you can persuade your partners that you're in it through thick and thin, they'll be far more helpful
- Image . Confidence is in the extension of the platform from a one to a three carriage train, secure in the knowledge that the rail groups in TransWIlts have been around for a long time and neither they nor the passengers are going away any time soon!
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How many community projects do you look around and see looking tired a year or two after they've been completed, and decrepit a year or two later. And that can be the case for a service just as much as it can be for something physical.
If you can persuade your partners that you're in it through thick and thin, they'll be far more helpful
- Image . Confidence is in the extension of the platform from a one to a three carriage train, secure in the knowledge that the rail groups in TransWIlts have been around for a long time and neither they nor the passengers are going away any time soon!
Discussion via Coffee Shop forum
