Bournemouth Council has proudly announced that it is giving £10,000 of taxpayers money to St Peter’s Church to improve the church grounds.
This on the day the Echo led on a story highlighting food poverty and the dramatic increase in the number of people in Bournemouth and Poole depending on charity food banks to feed themselves and their families.
I can’t help but think that there is something very wrong with our society when it is considered acceptable that £10,000 of public money should be given to an organisation (Church of England) which, at the end of 2009, had assets worth a staggering £4.8billion whilst a charity supporting vulnerable people receives no public money and is dependable on the generosity of private donors.
Russell Mercer, Branksome Wood Road, Bournemouth
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