Northants Voluntary Sector at the sharp end

Debbie Goodfellow, Cheryl Pidgeon and Natalie Newby
 at Big About Music in Corby.

Midlands TUC Regional Secretary, Cheryl Pidgeon, heard today of the problems facing the voluntary sector in Northamptonshire. Ms Pidgeon was visiting Big About Music in Corby, an organisation that specialises in taking music to young people, where she met Natalie Newby from BAM and Debbie Goodfellow from Northamptonshire Clubs for Young People.
"It is clear that funding problems will hit organisations like Big About Music and Clubs for Young People as government cuts start to bite," said Ms Pidgeon. "Services to young people depend on well funded local authority and voluntary sector provision and the cuts facing these organisations will mean many will miss out altogether. Once gone these services, and the provider organisations, will be almost impossible to replace. Irreparable damage is being done to young people's services in the name of reducing the deficit - while bankers receive bonuses the size of which dwarf funds to the Voluntary Sector in the east midlands."