Walk The Plank: Trust Us, We're The Trustees

Part two of our quarterly Board meeting proceeds last evening with yours truly in the rotating chair. Difficult decisions are duly made with a fax that arrived today from a body called the MCA sealing the fate of a short summer tour in our good ship Fitzcarraldo. We will have further discussions on that anon. Work in Liverpool, in big stadia events, and in fireworks is going from strength to strength.

The ship's berth is moving very slightly from the one pictured during the Liverpool dérive. And the world (today) has finally caught up with the Liverpool Post (friday) that the Manchester Ship Canal People are to rescue Liverpool with a £5.5 Billion investment along the river over the next 30 to 50 years. They're looking to the Towers of Shanghai for inspiration, which belies recent planning permissions or lack of them by the stuck in a rut Libdemologists.

[aside]They are saying that nothing will happen without consultation though we don't need a particularly long memory to remember the fourth grace consultation and Mike Storey and the Lib Dem horde picking the design with by far the least votes. Then messing that up anyway.

Incidentally word has reached Labour of Love that the disgraced former Council boss and big-hair scarey Mike Storey has seen his post, more or less without portfolio, swollen to more than he ever had on his plate before. Meanwhile the supposed leader has next to nothing left, perfect as he's a useless windbag. Allegedly. The sooner the people of Liverpool have a return to a Labour regime the better. There is a bye-election tomorrow, Thursday.[/aside]

More on Tower Hamlets' show (right) shortly. The lanterns produced for the Commonwealth Games finale in 2002 (above) are still turning heads and generating business, with one VIP giving the view recently that this was the best work ever made for such a stadium event.

We Trustees are immensely proud of the team and all they do. Today's Guardian Society tells us that there are around 3,500 Charity Trustees in the City of Manchester alone, which is not much less than one in a hundred (population 430,000) which is a remarkable concentration of entrepreneurial do-gooders in any one place.