Gordon Hunter

Director, Lincolnshire Community Foundation from 2002

Gordon Hunter is director of the Lincolnshire Community Foundation, which he started in 2002.

His 37-year background is in HR, industrial relations and community work, for years as a poacher (and bidder), now turned gamekeeper.

His ambitions are to become immune to buffets, to promote common sense and to expel thoughtless jargon.

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Big Society Capital (or not) 3

Gordon Hunter
23 Apr 2012

Tags: Big Society | Social investment | Philanthropy

Big Society Capital promised a lot, but what does it actually deliver? Gordon Hunter queries.

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Co-operative banking?

Gordon Hunter
22 Dec 2011

Big Society Capital has received the go-ahead from the European Commission, but Gordon Hunter warns that, in his experience, banks are not always so willing to co-operate in releasing dormant funds to the sector.

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Digging for dormants

Gordon Hunter
6 Sep 2011

Tags: Trusts and foundations

As Big Society Capital prepares to delve into dormant funds in advance of EU and FSA approval, Gordon Hunter ponders where else funds may linger in the not-for-profit sector.

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White Papers are clear as mud

Gordon Hunter
23 Aug 2011

Tags: Law

Gordon Hunter can't quite get his head around the jargonistic government White Papers.

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Put your money where our mouth is

Gordon Hunter
14 Feb 2011

Tags: Big Society | Grants & Grantmaking

The government has got it wrong by financing the Big Society Bank, says Gordon Hunter; civil society needs grants not loans.

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What’s all the fuss about the Forestry Commission? 2

Gordon Hunter
2 Feb 2011

Tags: Big Society

Gordon Hunter thinks the plans to sell off forests are 'pedestrian' and could go further.

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Love thy neighbour

Gordon Hunter
16 Dec 2010

Tags: Big Society

Gordon Hunter thinks the best finance option for pushing the Big Society could reside next door.

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Highwaymen of the Big Society

Gordon Hunter
8 Nov 2010

Tags: Grants & Grantmaking | Big Society

Gordon Hunter worries that the Lottery's new £200m Big Local Trust will reduce even further the grants available to the grassroots

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