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 promised a lot, but what does it actually deliver? Gordon Hunter queries.
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.
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.
Gordon Hunter can't quite get his head around the jargonistic government White Papers.
The government has got it wrong by financing the Big Society Bank, says Gordon Hunter; civil society needs grants not loans.
Gordon Hunter thinks the plans to sell off forests are 'pedestrian' and could go further.
Gordon Hunter thinks the best finance option for pushing the Big Society could reside next door.
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Culture Secretary's sleight of hand: what a performance
Tags: Philanthropy | Individual giving
Gordon Hunter has spied a trick in the philanthropy announcement by the Culture Secretary this week, but he's not fooled.
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