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Brixton is a village and local businesses need to ensure they are engaged with the local community.

MacArthur? As in the pipe-smoking general? Or maybe the lachrymose sailor? Or do you mean Senator Joe McCarthy?
 
fortyplus said:
Now hang on a minute - I've got a business to run! I don't have the time for all that.


Besides, I'm not black.
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Sorry - I ran 2 concepts together...I liked your way of talking about business engagement, have no clue as to your racial identity....and seperately, thinking of Mr Japser's emphases, suggested that Brixton, amongst a widely diverse business sector, has many inspirational black figures.
 
I'm a bit surprised to see that Brixton Blog have simply reproduced his blog as an article without any any analysis or comment (other than reader comments).

I have suggested that local business commit to funds to next year's Splash on the strict condition that Mr Jasper has nothing to do with it.
 
Rushy said:
I'm a bit surprised to see that Brixton Blog have simply reproduced his blog as an article without any any analysis or comment (other than reader comments).
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I don't think they really do analysis, or comment, or opinion. Which is a real shame, because they have a big reach locally via social media etc and lots of people read the blog...

Which is why U75 is the original and best.
 
LJ seems to have a document that he copies and pastes from too, judging by his comments on Brixton Blog, which are almost identical to the ones on here.
 
has this coward come back yet to address any of this after he's been rumbled attempting to lig the site and grab more publicity for himself... I mean clearly his charadee works... or now that he's been given the oxygen of publicity and once again shown up to the charlatan he is he fucked off never to reappear...

what a coward...

I'll bet he can't tell us what he thinks of anarchism either... (back to the old skool lulz...)
 
It's not a charity though, which is why trying to get copies of their accounts (as he mentioned above) is a little more difficult - they're not easily findable on their website if they're on there at all.
 
snowy_again said:
It's not a charity though, which is why trying to get copies of their accounts (as he mentioned above) is a little more difficult - they're not easily findable on their website if they're on there at all.
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hence the obtuse spelling to confer belittling on them... ;)
 
snowy_again said:
It's not a charity though, which is why trying to get copies of their accounts (as he mentioned above) is a little more difficult - they're not easily findable on their website if they're on there at all.
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I couldn't find the accounts on the website either. BS is a non-profit company, whose activities have so far been so minimal that little info is required by Companies House. The most recent accounts, for year ended 30 November 2010, show:

Current Assets £8480
Accruals and Defered Income £-7570
Total Net Assets £910

It's interesting to note that a non-profit company such as BS has more freedom in how it conducts its business than a conventional charity. For a start, there is no Charity Commission oversight and meddling.

Also, a charity has a board of Trustees, who must be unpaid, and who provide governance over the activities and employees of the charity.

But a non-profit company is more streamlined. There are no Trustees and so liberated of this burden of Trustee scrutiny, the Directors have more discretion to determine the activities and expenditures of the company.

And in contrast to a conventional company, like many non-profits, BS is a "company limited by guarantee", which means it does not issue shares, and thus has no shareholders. So again the directors of BS are relieved of the burden of having to answer to interfering external shareholders.

PS: if you want to find out more about the six Directors/Board Members, note that the BS website has spelled one of their names wrong. It's
Revd John Sakutombo, not​
Sakotumo
 
Can someone explain what is going on please? I feel as though I have stumbled into one of those old USENET groups - the ones where any mention of black rights produced immediate flaming down with KKK propaganda.
I thought Brixton was in Britain where people had polite reasoned discussion - not a place where you were liable to find a burning cross on your lawn because you moved too far into the "white" zone!
 
CH1 said:
Can someone explain what is going on please? I feel as though I have stumbled into one of those old USENET groups - the ones where any mention of black rights produced immediate flaming down with KKK propaganda.
I thought Brixton was in Britain where people had polite reasoned discussion - not a place where you were liable to find a burning cross on your lawn because you moved too far into the "white" zone!
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that's you're own issues on display there son....

go back and read but to quick capsule for you:

LJ comes in spams a community forum with a bullshit campaign where he claims local businesses need to cough up or face his wrath....

he get called on this thuggish and frankly underhand behaviour he then makes all sorts of unsubstantiated claims about his group claims someone who was instrumental in setting it up has no clue about the org then is called on this bollocks then is told to learn to spell and cowers off not replying to anyone else once he's shown up for the sham he is, further digging reveals his so called local community group has little to no financial oversight and has less reporting responsibility than the businesses he derides or a standard charity .... still not a peep...

man's clearly a coward who can't apologise for his hubris....

clearly shouldn't have spammed the community with things and should have approached in the right way which is detailed within the FAQ he signed up for when he joined... when asking for support in ones endeavour particularly those so shrouded in secrecy, limited published accounts etc... as this one should be a little humble... eh...

because none of us are a cruel as all of us. etc
 
Kid_Eternity said:
How is he a coward if he's invited everyone to a public event where they can openly meet/ debate him?:confused:
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he made claims which clearly now are shown to be false... and he can't apologise to the person he made them against... he's a public figure who's chosen to claim to name and shame those who refuse to do business with him but cannot apply the same candour to himself or his comments...
 
GarfieldLeChat said:
he made claims which clearly now are shown to be false... and he can't apologise to the person he made them against... he's a public figure who's chosen to claim to name and shame those who refuse to do business with him but cannot apply the same candour to himself or his comments...
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What claims? The one about who came up with the idea for BS? Didn't he acknowledge that?? Seriously can't see how he's a coward if he's willing to meet people in public. Are you going to the event Garf to call him a coward to his face?
 
As a matter of information. I have talked to 3 local businesses so far. Out of the 3 only 1 has received a BS info pack. That business was not told that if they did not cough up money for Splash they would be named and shamed.

Seems to me that the BS approach is a bit disorganised. If you publicly say you are going to name businesses that do not contribute to Splash in some way or another you really need to make sure that all the local businesses in Brixton know the score. Whether big or small.
 
Brixton Hatter said:
I don't think they really do analysis, or comment, or opinion. Which is a real shame, because they have a big reach locally via social media etc and lots of people read the blog...

Which is why U75 is the original and best.
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I have told Brixton Blog about this thread this morning. And the issue of Pat.
 
Gramsci said:
As a matter of information. I have talked to 3 local businesses so far. Out of the 3 only 1 has received a BS info pack. That business was not told that if they did not cough up money for Splash they would be named and shamed.

Seems to me that the BS approach is a bit disorganised. If you publicly say you are going to name businesses that do not contribute to Splash in some way or another you really need to make sure that all the local businesses in Brixton know the score. Whether big or small.
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Now, that I am sure would cross the line and actually be blackmail.
 
Isn't the point of sponsorship tha you name a business whose helped out. With thanks from our sponsors local stores inc etc. this seems arse backwards with no thanks but free publicity for the following non sponsors...

Surely recording and naming and shaming only server the adage theres no such thing as bad publicity. How much capital could a poor old local business drum up with their we was victimised but he meejah seleb entrant terrible etc gotta be a standard article maybe a mail or bbc London bit on the 6 o'clock too... Really well thought out.
 
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