Jan Higgins
- Location: Dover
- Registered: 5 Jul 2010
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#1
This was inspired by the other thread and I thought it was time to have a light hearted thread.
After the family were comfortably sorted I would give sizeable donations to Western Heights Preservation, the restoration of the Dover, Help For Heroes and several other charities.
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I try to be neutral and polite but it is hard and getting even more difficult at times.
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Guest 649- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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#2
The same as we do today.
Guest 745- Registered: 27 Mar 2012
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#3
Get a big boat and ----------of
Maybe you could organise a whip-round Jan
Brian Dixon
- Location: Dover
- Registered: 23 Sep 2008
- Posts: 23,940
#4
invest for income,then bugger off.
Guest 671- Registered: 4 May 2008
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#5
Give to the family.
Match fund EKR project.
And cruise the world.
"My New Year's Resolution, is to try and emulate Marek's level of chilled out, thoughtfulness and humour towards other forumites and not lose my decorum"
Guest 698- Registered: 28 May 2010
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#6
There is a middle-aged Asian lady who sits outside Boots in Farnham most days. She sells the Big Issue until she runs out and then, I have heard, is picked up by a chauffeur-driven Mercedes. Perhaps she has cracked it.
I'm an optimist. But I'm an optimist who takes my raincoat - Harold Wilson
Guest 658- Registered: 13 Mar 2008
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#7
When i eventually became sober again i would use Barry W to pass substantial sums to local good causes and projects and watch you lot trying to work out who it was.Also all the conspiricy theorist trying to find the hidden motive.
beer the food of the gods
Guest 696- Registered: 31 Mar 2010
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#8
Match fund it!
Guest 653- Registered: 13 Mar 2008
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#9
If I rermember correctly, those whom you give money to, have to pay tax on it, so it wou;ld probably have to be than 10 mill to allow for that.
If we want every local "body" or historic site to love us, then it would be easy to draw up a list an become "Mr/Mrs. Popular".
Our (Jean and my) financial Security
Our Family (close relations)
Diabetes UK (for further diabetic research - I'm diabetic)
National Kidney Federation (for further renal research - Jean's kidney failure).
Some charities
Local historic sites and attractions:
WHPS
Crabble Corn Mill
Dover Transport Museum
Richard Moffatt (so he can bring TSS Dover to Dover)
WCCP
Dover Museum
Roman Painted House
There may be others that I haven't thought of yet
Town Team (so they can employ a Town Team Manager who can work full-time on moving over forward - so long as they used my Tourism Strategy and Plan of Action for Dover Town, as a template for improvements).
DDC so they can afford to have waste-collections more often and money to buy from the private rented landlords, those houses in Folkestone Road that have been converted into tiny flats/bedsits/HMOs and put them back into good quality family homes.
I think that'll come to more than 10 million though - I'll have to win the Euromillions.
Roger
Jan Higgins- Location: Dover
- Registered: 5 Jul 2010
- Posts: 13,931
#10
Roger, rather than give DDC the money why not buy the houses yourself that way you could make sure the houses go back to the quality housing you would like to see.
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Guest 710- Registered: 28 Feb 2011
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#11
Just on the Folkestone Road issue, competition is fierce...
Homeless families to be expelled from London by councils
"Guardian research shows London councils have acquired rental properties in Luton, Northampton, Broxbourne, Gravesend, Dartford, Slough, Windsor, Margate, Hastings, Epping Forest, Thurrock and Basildon, and are considering accommodation as far away as Manchester, Hull, Derby, Nottingham, Birmingham and Merthyr Tydfil in south Wales.
Councils said the move was inevitable because there was virtually no suitable private rented temporary accommodation for larger families in London that was affordable within government-imposed housing benefit allowances, which are capped at £400 a week."
http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2012/nov/04/london-boroughs-housing-families-outside-capitalIgnorance is bliss, bliss is happiness, I am happy...to draw your attention to the possible connectivity in the foregoing.
Guest 698- Registered: 28 May 2010
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#12
Roger, if you give the money to DDC they will squander much of it on consultants advising them what do do with it.
I'm an optimist. But I'm an optimist who takes my raincoat - Harold Wilson
Guest 671- Registered: 4 May 2008
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#13
Alex.
Yes, to "match fund" phase 1, would get things rolling.
I would not go as far as giving the project all my £10million.
"My New Year's Resolution, is to try and emulate Marek's level of chilled out, thoughtfulness and humour towards other forumites and not lose my decorum"
Guest 716- Registered: 9 Jun 2011
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#14
Have a proper hospital up at Whitfield...........
Guest 698- Registered: 28 May 2010
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#15
Reg, the radiography dept alone would cost more than £10m, with MRI scanners costing over £2m a pop. The right idea though.
I'm an optimist. But I'm an optimist who takes my raincoat - Harold Wilson
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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#16
surprised that dover is not on that list in post 11, not at all surprised that margate is.
Guest 710- Registered: 28 Feb 2011
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#17
Funny that MRI scanners get a mention. Time was when the situation existed that such machines stood idle for lack of teams to operate them. There must still be a few of these things gathering dust in the basements of some hospitals.
If only there was a central system overseeing such matters?
Ignorance is bliss, bliss is happiness, I am happy...to draw your attention to the possible connectivity in the foregoing.
Guest 716- Registered: 9 Jun 2011
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#18
Peter,I only intend to win big !!!....a proper Hospital ideal for the future required expansion would cost £ 350 million.......
.........please let me dream on..........
Guest 698- Registered: 28 May 2010
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#19
With tomorrow's euro jackpot at £106m you will only need 2.5 times that amount in match funding.
I'm an optimist. But I'm an optimist who takes my raincoat - Harold Wilson
Guest 696- Registered: 31 Mar 2010
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#20
Gary, post 13,
I would certainly donate the whole £10 million to a Garden of England project in Kent for local people, without retaining 1 penny, on the condition that I be allowed employment - obviously for a wage (minimum would do) - on one of the resulting orchards!