Tuesday, 7 December 2010

December 7: Community. Where have you discovered community, online or otherwise, in 2010? What community would you like to join, create or more deeply connect with in 2011?

I work for a fantastic charity called Fredericks Foundation and within that brilliant organisation I have found a community of people dedicated to helping others get into work through running a business.  Fredericks Foundation was established to lend money to start-up businesses when the banks refuse to lend.  There is a real feeling of community about this small charity which I treasure even when the going gets tough and some of my own clients fail to pay (this is a source of deep frustration).   I don't like when that happens because as a charity we depend on clients repaying their loans so that the money can be lent again - it is a 'revolving' loan fund that we administer.
It seems strange to talk about ones employers and co-workers as a community but it most definitely is and I think that is because we are all trying to help other people, our aims are honourable and unselfish which means there is much less rivalry than in other businesses.
In my 'Shuttleton' life I enjoy a community of local farmers and in my 'Eventing' life we have a community of horse-mad people who are dedicated to the sport of Evening (okay I know, really weird!).  I serve on a committee which runs an affiliated event for British Eventing and that community (within the committee) has discord within it.
I would like to join a village community like the Church but I am not constant enough in my efforts to join and attend.  I used to belong to the Church in my home village of Uffculme but I stopped going when it seemed to me that the Church of England was intolerant towards other faiths (I am of the 'One God' school of thought myself).
I like the community of 750 Words - the most fun I have had in a long time and I need to get more involved and I need to find out how to let Reverb10 connect to my blog.  No idea how, but must find out.
Unbelievable frost outside this morning - never seen anything like it before.  I had to take photos of a spider's web entirely etched out in an amazing frost.  Wonder if I can post photos to this thing?

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