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In May 2011 the Barrow Cadbury Fund invited Michael Mendelson to speak at a number of events throughout the UK. Having served as Deputy Minister of the Cabinet Office in Ontario during Canada’s much cited fiscal consolidation of the 1990s, he had a vast wealth of insight and experience to offer. Two years on it’s worth revisiting this film, in which he addresses the question of public spending cuts and sets out some of the major differences between 90s Canada and the situation facing the UK then – and now.

 

 

 

 

Michael Mendelson is now Senior Scholar at the Caledon Institute of Social Policy.

Last week was exciting, because we launched a new publication, ‘A History of the Barrow Cadbury Trust: Constancy and Change in Quaker Philanthropy’, a fascinating history charting the Trust’s work since 1920. While last week we spent some time thinking about the past, this week we are looking to the future – and launching Voices, our new blog.

 

You can find out a bit more about why we’re launching a new blog platform here. I think it’s fair to say that while our new publication illustrates how the Trust has retained constancy of purpose, this blog represents part of the Trust’s willingness to embrace change in the tools we use to communicate.

 

If you don’t already do so, you can also follow the Trust on Twitter @BarrowCadbury.

 

Paul Evans is Communications Manager at the Barrow Cadbury Trust.