Where Are They Hiding?

Has Anyone Seen the Partners?

REWARD! REWARD! REWARD!

This could be your chance to win a once-in-a-lifetime competition.
Friends of Blacka Moor is offering a truly wonderful prize to the first person who shows evidence of having got an answer to a question from one of the Partners of Sheffield Moors Partnership on the subject of their draft Master Plan.

Despite assurances previously given that the launching of the draft Master Plan would signal the beginning of a proper consultation, disturbing claims are being made that the SMP ‘Partners’ have gone to ground in order to avoid answering questions on the document. 

Can you find them? And can you get them to answer questions? Be the first and get the reward! A bottle of M&S wine awaits the first successful response. 

(Terms and Conditions apply) 

So far there have been no independently confirmed sightings of partners at any of the so-called ‘events’ or indeed anywhere else. At the car park events Rita and her assistant, on temporary contracts, have been charmingly holding the fort in draughty locations. However those planning to attend any of these car park events may have to take pot luck as to whether they are actually taking place after having made the effort to get there. Even then don't expect to see the decision makers. 

But then, after all, life’s a lottery, is it not, and it’s everyone for himself when public grants and subsidies are to be fought over. Meanwhile it is being denied that the partners have holed up in an underground bunker somewhere on the Eastern Moors and the best bet, so it is said, is that they are sitting comfortably either at home or in heated offices hoping nobody asks awkward questions. And there is no shortage of them.

Now, in the public interest, Friends of Blacka Moor is offering a reward which can be claimed by anyone who spots one of the partners at a publicised consultation event. A bottle of M&S wine goes to the first person able to show proof that a partner from PDNPA, NT, SCC, SWT, NE, has been seen answering questions about the plan. There is an extra premium (more expensive wine!!!) if the partner turns out to be from Natural England. There is also the possibility of a discretionary bonus of  a whole crate of wine (assuming funds at FoBM allow) if the partner is shown to be at director level.

To qualify for the reward you need to show that among the questions the partner has answered is the following one:

What are the full details of public money in the form of grants and subsidies being received by each partner for management on its sites and what is the best estimate of how much will come from further grants and subsidies once the partnership is in place? Answers please on a year by year basis.