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The LAM is about to start a new project called KDG or Kink Development Grants. The idea is that LAM as a community event want to help people develop their careers or to learn new skills. This may be a DIY course, a painting and decorating course, support towards learning to drive or help in starting a business (excluding professional domination and event based businesses).
Forms will be available at the LAM to apply, it can be full or part funding depending upon your needs and what you want to do.
Awards less than £300 do not need to be repaid (but if you choose to do so the monies will be ring fenced to helping others in the scheme) larger awards we be repayable as and when you can afford to do so and again will feed back into the pot to help others.
The only criteria is that you must be kinky and committed to completing the course or project that you are applying to have funded.
The awards will be confidential and discrete with payment being made via bank transfer upon acceptance/funding of your proposal. Applications will be accepted at each LAM with funding announced just prior to the next event to those who are successful. We aim to fund at least one application per event but will manage the fund as best as we can given the applications made.
I hope you will all put your thinking caps on and help spread the word so we can all help each other as it were.
David
| 27 Jan 12, 1:10 PM EricStanton UK(BD), 11 yrs  |
Phenomenal. What a great opportunity. The older I get the more I recall... how little I knew when I knew it all. Edited 27 Jan 12, 1:11 PM by EricStanton | |
| 27 Jan 12, 1:19 PM hollythedolly UK(NN), 2 yrs  |
Brilliant . Is this opportunity restricted to just the London community | |
| 27 Jan 12, 1:40 PM Cosmic1 UK(SW), 7 yrs £  |
I would hope that other events might look at doing the same locally but we will asses the situation on a case by case basis. David
London Alternative Market - the place to be on the first Sunday of the month | |
| 27 Jan 12, 1:41 PM Cosmic1 UK(SW), 7 yrs £ |
Thanks, its all part of that giving something back that I have always wanted to see in my events. David
London Alternative Market - the place to be on the first Sunday of the month | |
| 27 Jan 12, 1:45 PM Ama_Sidero UK(GU), 7 yrs       |
What a wonderful idea. Fantastic.  @Play_Space - Next party is Friday, February 3, 2012 and the first Friday of every month! | |
| 27 Jan 12, 1:58 PM scarlettsamm UK(BL), 6 yrs |
BIG BIG LIKE  and Lady Stardust sang her songs, of..... Edited 27 Jan 12, 1:59 PM by scarlettsamm | |
| 27 Jan 12, 2:00 PM Amante_Velora UK(SW), 22 mths  |
That is indeed phenomenal. ***Disclaimer: I accept no liability for the content of this post, or for the consequences of any misconstruction taken on the basis of the information provided, unless that information is subsequently confirmed in writing. Please do not ask for credit as a punch in the mouth will often offend*** | |
| 27 Jan 12, 2:17 PM carenza_lionheart UK(NN), 24 mths  |
Wow! But with my smallprint head on (blame years of telcoms marketing jobs) - how do you define kinky in the qualifying process? How do people prove it? (Sorry, old habits die hard - it's a wonderful thing to be doing, I just would hate to see the ideals of it exploited because the smallprint wasn't tight enough) The one who claims to be innocent - who wants to test the claim? | |
| 27 Jan 12, 2:17 PM angellover UK(CM), 3 yrs |
Great Idea... If i can help in any way please contact me.
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The highest fences we have to climb, are those we have built within our mind | |
| 27 Jan 12, 2:21 PM Cosmic1 UK(SW), 7 yrs £ |
As its only being mentioned through kink sites I think its safe to say that only kinksters will apply. Each application will be vetted and checked to make sure that the funding is genuine (by checking up on the course or need) and we will also check the person. Basically if someone asks for £500 a few days after joining IC or Fetlife and don't appear to have a network or much of a profile then its more than likley going to be rejected. However from the conversations I have had with people before announcing this there are more than enough candidates to help who are known kinky people but this is not to say that you have to be a "personality" to apply. David London Alternative Market - the place to be on the first Sunday of the month |
