A billion pounds?

[ciphergoth]

babysimon: "You could do a lot of good with £1bn"

How would you spend a billion pounds in order to do good? You can't spend it on yourself or your friends.

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[ladycat.livejournal.com]

I'd purchase and open a one stop shop violence against women crisis service in London.

I'd also develop an a research section. They would develop accredited training courses on a range of VAW issues which could be offered to voluntary and statutory agencies. Money from the course would support the running of the centre in future and the research would evaluate the model and offer evidence for future funding proposals and rolling out the model across the UK.

Not sure 1 million would stretch more than a year!

[ciphergoth.livejournal.com]

That's a plausible use for a million - but you've got a thousand times that much to spend!

[ladycat.livejournal.com]

Then it would be an international programme with country specific adaptations of the services. Every country would have an additional campaigning arm :-)