Discussion of how a focus on real wealth and citizenship can help people stay stronger and more active as citizens as they get older or if they have a disability

1. Unlocking our Imaginations
Talk for Northamptonshire: June 2010
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4. Are we investing in services
or in people & communities?

5. Putting money into fixed services
often guarantees waste and inefficiency?

6. When people are in control they
make better use of their own ‘real wealth’

7. When we aim at something positive - like
citizenship - we grow support, community
and energy

8. The best forms of support often don’t look
like support - information, connections,
access

10. There are eight degrees of charity, one
higher than the other.
The highest degree, exceeded by none, is
that of the person who assists a poor Jew by
providing him with a gift or loan or by
accepting him into a business partnership or
by helping him find employment - in a word,
by putting him where he can dispense with
other people's aid.
With reference to such aid, it is said, “You
shall strengthen him, be he a stranger or a
settler, he shall live with you” (Lev. 25:35),
which means strengthen him in such manner
that his falling into want is prevented.
Maimonides - 12th Century

11. Contact Details
Simon Duffy
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