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The co-director of Operation Black Vote Simon Woolley has urged the African Caribbean Community in Luton not to "sit down and take" council cutbacks to their lunch clubs. The authority currently spends over 拢34,000 a year on them and eventually wants to withdraw their funding by 2016. But ex Councillor Norris Bullock, who has been involved in lunch clubs in Luton for decades, says the impact on the elderly will be far greater than the savings the council makes. The authority has told 麻豆社 3CR that all Black and Minority Ethnic lunch clubs will be affected and it will help them find alternative sources of funding. But cuts to BME services are not just confined to Luton. Councils across the country are doing the same as they look to balance their budgets. In this clip Simon tells Nesta McGregor the situation in Luton fills him with despair.
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