What sort of ancestor will you be?

WE recently met the vibrant and energising Charlotte Brooks of LocalMotion Lincoln and came away with a a feast of food for thought. LocalMotion is one of six projects nationally aiming to look the reasons we have poverty in our cities and come up with sustainable ways of breaking down those barriers to prosperity (page 3, Lincoln Independent July edition). Part of that process is asking very pertinent questions including the one in our headline. So if in 70 years’ time one of your grandchildren or great grandchildren asked you about some of the decisions you’ve made in your life what would you be able to tell them?

It would be a mixed bag for most of us - some good, some mistakes and some bad decisions made for the right reasons at the time. However, if you’re getting to a certain age, like us, you’d like to think you’ve come up with well thought out decisions and the impact they have on those who come after us. When the business wife and I took over this magazine we only thought about working together and using the skills we’d acrrued over the years to do the best job possible. There was no consideration for any legacy-type influence.

But it wasn’t long before we started to feel a sense of responsibility to the communities we served.

We’d like to be able tell our ancestors that we published magazines with community at their heart and our core mission was to inform, enrich and connect.

Find out more next month.

Our congratulations and commiserations to everyone involved in Lincoln’s 1940s weekend. BIG organised a fabulous event and the city got behind the vibe...then the heavens opened. People still had a great time it and we hope they’ll be back next year. It would be nice to be able to order some sunshine though.

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