Kemp's jig continues

Is there no limit to the mayhem that the Kennet and Avon Canal Trust's blagging-blogger, Terry Kemp, can cause along the length of the K&A Canal?

He has just announced that after spending countless thousands of pounds of grant money on the PACT Centre in Pewsey to provide an art gallery, meeting rooms and IT access for villagers, the Pewsey Area Community Trust, of which he is a leading light, is to sack its staff and shut up shop after only three years.

Happily for Kemp this will not leave him idle as his jig continues along the canal to Honeystreet. He is also a leading light in the Barge Inn Community Project that has just got £270,000 from the village SOS project run by the BBC and the Big Lottery Fund.

They intend to use the money to buy the lease of the pub. Heaven help this popular canalside pub - because if Kemps previous ventures are anything to go by it will not be long before that folds in chaos.

Alongside this venture he has his business 'Facilitating People' (www.facilitatingpeople.co.uk) which he runs with former BW cronies. Strangely if you want to volunteer with Kennet and Avon Canal Trust you have to email "terry.kemp@facilitatingpeople.co.uk" and not the Trust's offices in Devizes.

Could it be that Mr Kemp sees himself as the volunteering supremo in the BW/K&A Trust alliance that he, General Manager, Mike Rodd and absentee Chairman, David Rees are trying to engineer? I think perhaps he does and I wonder what Rees and Rodd are hoping is in it for them.