The Crosstalk Foundation is about the communication of people's feelings, opinions and ideas. Focusing attention on areas that people feel can be improved and promoting ideas, together with reasoned argument, to try and achieve improvement in these areas. Working on behalf of people in general to try and demonstrate that all people can, and should, have a say in the way we manage our society today. Crosstalk is the leakage of information from one channel to another.

Highlighting Issues	Gauging Opinion
Indicating Preference	Communicating Information
Investigating Options	Suggesting Alternatives
Analysing Problems	Campaigning for Change

Listed on the site are some of the issues currently under the spotlight. Many people already support many of these issues, however, the aim of the Crosstalk Foundation is to highlight such issues with a view to measuring the strength of public opinion in order to gauge the best policy and most desirable course of action. As with many people, this we believe, is the way a true democracy should be managed. The list of issues is extensive and is being added to all the time. Some have in fact now been implemented. However, many problems are actually created by our social management, perhaps symptomatic of the fact that too many people in authority do what they like regardless of what the public feel.
 
The Crosstalk Foundation is based in Slade Green, which is located on the outer edge of London. Slade Green is a community island, cut off by the river Thames on one side and the Dartford to London, via Greenwich, line on the other. Slade Green and the surrounding areas have incurred many of the problems associated with today's social issues. The local authority is Bexley Council and over the years we have had many issues to be concerned about as a result of the way the local authority manages our affairs, often blatantly against the grain of commonsense and what people would like to see. Much of the correspondence on this website involves such local issues and expresses a certain frustration with the local authority's refusal to give credence to local opinion. We have had our money wasted, our facilities curtailed and congestion and parking problems compounded by inept traffic management, to mention just a part. This type of thing appears to be indicative of local authority behaviour up and down the whole country. One can find many instances of such issues on this website and, no doubt, many people will be able to relate to them because they will have suffered similar problems with their own local authority. This is where we feel it is time for a change. Local authorities and governments alike should spend our money on what we want, not on what we don't want. They should also be accountable and should listen to the people they are supposed to be serving (and who pay their wages), rather than bulldozing ahead in a pig-headed, know-it-all fashion, thereby, leaving the tax-paying public to have live with the often undesirable consequences, picking up the often undesirable pieces. It is certainly the belief of many that we could do with a change in the way we manage our affairs!!!