Scrooge aims to empower communities.

1. “What’s Christmas time to you but a time for finding yourself a
year older, but not an hour richer. Every idiot who goes about with
‘Merry Christmas’ on his lips, should be boiled with his own
pudding, and buried with a stake of holly through his heart.
Community empowerment?
Humbug, why do we have prisons and workhouses?
A whole day off for Christmas? I suppose you must – but be early
the next day to make up.

2. The first ghost – Scrooge’s
dead partner Jacob Marley.
“You are fettered,” said
Scrooge, trembling. “Tell me
why?”
“I wear the chain I forged in
life. Each link a person I put in
debt”.
“I am here to-night to warn
you, that you have yet a
chance and hope of escaping
my fate.”

3. Scrooge followed to the
window: desperate in his
curiosity. He looked out.
The air was filled with
phantoms, wandering hither
and thither in restless haste,
and moaning as they went.
Every one of them wore chains
like Marley’s Ghost; some few
(they might be guilty Councils)
were linked together; none
were free.

4. The ghost of Christmas past
takes Scrooge to his boyhood.
“The school is not quite
deserted,” said the Ghost. “A
solitary child, neglected by his
friends, is left there still.”
Scrooge said he knew it. And
he sobbed.

5. The spirit showed
another, more
merry Christmas.
The party provided
by Scrooge’s first
employer – Mr
Fezziweg who was
loved and respected
by his staff.

6. The ghost of Christmas
past shows him the girl
he might have married
but turned down for
“Gain”.
Years later the girl is
seen grown up as a
happy mother
celebrating with her
family.
Scrooge is unable to
bear any more and
slams an “extinguisher
cap” on the spirit.

7. “Come in!” exclaimed the Ghost of
Christmas Present. “Come in! and
know me better, man!”
They see Bob Cratchit’s family at
dinner. “Spirit,” said Scrooge, with
an interest he had never felt
before, “tell me if Tiny Tim will live.”
“I see a vacant seat,” replied the
Ghost, “in the poor chimney-corner,
and a crutch without an owner,
carefully preserved. If these
shadows remain unaltered by the
Future, the child will die.”

8. The Ghost of Christmas
Present brought two
children; wretched, abject,
frightful, hideous,
miserable.
This boy is Ignorance.
This girl is Want.
“Have they no refuge or
resource?” cried Scrooge.
“Are there no prisons?”
said the Spirit, turning on
him for the last time with
his own words. “Are there
no workhouses?”

9. “I am in the presence of the
Ghost of Christmas Yet To
Come?” said Scrooge.
Scrooge read upon the stone
of the neglected grave his own
name,
EBENEZER SCROOGE

10. “I will live in the Past,
the Present, and the
Future!” Scrooge
repeated, as he
scrambled out of bed.
“The Spirits of all
Three shall strive
within me.
My capital
ambition shall
be
spend,
share and
be merry with
all my fellows.”