Chatterley Whitfield?

[Valiant Haze]

Mr Lloyd had actually been a Trustee of Port Vale FC Community for several months before the official appointment. The delay in submitting the appropriate paperwork was due to a prolonged illness within the Finance Department of the Club, the member of staff involved was the only one with the passwords required to upload new information to Companies House website. When the information was recovered, I was the Trustee that took over the Company Secretary Role and thus added the information.

 

Hope that answers one question ...

 

An illness to a member of staff of the club's finance dept or the INDEPENDENT Trust's dept?

 

Are you saying the independent trust is dependent on the co-operation of the club?

[Barcroft]

May I introduce myself I am the Community Trust Manager at Port Vale FC a role I have performed for 20 years now, I have read with interest all the comments relating to this thread and felt compelled to add to the debate. Regarding the community building extension (new gym) this project has rolled on far too long and is a constant frustration to me, however I intend to access the required funding this year to complete the project so that everyone benefits particularly the many disadvantaged groups who visit us on a weekly basis to take part in sport/exercise and socialisation sessions.

 

The extension was never intended to be where it is and drawings were made to take the existing building forward on one level towards the main road to provide flexible space for education, coffee morning, residents meetings etc however our former chairman BB intercepted this plan and had his own drawings to take the building sideways, when I insisted that insufficient funds were available to do this because of the drop on the side of the building he insisted that he could do xy and z to complete the project, reluctantly because of his background in property development I accepted ( although I had no choice anyway).

 

You may draw your own conclusions as to why he wanted to go sideways........when the funding ran out the official line was that the site needed more piling than was initially expected, he then walked away and left me with a building site.

 

Regarding CW the site the lease is owned by the Trust for 25 years, we intend to develop the site for community recreation purposes however our well meaning intentions were derailed by our former chairman BB and his able assistant GM, after twelve months of planning by me. Several professionals including Bill Chetwynd (Vale Youth Development) the club Physio, the FA, Scott Lawton (Local Boxer) the architects made a value contribution to the overall design and planning of the facilities, I attended a meeting at the Civic Centre with City Council representatives to try and gain their blessing and avoid wasting valuable time further down the road.

 

Before attending the meeting I asked our former chairman BB to accompany me as a representative of the club, he declined because he said his diary would not allow him to and suggested I went on my own, the outcome of the meeting was that the council overwhelmingly gave their blessing to our proposals and it was shortly after this that BB and GM began to have meeting behind my back although people were ringing me out of loyalty to update me about their plans.....on one occasion the architects rang me to tell me that BB had scrapped all the drawings that myself and all the other stakeholders had agreed and that he submitted his own version of what the building and outside recreations would look like.

 

The outcome of all this skullduggery is that in more than twelve months of my absence (20 meetings in total without my attendance) no further progress has been made on the site and that it was used as a pawn in a game intended to attract new owners to the club which we all know failed miserably.

 

The CW project came about following a chance conversation between myself and a CISWO representative at a staffs fa meeting and that is why I was the driving force behind the project, as for the future my current priority is to complete the building site that is the community extension then focus on cw after consulting with KR about his plans for the club and the community trust.

 

I apologise that this response ended up a bit like War and Peace but felt that I needed to fully inform you something I have been unable to do while the previous owners were still in situ, my relationship with the Vale fans has always been a good one and in fact I developed many of the mid to late twenties supporters during the halycon days of the early nineties through my soccer schools.

 

I hope this has been a useful read and you can be assured that whatever problems the club experience we are still providing a positive image of the football club through the many and varied activities we deliver to the communities of north staffordshire and south and east cheshire.

 

Cheers for that... I am one of those mid-20s kids who you got involved with the Vale to soccer schools.

 

Yet more evidence which shows that BB and other former board members only looked after their own interests. They were a bunch of scrotes, basically.

 

One thing I disagree with though is that they attempted to use the development to bring in new 'owners' to the club. I think it is far more plausible that they intended to attract new 'investors', and retain power themselves.

 

I'm glad that lot are finally gone.

[go4goal]

I know it is now many years after this last post but I have only just come across this whilst searching for something else. So let me intrroduce myself and I can tell you that I was the person who initially started off and was directly involved in facilitating the AWM grant and its development subsequently, or in this case lack of. Having only just read doghandlers (aka JC) post I have never seen such a complete fabrication in all my days as this. The club own the building and in order to facilitate the gr a nt it put into place a peppercorn lease to the Community. All surveying work and building investigations were undertaken by an independant specialst appointed notby anyone connected with theclub but AWM

The next pa r t is thecrux , the grant money was then paid to the community I to its bank account, all control of its development and spending was not done by the clubs board but solely by the community manager.

This over the next few years after the initial token effort to appear to be using the grant as given was then absorbed and used by the community to keep the trust running but primarily to keep the community managers salary paid plus bonuses of pensions contributions, car etc . The present chairman soon sussed this out hence the confrontation at the beginning.

And now before anyone should try to reiterate this I will just sign off by saying that what is given here I can substantiate with evidence, ie bank statements, minutes etc which yes I still have in my possession !!!!!

[Heatwave]

If you're alleging any impropriety by the previous Board then pass it to Burslem Police as there's an ongoing investigation into its members.

[Robbie Earle's Perm]

If you're alleging any impropriety by the previous Board then pass it to Burslem Police as there's an ongoing investigation into its members.

 

Agreed I'd love to see JC face justice.

[Santa]

When the old Community Trust moved out of Vale Park and to the office in Hanley, reportedly the new trustees found out one or two things. Shortly afterwards, JC was no longer employed by them.

 

If you have any information/evidence of anything, there will be people interested because it's my understanding that certain parties are already looking into it.

[go4goal]

I have no problem with this and echo the comments posted after mine. However for obvious reasons I wish to be sure of who I give any info to. I have originals and copies and if necessary would be prepared to testify .

If this is of interest to anyone then please initially pm me with details of who and what their connection is etc and I will willing go from there.