Why did East Dunbartonshire Council (EDC) take £33,360 that were earmarked in the Lennoxtown Initiative charity specially for Campsie Youth, to cover-up over-payments to Celtic FC, who have a multi-million pound training centre in Lennoxtown, via the Celtic Service Level Agreement? Note: Celtic’s training facility was approved by the East Dunbartonshire Council in a Greenbelt … Continue reading
Audit Scotland, given copies of the details below, refused to examine the financial disaster that is the sale and development of the former Lennox Castle Hospital lands by NHS Greater Glasgow & Clyde (NHSGGC). Somehow NHSGGC contrived to dispose of prime land, invest in housebuilding on another part while ending up with a large debt … Continue reading
Here is the District Valuer letter of 19 January 2005 talking about the Lease signed in June 2000 between Glasgow City Council and Celtic: Points to note are: Celtic claim to have invested £500,000 in Westthorn. Lease Agreement signed in June 2000 due to end in June 2005, 6 months away. Sale Agreement comes … Continue reading
Mutually Acceptable Arrangements for The Lennoxtown Initiative to run up Uncapped debt This excerpt is from the year ending 31 March 2011 Lennoxtown Initiative charity’s accounts on page 4. The key sentence reads: “Mutually acceptable arrangements have been entered into between the company and the Council and these sums will be reimbursed to the Council … Continue reading
East Dunbartonshire Council (EDC), who are ‘looking after’ The Lennoxtown Initiative charity, were only 20 months late in lodging the charity’s accounts for the Year Ending 31st March 2015. They were delivered just before Christmas 2016. You can see that EDC are clearing the decks in order to close the charity and bury the deception … Continue reading
When queries were being made 2015 about the operations of The Lennoxtown Initiative charity and the Celtic Service Level Agreement (Celtic SLA). Jo Swinson then a MP of East Dunbartonshire constituency wrote to East Dunbartonshire Council (EDC) enquiring about the latter. Here is a copy of Ms Swinson’s reply to one of her constituents given … Continue reading
The 2010 minutes of The Lennoxtown Initiative for the meeting are listed on the NHSGGC FOI website and demonstrates that: 1. The Directors of The Lennoxtown Initiative knew they were going into a state of insolvency 2. The most important aspect for the directors of the charity appears to be the payments to Celtic under … Continue reading
The above is the first part of the reply to a FOI request made to East Dunbartonshire Council (EDC) regarding their guarantee to fund The Lennoxtown Initiative (LI) charity’s debt. Firstly there is an admission that EDC is ‘working with LI with a view to formalising the wind up of the organisation’. Seconding the admission that … Continue reading
As can be seen above from The Lennoxtown Initiative accounts for year ending 31 March 2014, the Celtic SLA project which was supposed to benefit the ratepayers of East Dunbartonshire has left the charity in debt to the tune of £166,834. The Restricted Funds are for specific purposes and the Celtic SLA is the only … Continue reading
Under FoI we were able to get a copy of the Lennoxtown Initiative Project Development Group paper titled ‘Service Level Agreement between Lennoxtown Initiative and Celtic PLC‘ dated December 2005. This document was used as the basis to calculate the Payment Schedule contained in Part 2 of the SLA Agreement which was signed by the Lennoxtown … Continue reading