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EDC used Campsie Youth funds in Lennoxtown charity to clear the Celtic SLA when Campsie FC needed an all weather pitch

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

The NHS Greater Glasgow & Clyde Financial Disaster that is the Lennox Castle Hospitals deals

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

Celtic were buying Lennoxtown and needed to get out of Westthorn Sale Agreement. Claimed Financial Reasons.

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

East Dunbartonshire gave Lennoxtown Initiative carte blanche to run up debts allowing Celtic SLA to keep paying

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 raids Lennoxtown Initiative’s Capital & Campsie Youth funds to bail out Celtic SLA Deficit

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

Last year Thomas Glen East Dunbartonshire’s Depute Chief Executive was economical with the truth in answering Jo Swinson MP

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

Evidence in The Lennoxtown Initiative 2010 Minutes that Directors knew charity would not have enough funds for Celtic Service Level Agreement

  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

East Dunbartonshire Council progressing winding up of Lennoxtown Initiative charity which is heavily indebted, 50% from Celtic SLA payments

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

Celtic’s agreement with Charity leaves it in Debt. Companies House wish to Windup the Charity. Then Ratepayers will wear the Debt write-off of £327,825

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

Want to see what the Celtic SLA was supposed to deliver? Every year for 9 years.

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