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A CAMPAIGN group formed by members of Deepcar’s Lowood Club is demanding the committee open the books and reveal how much it is paying a company to advise it in its dispute with the former club steward and his wife.
The Lowood Club Steering Group is angry that club members have been denied access to the accounts, which will reveal how much the club committee has been paying the Manchester-based firm, Peninsula. It has not only been advising the club but also representing it at the Employment Tribunal brought by former club steward John Clayton and his wife Julie, which has now paused and will reconvene in January.
A Steering Group spokesman said: “This question has been asked on numerous occasions. The members knew nothing about this company until highlighted by the Steering Group.
“We ask why the committee feel the need to waste club monies on an expensive outside company who seem to be making the decisions that the committee should be making.” Secretary Brian Firth pledged to hold an Extraordinary General Meeting (EGM) once lockdown had been lifted but, despite Lowood Club Steering Group handing in a petition that should have forced the club to hold an EGM, Mr Firth and other senior members of the club committee have ignored
members’ wishes and have stayed silent over their failure to hold an EGM and allow members to question them over the sacking of John and Julie Clayton. At the Employment Tribunal the legal challenge faced by the club committee is not only in relation to the alleged wrongful dismissal of Mr and Mrs Clayton but also the bid to evict them from their living quarters during the pandemic. The Steering Group also wants answers as to why the club did not re-open after lockdown was lifted when Sheffield City Council has stated the club steward does not have to live at Lowood Club to be allowed to run the club.
