Healthcare Management, Member of the respond flexibly The design looked not unlike the Faversham Eye logo or even, some say, the famous masonic all-seeing eye. (Social Services Strategic Planning). . Published by MHNA 1989 Guidance and Regulations, adapted to the Isle Until a group of local councillors decided they knew better. has been extended for a further year to include a Ouch. a change of David said: "Very pleased with the result. Other members included local journalist Mark Gardner of the Faversham News. The objectives of the Bensteds charity were set out in the original trust deed. Social Services Professionals (Jessica Kingsley He said that he had lived in Faversham for 42 years, and that he was the St Ann's Ward Councillor. . This cannot be spent without the written permission of the Charity Commissioners. And the Barley Mow gift shop has had to leave Court Street temporarily while repairs are carried out. According to Swale, its councillors were all involved in personal capacity. According to their 2018 accounts, which are publicly available on the Charity Commission website, they had investments worth just short of 1 million, yet over the last seven years they have averaged less than 14,000 a year in charitable grants. In 1948, the Poor Laws were finally abolished. In another email Cosgrove had told Westlake: Think this links with the Independents. Even as its contractors, Blenwood, were digging up remaining plants, Swale Borough Council purported to to be in the dark about the committees plans. As the estimated final bill continued to rise to 130,000, the committee was told that cash had been received from waste management company Biffa. benchmarking tool, the negotiation of a package from a He answered No comment and was released over an hour later. Promoting shared Gatefield House, built in the 1860s, was at the heart of Favershams social life. The Faversham workhouse was closed in 1929 and the building became a Public Assistance Institution under the control of Kent County Council. View Mike Cosgrove results including current phone number, address, relatives, background check report, and property record with Whitepages. Evaluation of the Once they got to the station, the police behaviour became even more bizarre. For example if part of a project requires children's services plan Not all members were councillors or council employees however. Facilitative and The night that the police decided to take no further action against John Wellard, Councillor (now Mayor) Trevor Abram emailed Nigel Kay saying: there is also a constant daily diatribe of acrimonious accusations against the actions of the Council in social media, which allowed to continue unchallenged could easily cost any of us our seats on May 7. In the last four years, Bensteds has given 73,526 in charitable grants, 32,500 of this went to the War Memorial. Andrew Osborne, whose father had been a chaplain at the old peoples home challenged this, pointing out to the Charity Commission that the site was governed by the original trust deed from 1835. the internet and social care, negotiation and social It is far from clear what authority it had to evict the community gardeners. Internal documents (available here) recently obtained from Faversham Town Council, under Data Protection legislation, reveal the council's inner workings and the extraordinary behaviour of the Kent Police. But over time the garden, once used to grow veg for hospital patients, became neglected and overgrown. Top 250 Movies Most Popular Movies Top 250 TV Shows Most Popular TV Shows Most Popular Video Games Most Popular Music Videos Most Popular Podcasts. Member of identification of unit Swale Borough Council Faversham's representatives. The Friends is a registered charity. voluntary adoption service. When challenged, the officer said he did not need a search warrant as he had made an arrest. In September, waste management company Viridor donated 20,000, which would pay for more than 500 names to be carved into the gardens stonework 377 from WW1 and 174 from WWII at a cost of 40 per name. Its official purposes are: To mobilise, encourage, foster and maintain the interest of the public in the patients and the support of the work of Faversham Cottage Hospital and community health centres by means of voluntary services.. particular task View the profiles of people named Mike Cosgrove. They had something grander and more military in mind, even if it meant tearing up the garden and moving the Grade II-listed cross. In November 2015, comments books were left in the Alexander Centre, the Faversham Library and St Marys Church. The case law on harassment is clear. Instead, the centerpiece of the new memorial garden would be a giant, grey vertical monolith. After the Beauty Spot salon in West St was destroyed by fire, it carried on operating in one of the Alexander Centres rooms. completion of the main manual, wrote a "brief case Yet oddly, Cosgroves committee were told only 60 comments were received in total. Delicious dishes at low prices are provided . They spent ,2000 of this the following year. adviser, 1999 - Another cash injection was announced: from Bensteds Charities. To be fair, the gardens future upkeep is unlikely to overstretch public finances. Health Authorities and Primary Care Trusts (MNW, Chairman Cosgrove and core members David Simmons and Anita Walker were all Swale councillors, while assorted council officers from both Swale and Faversham Town Council were drafted in to assist. Prior to becoming an independent consultant, Andrew held the posts of Director of Consultancy . The War Memorial project was driven by five prominent local Conservatives, all of whom were Trustees of Bensteds. comprehensive service for elderly people; integration of In four years between 2013 and 2019, it gave 96,356 in grants. According to Simmons, the war memorial committee of which he was vice-chairman asked for more than 5,000. Young Janet's background is in social work with families and children. Mr. Cosgrove then attended Loyola University School of Law, where he was a member of the Phi Alpha Delta Fraternity, International. The Assembly Rooms transferred their Saturday concerts here after their fire. So said Vice Admiral Sir Hugh Evan-Thomas when he officially opened Favershams WW1 memorial on 3 November 1922. . He has development of a Mike Cosgrove is known for Alien Ant Farm: Movies (2001), Alien Ant Farm: Smooth Criminal (2001) and Dystopia Tonight with John Poveromo (2021). Mike Cosgrove Digital Partner Support Manager at the NHS Humber and North Yorkshire Health and Care Partnership Kingston upon Hull, England Metropolitan Area City Health Care Partnership CIC, +2. activities including quality assesment are part of his The fact that its modern has proved a bonus, because it can be dressed up for a wedding, then cleared for dancing lessons or a wrestling match. It was classed as income balance carried forward., In an answer to an email from the Faversham Eye, Sue Bayford, the Clerk to the Trustees explained that the Trustees only pay out charitable funds on receipt of a copy invoice from the organisation/individual to prove that the money is being spent correctly, and/or until they have been able to secure the balance of funds required to complete the project., When the charity prepares the end of year accounts these pledges for future spending are put into income balance carried forward. This also includes funds set aside for administration, portfolio management fees and other everyday expenses. The Alexander Centres Gatefield Hall hosts everything from weddings . By 2018, there was 53,439 carried over at the end of the year. "Driving across England to Shripshire (sic), seeing the awful creep of new housing development across the countryside. The lead police officer arrested him for collective harassment, a phrase he later repeated to one of Johns neighbours who came round shortly afterwards. Not all members were councillors or council employees however. Now, over a century later, it is called The Alexander Centre. to Radio 4s Gardeners Question Time . Switzerland, Hungary, Bulgaria, and Ireland. Swale didnt yet own the garden. Eight years later when the market was falling Bensteds sold the land next door at 475,000 a hectare, ten times the price. (NCVCCO). And worse. And, as one of the largest halls in Kent, it keeps Faversham in the running for big community events, such as the Swale Heritage Fair. On April 24, 2015, six police officers marched into the house where John Wellard lives. In 2014, the Faversham War Memorial Project Group met in the Mayors Parlour. The books current whereabouts are unknown but the Faversham Eye has photographs of every page. In all, the War Memorial committee raised 206,000. Supervision and Management, Associate Member every case the Given that at least 80 of the comments were unequivocally against the scheme, its hard to see how this alleged majority is mathematically possible. wrote Best From 1978 - 1988 he was a Senior Lecturer (later a Principal Lecturer) in Management at the Business School of the University of Glamorgan. He argues that the town needed it as Faversham was one of the few towns which did not have a memorial naming its dead. Its a difficult decision to make, because they are in an exceptionally poor state. It was mainly used as council offices, with rooms carved up into cubicles by plasterboard and ceilings lowered to house lighting and cables. business plan, a robust financial analysis, the In response to one email requesting specific details about environmental impact reports, stonework and tenders, he swerved: Thank you for your email and interest in this project that may have come following the Remembrance display of crosses. Disregarding War Memorials Trusts earlier warnings about potential damage, Cosgrove and committee proposed holding 25,000 back for another bid to move the original granite cross, agreeing: It would be useful to build up a reserve for the second phase.. Peter Binnie, a wedding photographer, was appointed project manager at chairman Cosgroves suggestion. people with learning disabilities. Faversham Borough Council originally bought Gatefield House from Lady Alexander in 1943. Publishers). Families were separated, the food was dreadful and in Andover it was reported that inhabitants starved to death. For many years Cottage Hospital staff, patients and their visitors have used the garden when weather conditions permit., Simmons continued: The donation was made with the restriction that it must be used to make the new pathway fully disabled access compliant using non slip materials. Mike Henderson (ind) Mike Cosgrove Nigel Kay Ted Wilcox David Simmons Bryan Mulhern Anita Walker See next week's Faversham News for full coverage and pictures. Cosgrove wanted the carefully-tended plant beds replaced with a gravelled oval for Remembrance Day parades. Mike Cosgrove spoke in tribute to Colin Sharpe. See next week's Faversham News for full coverage and pictures. followed by a three year period as a senior administrator in Higher Education. Best Value Social Its about as inviting as a mausoleum. He is co-author of: Analysis of Councillor's Guide to planning services for Again, the response could not have been clearer. The letters were to be deplored concurred Cosgrove and his committee, as if questioning their design choices somehow constituted an appalling insult to the fallen. to you That is a matter of taste and personally, he says he likes it. strategic problems. Bensteds then sold the land to John Mowlem Homes for 475,000, having had to knock 40,000 off the price because of the further deterioration of the site caused by the delays when Swale rejected two planning applications. Local residents wish to see the property redesigned to create plinths with the names of almost 400 soldiers who were killed in the two world wars as well as relocating the war memorial to provide an enhanced war memorial., Charity Trustees often have to make decisions which may appear surprising to those not in possession of the full facts, he replied to our request for the full facts. The cost of building was 166,000, leaving a surplus of 40,000. It would go on to pour a total of 32,700 into the scheme. contact Until the War Memorial project came along, the focus was on the future not the present. The duty solicitor summed it up, telling John Wellard, this is a load of f***ing bollocks!. was Area Director. Chiragh dumped his body by the roadside in west London. residential services for children; services for drugs and Facebook gives people the power to share and makes the world more open and connected. Creating The Council is shorthand for a number of civic upheavals. Worcestershire Family Support Project (in practice of As Chairman of Bensteds, Andrew Osborne says, quite rightly, that although the charity could spend the money, morally it must be spent on War Memorial projects. costs, with public, cases, Royal Holloway, Gates, was also a Kent county councillor, longstanding local freemason and president of the Faversham Royal British Legion branch. One neighbour was former town councillor Trevor Payne, another was town councillor Geoff Wade and the third was youve guessed our old friend former town councillor and mayor, Bensteds Charity chairman and prominent local freemason, Bro Andrew Osborne. And Faversham town councillors including Cosgrove, Walker and Simmons approved a 450 donation to the Royal British Legion to buy wooden crosses for the memorial garden which, by November, was a muddy mess. Horrified at the new memorials disproportionate dimensions and brutalist appearance, some wrote to the Faversham News calling it an eyesore and a Stalinistic abortion. Aside from the risk that such a donation might deter people from giving in future, spending charity funds on the wrong purposes is a serious matter. We asked Mike Cosgrove but he declined to answer. But eyebrows were raised when Cosgrove told the, Osborne wrote: It is clear that the author of the letter from the War Memorials Trust has no qualifications in either architecture or landscaping, more importantly has not visited the site, has no knowledge of the history of the memorial and is probably only regurgitating the objections of those who have taken over the land for their own personal enjoyment.. The cash mountain increased by 144,073 between 2013 and 2018, from 783,267 to 925,340. The memorial, a modest cross to commemorate local men who fell in the First World War, was placed at the corner of the Cottage Hospitals garden on Stone Street. But from 1943 to 2012, The Alexander Centres fine plasterwork and high ceilings were hidden under plasterboard and strip lighting. Bensteds took in all the donations, claimed the charity tax relief and it is listed as a separate item in their accounts. 1990 - 1995. That is not the case. So, without any evidence linking him to the posters and envelopes, they decided to have pensioner John Wellard arrested. wrote the guide Mr. Cosgrove attended the University of California, Los Angeles for his undergraduate degree, graduating cum laude. Published by MHNA Publications. . Looking out over Faversham from the attics in the the Alexander Centre. Blackwell informal . Favershams premier surrealist web publication. for the NHS Staff College Wales, Head of Management Development, MCS, Welsh Health Common Services Authority, and Director of Welsh Health Development International, an overseas health consultancy operated from within the NHS. papers and run management courses and seminars in many In our defence, we would like to point out that, in the interests of accuracy, we have tried to contact Mr Cosgrove on many occasions requesting all manner of information. Instead youre obliged to face a grandiose monument to arrogance, a self-important symbol of contempt for the community. They even threatened to withhold funding for the the long-promised creek bridge if their plan was voted out. The anticipated Heritage Lottery Fund grant was declined but Favershams Bensteds Charity gifted more cash. Users, Updating complete When asked why it needed six officers, the police said because we were told to expect trouble. Once it became clear that a violent riot was not imminent, four of the officers left in their Land Rover. Where did the rest of the 150,000 budget come from, let alone the 25,000 reserved for a future attempt to move the memorial? Which begs the question: if there was insufficient evidence to charge John Wellard five days after his arrest, what reasonable grounds were there to arrest him in the first place and on his birthday? recruitment and selection, performance management, together with serious incident enquiries. The building was owned and run by the Council. Following the revelations in the last Eye, Selling Parish council has now been boosted by a new member, David Woollett, co-opted but not elected According to the new rinky dink parish website he has had a long and varied career with life experiences that will enhance the capability of the Council immeasurably. Can this be the same David Woollett who was the subject of a complaint to Donna Price, the Monitoring Officer at Swale Borough Council back in 2017, after he turned up at the local churchs parish room unannounced with the current acting clerk and councillor, Amanda Saunders to inspect some council documents? We have been overwhelmed by the heartwarming response from many residents across Faversham.. Praised by Cosgrove for his first-rate excellent press liaison support, Gardners PR efforts resulted in favourable local newspaper coverage. He is a Andrew is an experienced and respected management development consultant and health service manager, with 28 years public sector experience, including 9 years as a self-financing consultant. Yet Swale had pulled the plug on the gardens 1,579 annual maintenance budget years before, precisely because volunteers were doing the work for free. command structure; Of best value; Of the theory and And public support or rather the almost total lack of it remained a problem. Yet another email from Westlake to Cosgrove quotes comments made at a public meeting and online by a member of the public about the Neighbourhood Plan. Underneath the dreary cream plasterboard lay Victorian and Edwardian ceiling cornices and high skirting boards. The first task was to renovate the building. Conditions were made to be deliberately very harsh to discourage people from wanting to receive help. This fuzzy, informal, unofficial status meant Cosgroves war memorial committee could remain largely exempt from scrutiny while still enjoying council funding, support staff and the use of council premises. seminars on planning In February, after failing to persuade the War Memorials Trust to about turn, Cosgrove and committee changed tack. And the people were not impressed. British That is the big difference between being owned by an independent body and being run by the Government. So far Kent Police have stonewalled John Wellards requests for information under the Data Protection Act. However, there is no other building which is so large, central and versatile. Driving across England to Shripshire (sic), seeing the awful creep of new housing development across the countryside. We must not let this continue.. John Wellards quote, borrowed from the Pythons, No one expects the Spanish Inquisition! appears in print everywhere alongside the mocked-up satirical posters, one featuring notoriously publicity-friendly councillor Mike Cosgrove riding a toy donkey to his next photo opportunity. Meeting in September, councillors Tom Gates and Mike Cosgrove agreed to write to Bensted's trustees - which included Tom Gates and Mike Cosgrove - thanking themselves for their own generosity. Hundreds fought it out for those all important seats and with an unexpected flurry of independent and Ukip candidates standing, it all came down to tonight's count (Friday). But their emails and letters got nowhere. Four of them were Councillors, Andrew Bowles, Anita Walker, Tom Gates and Mike Cosgrove. Young Persons Act 2001, Isle of Man [with Janet and Mike Several comments slated the project as an absurd waste of taxpayers cash. Institute of Management Consultants, Member of the It has returned to its entertaining roots, hosting weddings, parties, jazz evenings and gigs, as well as fairs and workshops. The Trust added baffles to the high ceiling, so the sound is now sorted. The Land Registrys squatters rights application form ST1 specifically asks for details of the use made of the land by others. They called themselves a community led group but, in reality, they were a committee dominated by Conservative councillors and council officers. A Theres so much we want to ask you. Development Sometimes they have Architect Nigel Lee Evans oversaw the structural refurbishments, planning permissions and acoustics work for the Gatefield Hall. Many of them will also use or return to local shops and eateries. Fortunately, an eagle-eyed council official rescued it from a skip. Leading interior designer, Sue Timney, advised on colour schemes and materials. Each year since 2015, the set aside has grown. It was lest we forget their sons, brothers, husbands and fathers who went to war and never came back. Eight years ago, however, a group of local people began tidying the site, planting trees and fruit bushes, seeds and bulbs. Moving the memorial wasnt so important after all, they decided. This allows us to What rankles with the Bensteds Trustees is this: KCC sold a chunk of the land to themselves in a rising market at a rate of 45,112 a hectare. residential care policy for adults; financial management Join Facebook to connect with Mike Cosgrove and others you may know. Gatefield Hall was once a vast sauna-style room, with gloomy pine walls and appalling acoustics. within a Children's Services Plan; family conferences in "@OwenPaterson @ray_basssett Offer Eire a return into the UK." Filled with colour, it attracted visitors and wildlife. current), Wrote Meeting the More worried about Duchy of Cornwall's plan to build 2500 houses on grade 1 and 2 agrucultural land at Faversham." She held parties, concerts and recitals in what was then called Gatefield House. Services He felt Faversham was his . The police then started to search the house, even though it does not belong to John Wellard. (current, with Keith As the row became even more bitter, KCC suggested that Swale Borough should run the charity. A peace garden seemed a far better way to remember the fallen and look forward to a better future without war.. Mike has over 20 years experience as a management consultant, including 10 years working with not-for- profit With the 2015 local elections just months away, the actions of Faversham's councillors had cost them a great deal of trust. The Alexander Centre Trust (TACT) was set up, chaired by Hilary Riva. Not only did the key Bensteds trustees drive the project, the charity was used to handle the money. We can focus expertise on a Our Education Directory has everything you could possibly need! alcohol misuse; primary criterion is to add capacity and value to the He undertakes assignments in both the public and voluntary sectors as Bensteds started life in 1835 as the Faversham workhouse, a particularly hateful Victorian institution founded on the belief that if people were poor it was their own fault because they were lazy, stupid or feckless or any combination of the three. Sue Timney pronounced it a good example of mid-century modern Danish-influenced design and recommended stylish neutral tones of paint. FAVERSHAM FOOTPATHS GROUP MINUTES OF AGM ON 15 NOVEMBER 2018 The Group's third AGM was held at 7.30pm on 15 November 2018 in the Jubilee Room at the . But little was known about the secret machinations behind it. The design looked not unlike the, In the library alone, more than 80 comments were against the scheme, many fiercely so. Nobody did. In 2017 and 2018, when the charity started making substantial donations to the War Memorial it spent 10,214 more than it earned in income. Ouch. service for children and parents in public law Following Fletcher). Swale Borough Council leader Andrew Bowles was also on board but mostly absent from meetings. Lady Alexander was probably the closest thing Faversham had to a great Edwardian hostess. And its brought jobs into the town. But Trevor accepted the results and lost his seat on Faversham Town Council. APPROVAL OF MINUTES OF AGM ON 9 NOVEMBER 2017 In The councillors then met informally and decided that the satirical posters were a criminal matter, that John Wellard was responsible and should be prosecuted. When we asked for missing minutes of their meetings under Freedom of Information rules, Swale Borough Council refused. 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