A New 5 Star Rogering From Wednesbury Celebrates!

Just when you thought this outfit was on the way out (owing taxpayers huge sums of rent) it seems they have found another mug organisation to fund them! And worse, they have also set up a mysterious organisation to serve [sic] Wednesbury called "5 Star Community Association" which no-one has ever heard of and which is, presumably, different from the commercial "5 Star Performance Academy" run by Richard Jones - son of Labour Councillors Ian and Olwen Jones, brother of Labour Councillor Steven Jones and partner of Richard McVittie who is scoring £105,000 from Sport England via the grant application which failed to mention the huge debts Wednesbury Celebrates were accumulating to us taxpayers.

They have now tapped The Health Lottery for £60,000 whilst still owing huge amounts of rent and havE been kicked out of Wednesbury Town Hall. And who the f*ck are "5 Star Community Association" any way?

The money has been paid from the lottery via this "community interest" outfit:

http://www.healthdesirecic.org.uk/

and here are the grants:

The first grant to WC is a re-run of the scheme they set up with £10,000 from the Big Lottery fund - again using public facilities but neglecting to pay the rent!

The second seems to offer the same as Richard Jones's private "5 Star Performance Academy".

Here is an email I have sent to "HealthDesires" and I have copied in the BBC who are taking an interest in the doings of Cllrs Jones, Costigan and Lloyd (the latter via Murray Hall who were supposed to have appointed Richard McVittie but refused to talk about it to the BBC):

"I write a community news blog covering Sandwell in the West Midlands and have been writing extensively on Wednesbury Celebrates - a highly secretive (!) "community association" and its failure to, at best, fail to declare its insolvency whilst making grant applications (this arises from their total failure to pay rent to the cash-strapped local authority for  the use of public property - they have recently been evicted from their base at Wednesbury Town Hall). 

The blog is at thesandwellskidder.blogspot.com

Wednesbury Celebrates has been under the effective control of a group Labour Councillors and associates/family members.

I have never heard of the alleged "5 Star Community Association" but am aware that the son of two of the councillors involved (who is also the brother of a third councillor), one Richard Jones, has, until recently at least, been operating a commercial operation in Wednesbury called "5 Star Performance Academy". Here is the link to the website today:

http://5starperformanceacademy.co.uk/home/

Pursuant to a Freedom of Information Act request Sandwell Council told me that 5 Star had also not been paying them rent for using taxpayer-owned premises.

Can you please forward to me copies of the applications made by both alleged community associations?

I am copying in a well-known BBC journalist who has featured Wednesbury Celebrates on local radio items."

Clearly Britton let things slide as usual with the problem of non-payment of rent but Steve Eling and the Cabinet need to get a grip here. If not already doing so they must instruct the legal department (or if they are not up to it, outside solicitors) to start proceedings for the missing rent against both Wednesbury Celebrates and Richard Jones's 5 Star and if the money is not forthcoming proceed directly against the trustees. Enough is enough here!

Mind you - fancy dental work doesn't come cheap does it Richard?

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