Instead youre obliged to face a grandiose monument to arrogance, a self-important symbol of contempt for the community. It would go on to pour a total of 32,700 into the scheme. In all, the War Memorial committee raised 206,000. He is a His arrest, in March 2015, followed the appearance in the town of a number of satirical posters lampooning local councillors and brown envelopes containing photocopies of Venezuelan currency. Now the hall hosts everything from Hop Festival gigs, jazz evenings, talks, fairs and boxing matches to Public Inquiries and blood donor sessions. They are the relief of distress, to provide social welfare to improve the quality of life, the provision of educational facilities and any other charitable purpose, provided that this is already being partially funded out of other funds. Isleworth Crown Court jailed for him for 20 years. issues in social care; Of working in a And Lady Alexander would certainly have approved of the music. manual for effective negotiation. Not just todays community but the Faversham of a hundred years ago, a generation that experienced incomprehensible loss and suffering. He said that he had lived in Faversham for 42 years, and that he was the St Ann's Ward Councillor. The Trust added baffles to the high ceiling, so the sound is now sorted. Best Value: a In November 2015, comments books were left in the Alexander Centre, the Faversham Library and St Marys Church. Work includes organisational design, management development, The Faversham workhouse was closed in 1929 and the building became a Public Assistance Institution under the control of Kent County Council. Mike represents many of PCIA's largest professional firms. But Swales statement of truth penned by council officer and war memorial group member Graeme Tuff makes only a fleeting mention of the volunteer gardeners who turned up most Sunday mornings for eight years to mow the lawns with their own mowers, refurbish the benches, pick litter and weed flowerbeds. By 2015 the schemes initial estimated 80,000 cost had crept up to 120,000. Faversham Consultancy Group following his departure from Kent Social Services where he Eight years ago, however, a group of local people began tidying the site, planting trees and fruit bushes, seeds and bulbs. In this conversation. Other members included local journalist Mark Gardner of the Faversham News. How a handful of councillors and council officers could spend public money doing this to a garden they didnt own, against the wishes of the community without revealing their plans or even needing planning permission has remained something of a mystery. Supervision and Management, Associate Member They spent ,2000 of this the following year. Not so much democracy in actionmore yelling in Selling. This restriction was put in place so that it could meet part of our charitable objects to support the interests of patients in Faversham Cottage Hospital., Horrified at the new memorials disproportionate dimensions and brutalist appearance, some wrote to the. Menu. Initially, the volunteer gardeners attended Cosgroves meetings but soon concluded their concerns were being ignored. A sudden and miraculous conversion appears to have turned former Conservative Faversham councillor Mike Cosgrove into a born-again environmentalist. Swale didnt yet own the garden. Now hopefully the balance will be redressed., It was an interesting birthday, albeit alarming, said John. Payne, Wade and Osborne all lived some distance from the memorial garden in Priory Row. By 2018, there was 53,439 carried over at the end of the year. Horrified at the new memorials disproportionate dimensions and brutalist appearance, some wrote to the Faversham News calling it an eyesore and a Stalinistic abortion. This is aimed at report to ministers and Kent Police spent the next four months trying to forensically match John Wellards handwriting with a satirical Christmas card, which had been sent to a friend, Sue Akhurst. We asked Cosgrove for figures to back up the claim but none were forthcoming. every case the Mike Cosgrove is known for Alien Ant Farm: Movies (2001), Alien Ant Farm: Smooth Criminal (2001) and Dystopia Tonight with John Poveromo (2021). Can this possibly be the same Mike Cosgrove who sat on Swale Borough Council as it allowed our small town to be swamped by at least ten new housing estates, doubling the towns developed area within five years and ruining swathes of countryside? Many of them will also use or return to local shops and eateries. TACT involved a number of experts, many of whom gave their time on a voluntary basis. Councillor's Guide to planning services for He argues that the town needed it as Faversham was one of the few towns which did not have a memorial naming its dead. The only letters in support came from Swales own officers and three neighbours. Given that at least 80 of the comments were unequivocally against the scheme, its hard to see how this alleged majority is mathematically possible. have worked with during the past two years. Driving across England to Shripshire (sic), seeing the awful creep of new housing development across the countryside. Since 2011 the Faversham Creek Trust has been working towards a regeneration plan that focuses on the upper part of Faversham Creek above the Brents Swing Bridge. emphasis (Social Services Strategic Planning). Other members included local journalist Mark Gardner of the, Plans were drawn up with the help of Faversham-based FDA architects, showing a garden laid out in an eye shape. when you need of the scheme. Needs of Feasibility/development studies: In addition, Andrew is a senior Consultant No one expects the Spanish Inquisition, least of all Kent Police it seems. Inspector, Social Services Inspectorate Wales. This is accounted for as money set aside to future projects. Sometimes they have Swales Graeme Tuff replied he hadnt seen the plans, despite being a key member of Cosgroves committee. informal The attics, where their servants would have slept, have barely been touched in over 100 years. Join Facebook to connect with Mike Cosgrove and others you may know. value social services; negotiation; the implications of But little was known about the secret machinations behind it. senior managers. They set about restoring the heritage features and bringing it back into the heart of the towns activities. Member of parts of the United View the profiles of people named Mike Cosgrove. The balance, around 427,000 is the accumulated profits. This is strongly disputed by the volunteer gardeners. Between 2013 and 2018, it spent 46,744 on management fees to Lloyds to look after its cash and investments. After reportedly filling the former mortuary with much verbal abuse and shouting they left. The first task was to renovate the building. wrote the guide Evaluation of the voluntary adoption service. The people had another say in September 2016, when Cosgroves committee tried to get planning permission for what it called its substantially modified plans. University of London/NCH (JDW, current), Evaluative study 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. guide for the The idea of an endowment is that the original sum remains untouched. About 500,000 of this is the permanent endowment and comes from the original land sale. They included a number asking questions and seeking clarification, some who opposed the plans in total, some whose opposition was based on misconceptions and a majority of supportive and positive comments. Association for The group leadership. The Institute of Directors and has a masters degree in When we asked for missing minutes of their meetings under Freedom of Information rules, Swale Borough Council refused. Bensteds took in all the donations, claimed the charity tax relief and it is listed as a separate item in their accounts. They had their reasons for choosing the memorial they did and their wishes should have been respected. benchmarking tool, the negotiation of a package from a negotiation. But Cosgrove and his band of public servants seemed determined to force it through. The plan was first submitted to the Local Plan forum of the . but there is still room to expand The Alexander Centre. David was up through the night for the general election, ran his market stall all day today (Friday), did all his deliveries and was back in Sittingbourne for the count - that's commitment. View Mike Cosgrove results including current phone number, address, relatives, background check report, and property record with Whitepages. Claiming the old garden was not disabled-friendly he added: The new garden has much better access and a circular path constructed using wheelchair friendly materials. Trying to find the right nursery, school, college, university or training provider in Kent or Medway? Asked by Jackie Westlake if she has seen the Daily Mail story, Emma says: I didn't think it would be covered in the Daily Mail but maybe locally!. The councillors then met informally and decided that the satirical posters were a criminal matter, that John Wellard was responsible and should be prosecuted. Bensteds is an unusual local charity. Leading interior designer, Sue Timney, advised on colour schemes and materials. evaluation of the impact of the first three years In each of the four years between 2013 and 2016, the charity made a profit totalling 38,659. Negotiation's OK All relatively small sums, which could make a profound difference to the quality of life of those who received the money. 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 . See next week's Faversham News for full coverage and pictures. of England. Then Faversham lost its borough status and the building was owned by Swale Borough Council (SBC) until 2012. KCC argue that when they bought the land from themselves there was a ten year covenant on the land requiring it to be used as an old peoples home. At this moment, Monty Python became Keystone Kops. 2001 (MNW), Wrote Think But the hard work starts again tomorrow.". "@ZacGoldsmith Thank you for replying. . But eyebrows were raised when Cosgrove told the Faversham News there was an overwhelming majority of opinion in favour of the plans. But planning permission was refused, voted down by 10-7 by Swale councillors including Cllr Mike Henderson (then Independent, now Lib Dem), who argued: I think we have lost sight of what the community in Faversham would like to see happening.. In 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. Kingdom as well as in France, Morocco, Italy, Denmark, The With its oversized central tombstone, brick wall backdrop and unsightly row of sterile concrete blocks, the finished garden has been likened to North Korea, The Handmaids Tale, the architecture of Albert Speer and, even less flatteringly, a line of gents urinals. That is the big difference between being owned by an independent body and being run by the Government. Coincidentally, a Bro Andrew Spiers is a member of Bro Tom Gates masonic lodge, the Manor of Faversham. At the next meeting he reported a renewed campaign from objectors. For example if part of a project requires The new trustees sold part of the land and this left the charity with around 500,000 as a permanent endowment. services management 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.. Workshops and By the early 1980s, KCC assumed they owned the site. Mike Cosgrove, then an SBC councillor, set up a working group to review options. Institute of But it was too late. In the last four years, Bensteds has given 73,526 in charitable grants, 32,500 of this went to the War Memorial. It would be nice to think that Sir Sidney Alexander, who was mayor through the long and painful years of World War I, would be delighted to see Faversham enjoying his home now. Before being shown the door by the electorate in Mays local elections, Mr Cosgrove was Swales Cabinet Member for Regeneration. Verified account Protected Tweets @; Suggested users Use tab to navigate through the menu items. 1990 - 1995. She then went up the ladder and contacted Detective Chief Inspector Tony Henley, the Swale District Commander. We contacted Biffa to ask how much the company had donated and spokesperson said: Why would a local depot donate company cash without head office approval? This place is famous for its great service and friendly staff, that is always ready to help you. Promoting shared Comments books were left in Faversham Library, the Alexander Centre and St Marys Church. to you 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. contracted to us; sometimes we have contracted to them. 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. Each year since 2015, the set aside has grown. completion of the main manual, wrote a "brief case The money is there waiting for you. of Voluntary Child Care Ouch. Family TACT is now The Alexander Centre CIC (Community Interest Company), chaired by Graham Setterfield, and is a not-for-profit organisation. The passion and the push behind the project came from the Bensteds chairman, Andrew Osborne, a former town councillor, mayor and now 'Honorary Freeman' of Faversham Town Council, who was born in Faversham and who did his national service in the 1950s in the Royal Engineers. the development agreed solutions. (33) Mr Mike Cosgrove (Swale BC) introduced himself as the Cabinet Member for Regeneration. Since Cosgrove, Walker and Simmons all sat on Faversham Town Council, no-one was especially surprised when the council warmly endorsed the refined results. I was informed only recently by people more knowledgable by myself that there had been a possible violation of my rights. The design looked not unlike the, In the library alone, more than 80 comments were against the scheme, many fiercely so. He combines this with his role as Vice -Chair of a NHS Health Trust. And the Barley Mow gift shop has had to leave Court Street temporarily while repairs are carried out. Negotiation for Publishers). We have been overwhelmed by the heartwarming response from many residents across Faversham.. child protection. By Spring 2017, the volunteer gardeners too had discovered nobody owned the land. . The money should be invested and the charity can then spend the investment income. Published Just who was harassing who here? Although the tiny hexagon of land the memorial cross stood on belonged to Swale Borough Council, the garden didnt. 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. Encyclopaedia of Social Work, Guidance on the Mr. Cosgrove attended the University of California, Los Angeles for his undergraduate degree, graduating cum laude. To understand the contribution The Alexander Centre makes to Faversham, let us suppose that Swale Council had sold its unwanted building off for offices insteadwhat would the impact have been? Independent candidate Ben Martin, who has never been involved in politics before, said: "I am absolutely thrilled to have been voted in but we have worked really hard for this. 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.. 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. Institute of On 5 March 2015, PC Emma Willson wrote to Jackie Westlake, saying if her forensic colleagues can link John to the Christmas card, then Mr Wellard can be interviewed regarding the offence of Harrassment. The old garden is gone now, buried under tons of stone, concrete and gravel. wider project. co-editor of three . Favershams premier surrealist web publication, The Spire, recently attracted the attention of former councillor Mike Cosgrove who took to his keyboard to comment: Much more accurate than the Faversham Eye. It can be spent as the Trustees wish. Please do get in touch, Mike. And Sir Sidney and Lady Alexanders upstairs rooms are now offices for small businesses, start-ups and charities. (Social Services Strategic Planning). Deplorable or not, such reactions were far from unusual. costs, Andrew holds a Diploma from the Institute of Health Services Management, BPS Level A and B certificates in Psychometric Testing, and is currently studying for an MA in Learning and Change in Organisations, University of West The puzzling secrecy surrounding this scheme leaves much we dont know. rural This There is no provision in the Police and Criminal Evidence Act (PACE), which allows police officers to search a house for a charge which does not exist. It had remained unregistered for more than 40 years. 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? This website and its associated newspaper are members of the Independent Press Standards Organisation (IPSO), was announced earlier on in the day as the new MP. The history of the project (as detailed in previous issues of the, The irony is that they did not need to spend this money. Another cash injection was announced: from Bensteds Charities. They agreed that collectively a Crime Report for the offence of Harassment will be generated and investigated.. Now, over a century later, it is called The Alexander Centre. Summary. Country Children, based on a series of regional Plans were drawn up with the help of Faversham-based FDA architects, showing a garden laid out in an eye shape. However, using incomplete and heavily redacted minutes obtained under a Freedom of Information request, together with other sources, Faversham Eye has pieced together how they forced their scheme through. Safeguard Children 1999, He is also a qualified teacher. He was a Tutor and Tutor Counsellor for the Open University Business School from present (JDW), Evaluation of a Excluding the War Memorial, Bensteds has given an average of 21 percent of its annual income to other local applicants between 2013 and 2018. Undertaken jointly unless indicated otherwise by initials. Cosgrove wanted the carefully-tended plant beds replaced with a gravelled oval for Remembrance Day parades. When the Faversham workhouse was closed in 1929, the buildings became a Public Assistance Institution under the control of Kent council. As the unrefined public consultation and failed planning application had amply demonstrated, most local residents wished to see no such thing. portfolio. strategic problems. Protection In 2013, they gave 3,685 in grants, while 28,443 was set aside for future projects. The secretive Faversham War Memorial Project Group, led by then-Swale councillor Mike Cosgrove, was comprised chiefly of Swale councillors and officers. British cuisine is served at this cafe. But the people had spoken. Reviews: children's services plan Fortunately, an eagle-eyed council official rescued it from a skip. As well as cash, Cosgroves team needed what they termed community buy-in. child protection This time there were 74 letters and emails objecting. services; In an email to Jackie Westlake, Mike Cosgrove makes further comments about John Wellard and other members of the public, Faversham Creek Trust and Independent candidates in the imminent elections including Sue Akhurst and the late Brenda Chester, wrongly accusing them all of 'disrupting public meetings'. has been extended for a further year to include a of Children and Significantly larger sums were given on a regular basis to what has been criticised by many in the town as an unwelcome vanity project. She added: From time to time, there are small surpluses this is due in part by not having suitable applications to consider at that time.. and management Health and That is a matter of taste and personally, he says he likes it. He had given evidence at the Inspector's public enquiry about Footpath ZF5 in 2014. . He asked Hilary Riva and a number of others to get involved. SBC contributed five years of successionally smaller grants to give TACT time to get it restored and established. . Since when have parish duties included monitoring law-abiding citizens' online activity? The books current whereabouts are unknown but the Faversham Eye has photographs of every page. However, the fact remains that had this been an independent transaction, this future change of use should have been reflected in the price. alcohol misuse; effective learning A seasoned police officer, he also told her, quite correctly, that though it was a nuisance, no crime had been committed. a change of In fact, Faversham Town Council formed its own WW1 working group, with none other than councillors Cosgrove, Gates, Walker among its members, along with councillor Trevor Payne and local Royal British Legion chairman John Quested. This allows us to The discomfort the beetroot-faced Tory Councillors in Faversham had felt when the leaflets appeared would soon get a lot worse. However, the office rentals are popular, so The Alexander Centre is considering renovating the attics to create more offices for startups and charities. She worked for many years in the A Until now. The following day, April 30, sees another flurry of activity. We can focus expertise on a The Regeneration Plan for Faversham Creek Basin has not really changed since 2013 Read how we saw the Bridge then. You can reach The Alexander Centre by both train and bus, and its near to the town car parks. Mike Cosgrove cabinet member at Swale Borough Council Rochester, England, United Kingdom291 connections Join to connect Swale Borough Council Peter Symonds Winchester, Leicester Univ, Reading. Published Unpopular from the outset, the scheme was widely viewed as a vanity project. Looking out over Faversham from the attics in the the Alexander Centre. residential services for children; services for drugs and Nobody did. Sir Sidney, a pioneering vascular surgeon, played billiards with the most prominent men in Faversham (he added a billiards room to the side of the house). This project has therefore accounted for 44 percent of the charitys spending. Let's start with the wards just on the border of Faversham for the borough council. . By early 2016, the projected cost was revised yet again, to 150,000. It was a time when supermarkets began to require more fruit to supply mass demand. 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. Swale Borough Council Faversham's representatives.
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