Re: problems with leaders - advice appreciated


"Eddie Langdown" <the3lang@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> Oh dear,
> I fear i have been here myself, i hang my head in shame as GSL to say
'more
> than once'....
> I have had three leaders ( in 20 years) who have fiddled hundreds of
pounds
> out of subs. I feel so guilty, ashamed, angry, that i trusted their
stories,
> week after week. Basically, they are good working class people who have
> been the only ones around to run the section at the time.... who have
never
> handled money ( no excuse) and who find them selves taking home up to £60
a
> night in cash ( 20 kids at £3) £240 a month, so although we had the books
in
> to be checked every 6 months, and then 3 months, it was still a lot of
cash
> building-up. These busy working people often found getting to a bank, let
> alone queuing in the lunch hour to pay-in very difficult. So they spent
the
> actual cash ( i do it myself) but they never got to replace it with a
> cheque... and so it built-up. They panic, start telling lies to cover-up
etc
> etc.
> We have simply never got termly payments to work, except with a rich few.
> One person, destroyed the original attendance book and cut her numbers
down
> to in a replacement book.
> Generally, although we threatened them with legal action, the Committee
was
> reluctant to publicise our problem in any way as we rely a great deal on
> grants from charities, and it would look bad to be so incapable
financially.
> One chap paid us back just over half over 6 months. A woman went crying to
> the DC with a sob story that we were harassing her. She also stole
uniforms
> we had bought.
> Sorry , but at the end of the day we wanted to cut our losses and make a
> fresh start with new procedures; the person who takes the attendance book
> must be a different person to the one who banks the cash. And the
treasurer
> will check to see if sections are paying-in regularly.

This is why we operate one single account for every section, Explorers have
their own account now. But all monies collected are paid in to the treasurer
ASAP and any payments out are refuinded ASAP too.

I'm not too concerned if we have the odd member who misses on subs, we can
usually identify the missing subs as being down to parents out of work,
getting divorced, or some other strife, so we can let that go. But if they
turn up in a Mercedes, and are just back from holiday in the Bahamas and
they haven't paid we chase them. Other than that misappropriation of funds
is non-existant.

If we were to end up a couple of hundred pounds down and some kit missing,
then the perpetrator would be given a chance to reinstate those goods, a
report would go to the DC. If the goods were not returned then the Police
would be informed, irrespective of the outcome we would have to report it to
the CC.

Ewan Scott

Ewan Scott




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