Croydon Family Groups
News Flash (26.02.2011)
The department for children, young people and learners at Croydon Council has informed Croydon Family Groups directly and indirectly that Croydon Family Groups will receive no further funding. This would mean that Croydon Family Groups would have to close at the end of March. However, Croydon Family Groups believes that this decision is unfair and unlawful, and hence has applied at Croydon County Court for an injunction against Croydon. The application has been accepted and we are now waiting for the hearing to be listed. We will update the news flash as soon as new information becomes available. LHEThe people responsble for the decision are: Dwynwen Stepien, Allan Nimmo & David Johnston.
News Flash - up-date (04.03.2011)
After a lengthy
consultation process with our families, I, Dr Ludger Hofmann-Engl,
executive manager of Croydon Family Groups, came to the conclusion
that the only way to save Croydon Family Groups was to file an
injunction against Croydon. The application had already received a
case number, 1CR00262, and was in the hands of a circuit judge.
However, without consulting or informing anyone at Croydon Family
Groups, including myself, the trustees withdrew the application today
on the 4th of March 2011. As far as I am aware this withdrawal was
motivated by nothing other than selfish interests. Croydon Family
Groups will thus cease to exist, extinguished not by the doings of
Croydon but by the hands of its own trustees. The trustees are: Mary
Dawes, Terrie Martyn, Ellen Andrews and Matthew Bodley.
I
now have handed in my resignation to the trustees to become effective
after the 5th of March, and I will seek to take the people
responsible for this decision to an employment tribunal under
constructive dismissal.
I wish
all the very best to all our families and I hope that after a period
of gloom a brighter future will appear on our horizon soon.
Dr Ludger Hofmann-Engl
News Flash - final up-date (22.03.2011)
Judge Sage at South London Employment Tribunal has rejected my application against Croydon Family Groups on the grounds that the trustees are not my employers. However, the trustees withdrew the application for an injunction posing as my employers. To me, this appears to be a fraudulent act. Further, the trustees posed as the owner to this website and attempted to have it deleted. However, as the domain is registered in my name, the host administration informed me about this attempt. In criminal terms this amounts to an attempt to cause criminal damage. I also was informed by the trustees that should I not remove the web-site myself, I would receive unfavourable work references. In criminal terms this is blackmailing. From all I can conclude it was a conflict of interest which led the trustees to close Croydon Family Groups in order to protect the financial interests of Croydon PLA and Croydon Home Start.Still, Croydon Family Groups can no longer more be saved and hence I conclude that there is no point in undertaking any further action. However, a bad taste about the actions of the trustees will remain in the mouths of many for a long time.
Dr Ludger Hofmann-Engl
P.S. Unannounced and in contrast to what Croydon Family Groups had been told on previous occasions, Croydon Council transferred a further £4665.00 into the account of Croydon Family Groups controlled by the trustees as described as “LK0469 Additional Funding” with the bacs dated 24th March 2011. This is either devil's play or a high level of corruption, and my guess is that it is the latter. 02.04.2011
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The Mussorgsky Family Project 2008/2009
sponsored by the National Lottery via CALAT
Listen to the CFG Drums produced by Crown Lane Studio (09.12.2008) during the Mussorgsky Family Project with Daniele, Harvey, Sam, Johnny, Sylvia, Yejin, Sue, Ian, John, Ludger, Maria and Myles. The mp3 file is
here.
A second CFG drum story was produced at Crown Lane Studio (20.02.2009) during the Mussorgsky Family Project with Siobhan, Anton, Elise, Sathy, Stephen, Eveian, Reya, Ludger and John, and the mp3 file is here.
This Il Veccio Castello Variation was recorded during the workshop at the Braithwaite Hall Croydon on the 8th of January 2009 (performers: Chiara, Carmen, Ludger and Saskia).
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Some 30 years ago:
Princess Diana visiting Croydon Family Groups
