From: Paul Nicholson
Sent: 02 October 2019 17:01
To: Mick Dawson <daw50nmdj@hotmail.co.uk>
Subject: NEMT web site etc., – Confidential
Hi Mick,
I hope you are well and keeping warm in this sudden drop in temperature.
As Peter may have told you, we trustees of NEMT are under attack by Paul Gray (failed treasurer,) Phil Smith (voted off the board last year) and Martin Wilson, who wrote the 8 page official complaint letter after losing a vote of No Confidence. We have taken legal advice. Other things are now coming to light, for instance Paul Gray, after walking out three years ago giving up his NEMT membership, still has editorial control over NEMT Facebook pages. He even had the gall to edit a very recent entry of Jerry’s to remove pictures and put his name to a note that he had done it.
We are working hard to close all opportunities this gang of three are using to destabilise the trust for their own purposes, which are not those of the Trust as we know it.
It is also vital that we, that is you, me and Peter being directors of NFHT, remain apart from the troubles as far as possible to avoid cross contamination. As this is so, would you please agree to let me have a note of the web site password and admin authority so that Alec can make some subtle (and perhaps not so subtle) amendments to prevent their access and potential meddling. It is still intended to work up a new web site as soon as funds permit.
Hopefully, (Mr Chairman,) once the NEMT AGM is done and dusted we can have another NFHT meeting when we can discuss the future and the legacy benefit due to us from NEMT.
Thanks Mick
All the best,
Paul
At the time, I completely agreed with Peter/Paul’s view that we, as Trustees of NFHT, should keep our distance from the troubles occurring within NEMT that had arisen from the 8 page official complaint letter by Mr Wilson but I have never thought that I as a member of of NEMT/NFHT that I have been under attack by either by Paul Gray or Phil Smith.
NEMT have a policy of Trustees being retired by rotation and have to be re-elected should they wish to remain as Trustees. At the 2018 AGM both Peter and Phil Smith were retired and while Peter was re-elected, Phil was replaced by Paul and Alec Renwick so technically Phil was not voted off the board, he lost in in the competition to be re-elected.
Paul Gray may have been a failed treasurer in their eyes but from what I have gathered since, it was just their opinion.
Re: the giving away the web site password and admin authority so that Alec can make some subtle amendments to prevent access by Gray and Smith and potential meddling, was a total mistake, because it was used by Mr Renwick to remove all the posts that showed both Trusts acting in unison.
This post should be properly placed in October 2019 but will sit here until the preface to https://nemaritimetrust.co.uk/claim-and-counter-claim/ has been completed.