Re: NEMT v NFMT

Posted on March 24, 2024 by Alec Renwick

From: Alec Renwick alec.renwick@nemaritimetrust.org.uk
Sent: 24 March 2024 20:55
To: Michael Dawson
Subject: Re: NEMT v NFHT

Michael
May I remind you as before that your words are somewhat aggressive to me and hope you can calm down and think before you write, especially referring to NEMT V NFHT in your title here!
After going through your membership record and viewing your recent copy of mandate for a payment in Oct 2024.
I cannot see a payment after October 2021 via the cooperative bank, which as said is now closed.

I have also copied a previous email here expressing your handover of payments and management of the Website nemaritimetrust.co.uk directly to myself and payment by NEMT.
This was completed and you had no right to reverse that decision, or cancel my management of the website.
There are UK NIC rules to stop such scurrilous activity.
As a result, your membership is currently suspended until more substantial information is derived to the latter.

Your membership and other will be discussed at our next meeting.
(It wasn’t until you raised the question about mailboxes that the shortcomings of the system we were operating showed up.
I’m logged in, please see attached, and will check if the easiest way to transfer everything over is to replace The_Dog_Watch with your email address alec.renwick@gmail.com or chockerblock.
They are raising a ticket to transfer it all to you and it should appear with you when they have untangled it all – have fun)

Alec Renwick

NIC is short for National Insurance Contribution.
There was no attachment!

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NEMT v NFHT: 2

Posted on March 19, 2024 by Mick Dawson

From: Michael Dawson daw50nmdj@hotmail.co.uk
Sent: 19 March 2024 16:59
To: Alec Renwick alec.renwick@nemaritimetrust.org.uk
Subject: NEMT v NFHT

Dear Alec

First: I want to dispel the rumour going around that Peter Weightman as one of NFHT, had anything to do with the alterations made by me to the NEMT website. In fact he asked me to remove the most contentious of them and I was in the process of doing that when it appears the provider, TSOHOST was told I was not a member of NEMT and I was excluded from nemaritimetrust.co.uk and was not able to complete Peter’s request.

Secondly: in his email dated 17-Mar-24, Mr Barnard says that I am not a member of NEMT which both, you and l, know to be untrue. We were both part the group of people interested in preserving the traditional vessels of the North East and we became part of the team of which Peter was one, who with the aid of the Coble and Keelboat Society, set up what was to become the North East Maritime Trust and all three of us are still members.

I assume that you keep your subscription up to date and I can vouch that mine is up to date. It is paid by standing order – please see attached. It does however leave you with the problem of what to do about Mr Barnard. He has been spreading a lie, that I am not a member of the Trust and we both know it to be untrue and it is up to him to admit that he was in the wrong and to apologise to those members of the trust whom he has misled and for you, the Chair of the Trust to determine why he was so ready to repeat the lie on the 17th when he had already hinted that I was not a member of NEMT on the 15th.

It appears that he, by his responses, first to Peter’s then to my emails, has given you no choice but to back him or sack him.

I look forward to hearing your decision.

Kind Regards
Mick Dawson

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Consider Urgent 7

Posted on March 17, 2024 by admin

From: k.barnard258 k.barnard258@btinternet.com
Sent: 17 March 2024 13:07
To: Michael Dawson; Peter Weightman;
Cc: Paul Nicholson; Richard Branson; Alec Renwick alec.renwick@nemaritimetrust.org.uk; Kevin Lund kevin.lund@nemaritimetrust.org.uk; Dr Griffiths, Sue

Re: Consider Urgent

Mr Dawson ,
I note that you are not a member of NEMT but are a director of nfht whom , I assume you speak for .
Mr Barnard was misinformed: Mr Dawson has been a member of NEMT from its very early days, has not resigned and his subs are paid every October by standing order.
I am an ellected member of NEMT and was ellected by the membership because they wished me to take that position . It’s called democracy .
The reason you have not seen the minutes is because you are not a member , just thought I would clear that question up for you.
Mr Barnard has again been misinformed: I had seen the minutes of the AGM held in 2023 and knew that were two different versions in circulation. One will have to ask Mr K Lund why he was asked to produce one that conflicted with the original and Mr Renwick why he had not produced any minutes for meetings held in November 2023 and early 2024.
As you are a none member and as such have no say in the business of MENT I must assume anything you may have to say about myself is personal and carries no priviledge, in view of this can I ask you to cease and desist from having anything deflamatory or otherwise say about me either written or spoken from you personally or as a director of nfht.
On January 6th 2023, I had justly accused the signatories of the policy document produced at the special meeting in November of being fraudsters and proof that the accusation had been just, was because they promtly paid what they owed NFHT.*
I fail to understand what reason nfht would have to want to control a wedsite in the name of NEMT which has nothing whatsoever to do with then other to cause our charity problems.
Again Mr Barnard has been misinformed: the website associated with NEMT, nemaritimetrust.co.uk was created by me at about the same time as one called nemt.co.uk and they were both registered in 2014.
I am unaware of any president wherein one charity would legitimately have cause to attack another, perhaps you could explain.
No, Mr Barnard, again you were misinformed, NFHT has never attacked NEMT there was no cause until Mr Renwick attacked both Peter and I as Trustees of NFHT, without cause on the 15th March 2024.

Mr K Barnard Director
NEMT

* This needs to be confirmed but Mr A Renwick was the only signatory of the Policy Document produced in November 2022, who was still a NEMT Trustee when the my troubles with him and Trust came to a head in March 2024.
It also became clear and this needs to be confirmed, that the vessels ‘owned’ by Trust were not being charged for work done by the volunteers of both NEMT and the NFHT while any vessels not owned by NEMT were being charged, not only the work done but for the use of the slipway as well.

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NEMT Latest: 16-Mar-24

Posted on March 16, 2024 by admin

From: Michael Dawson <daw50nmdj@hotmail.co.uk>
Sent: 16 March 2024 13:48
To: Paul Nicholson; Peter Weightman; Richard Branson
Subject: NEMT Latest
– wrongly called ‘Consider Urgent 6’
Attachment:

Dear Paul and Everyone,

This has been added as a forward* to the email I sent at 8:30 this morning. My additional message:-

Peter’s email; Sent: 15 March 2024 19:36 to various folk under the subject, Consider Urgent, caused what can only be considered as outrageous rubbish to be sent by a so called Director of NEMT:-

From: k.barnard258
Sent: 15 March 2024 21:14

Peter, reference your point 3 in the latest attack on the ellected board of NEMT.
Are you implying that a member of NEMT is responsible for this disgraceful personalised and aggressive attack. I believe the person in question is in fact a member of NFHT board and has not been a member of NEMT for several years.
As you are no longer a member of the board of NEMT you will not be aware that NEMT is going from strength to strength.
Once more I find your attitude towards NEMT and it’s board together with your statement of how far you are willing to go to attain your own ambitions unacceptable.

Keith Barnard Director

I hope I had made it clear in a more considered response made at 8:30 this morning, that I was speaking as a founder member of NEMT when I said about Alec: It has never been his or their website.

Nemaritimetrust.co.uk has been in my name from about the time that NEMT became a charity.

Both Alec and I recognised the need for a website soon after the meeting where it was decided to set one up for the North East Maritime Trust and I believe he set one up called nemt.co.uk in May 2005. At that time, it was easy to piggy back one site onto another and mine was called nemaritimetrust.co.uk and when he made things difficult for me, a couple of years later, I registered mine in its own right with www.nominet.uk in May 2014, please see the attached extract.

I cannot blame him as nemaritimetrust had picked up far more followers than nemt. NEMT had also become the regular look-up for the North East Mountain Trust which had been formed a few years before NEMT.

Only Alec can confirm these details but nemaritimetrust.org.uk was created in October 2022 at about the same time as I booted him out of nemaritimetrust.co.uk when I realised he was turning what was my site into one for the Henry Frederic Swan Appreciation Society.

Some time between posting an email claiming that I had been blocked from NEMT Social Media on Thursday and Alex writing to us all on the lunchtime of the 15th, I lost control of the site as it no longer recognised me and it is Alec, who is to blame.

To put it bluntly he has shit in his own nest as he had to lie or give fraudulent misrepresentation to our service provider TSOHOST to get this done and I shall show them the extract to prove that I still owned the domain name when Alec said it was his.

I now have a support ticket with them which I should be able to progress with an email similar to this one and hopefully I will be able to ask Nominet to extend my ownership of nemaritimetrust.co.uk to beyond May this year.

I hope to be in touch with some good news before next weekend.

Cheers
Mick

* Oops, not a forward but an afterthought, also it was up to a service provider, not Nominet, to extend the expiry date of the ownership of a domain name for which there was a moderate charge and technically I was not a founder menber of NEMT although I was present at the early meetings where we thought of ourselves as the North East Maritime Trust.

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Consider Urgent 5

Posted on March 16, 2024 by admin

From: Michael Dawson
Sent: 16 March 2024 08:30
To: Peter Weightman
Cc: Paul Nicholson; Richard Branson; Alec Renwick alec.renwick@nemaritimetrust.org.uk; Kevin Lund kevin.lund@nemaritimetrust.org.uk; Dr Griffiths, Sue; Keith Barnard
Subject: Re: Consider Urgent

Dear Peter,

I think I can answer to the question, posed in your response to the email from Alec Renwick, NEMT Chairperson, what has gone wrong in the last two years?
The answer is the elevation of Mr Barnard to be the director of the Charity.
I have not been privileged to see the minutes of the Annual General Meetings for at least two years but I see that he signs himself as a Director in his last email.
Separately: Mr Renwick’s comment, that I have conspired with anyone to scam the website nemaritimetrust.co.uk with unauthorised data, is ridiculous, as is the falsehood: An attempt to remove his access from our website about two years ago has obviously been circumvented.

It has never been his or their website. Nemaritimetrust.co.uk has been in my name from the time that NEMT became a charity and there is nothing Messrs Renwick and Barnard can do about it, that is, if they desire to keep the North East Maritime Trust as a charity.

Kind regards,
Mick

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Consider Urgent 4

Posted on March 15, 2024 by admin

From: K Barnard
Sent: 15 March 2024 21:14
To: Peter Weightman; Alec Renwick <alec.renwick@nemaritimetrust.org.uk>; Branson, Richard; Paul Nicholson; Mick Dawson
Cc: Kevin Lund <kevin.lund@nemaritimetrust.org.uk>; Dr Griffiths, Sue
Subject: Re: Consider Urgent

Second personal attack on Peter Weightman – the first being by Alec Renwick about eight hours earlier.

Peter, reference your point 3 in the latest attack on the ellected board of NEMT.
Are you implying that a member of NEMT is responsible for this disgraceful personalised and aggressive attack.
I believe the person in question is in fact a member of NFHT board and has not been a member of NEMT for several years.
As you are no longer a member of the board of NEMT you will not be aware that NEMT is going from strength to strength.
Once more I find your attitude towards NEMT and it’s board together with your statement of how far you are willing to go to attain your own ambitions unacceptable.

Keith Barnard Director

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Consider Urgent 3

Posted on March 15, 2024 by admin

From: Peter Weightman

Sent: 15 March 2024 19:36

To: Alec Renwick <alec.renwick@nemaritimetrust.org.uk>; Branson, Richard: Paul Nicholson; Mick Dawson
Cc: Kevin Lund <kevin.lund@nemaritimetrust.org.uk>; Barnard, Keith; Dr Griffiths, Sue

Subject: Re: Consider Urgent

Dear Alec,
I am somewhat distressed to receive your message this afternoon.
I make four points:

  1. I would be grateful if you could distinguish between me, as a person, and the Northumbrian Fishing Heritage Trust. I was a founder of NEMT, for the larger part of its existence I was Chairman, I contributed a great amount of energy and made personal sacrifices, I passionately want to see a revival of it, and I will take those measures as are sound and lawful to encourage its return to its objectives – especially the maritime heritage objectives – and take steps to promote a return to good ethical standards, whilst endeavouring to avoid reputational damage to NEMT.
  2. If I choose to communicate with my friends and colleagues, whose details I have in my file, and if I do so in a private and confidential manner – for the purpose of returning NEMT to its former path – then I am free to do so without seeking the consent of you or the board members.
  3. If an NEMT member other than myself has been undertaking action to which you take exception, I suggest you take up that matter with him directly, you can also ask if he was undertaking those actions in his capacity as a member of NEMT or in a different capacity.
  4. I note that you are conflating internal NEMT issues with another trust, i.e. the Northumbrian Fishing Heritage Trust. The two trusts are complementary, not competitors, and the NFHT was given charity accreditation with the active support of NEMT. The two trusts worked in fruitful co-operation for many years however there is no benefit accruing to the common cause of local maritime heritage by following a route of confrontation; a course of reconciliation should be the object of both trusts.

I utterly refute any suggestion that my actions have been improper.
On a more personal level, I would like you to ask yourself why you are following a route of division; for years we worked together with a passion to create and a vision to develop NEMT – it was a most fruitful partnership – what has gone wrong in the last two years?

Yours sincerely,
Peter Weightman

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Consider Urgent 2

Posted on March 15, 2024 by admin

From: Michael Dawson daw50nmdj@hotmail.co.uk
Sent: 15 March 2024 18:33
To: Peter Weightman
Cc: Alec Renwick alec.renwick@nemaritimetrust.org.uk; Paul Nicholson; Richard Branson
Subject: Re: Consider Urgent

Hi Peter,

It looks as if though Mr Renwick has lost the plot. Please remind him that I have owned the domain name nemaritimetrust.co.uk since we first set up the trust and that he must have been lying to the provider Tsohost, to convince them to remove its editorship from me, some time this morning.
Please also remind him, if you take time to respond to his false accusations, that it not the sort of conduct one expects from the Chairman of a Trust.

All the best,
Mick

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Consider Urgent 1

Posted on March 15, 2024 by admin

From: Alec Renwick alec.renwick@nemaritimetrust.org.uk
Sent: 15 March 2024 12:49
To: Peter W; Branson, Richard; Paul Nicholson; Mick Dawson
Cc: Kevin Lund kevin.lund@nemaritimetrust.org.uk; Barnard, Keith; Dr Griffiths, Sue
Subject: Consider Urgent

The Chairman of a Trust casting aspersions against two of its members, Peter Weightman and Mick Dawson:-

Mr Weightman
It is apparent that you, presumably acting for (NFHT), have sent an unauthorised personal letter to NEMT members which contravenes data protection laws and your previous position as Secretary of this Trust.
I shall also remind you that data protection laws state that unauthorised use of personal data is an offence which can carry very high fines.
In this case any member can ask for all data and messages he has regarding them, which must be supplied within 28 days.

Peter Weightman’s response, please see Consider Urgent 3

I also notice that Mick Dawson (NFHT) has conspired to scam our website with similar unauthorised data, blocking any input from NEMT.
An attempt to remove his acces from our website about two years ago has obviously been circumvented, these actions must be removed immediately.

Mick Dawson’s response, please see Consider Urgent 2.

Collectively serious moves like this or any other planned obstructive practices should stop immediately.

With regards
Alec Renwick – NEMT Chairperson.

Trustee, K Barnard’s addition to the personal attack on Peter Weightman.

Peter, reference your point 3 in the latest attack on the ellected board of NEMT.
Are you implying that a member of NEMT is responsible for this disgraceful personalised and aggressive attack.
I believe the person in question is in fact a member of NFHT board and has not been a member of NEMT for several years.
As you are no longer a member of the board of NEMT you will not be aware that NEMT is going from strength to strength.
Once more I find your attitude towards NEMT and it’s board together with your statement of how far you are willing to go to attain your own ambitions unacceptable.

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Relaunch of the Lifeboat

Posted on March 15, 2024 by Alec Renwick

Relaunching of our ex (1917) Tynemouth Lifeboat Henry Frederick Swan
2nd April 2024.

Weather permitting we will be putting HFS back in the water on Sunday 7th April from 12.30 till about 2.30pm.

This is going to be a great occasion with music and entertainment by students at Sunderland University from 12.30.

So why not come along and enjoy what we have on show.

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