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.
The North East Maritime Trust is a Registered Charity, 1117855, not a private club and I was passed the minutes of the AGM by a member of its sister charity the Northumbrian Fishing Heritage Trust.
I believe Mr Barnard was an ex-member of the police force and should know better than to hide what goes on at a meeting. Later I got sight of a different version minutes of the AGM held in November 2023 where an extra item appeared in Any Other Business and it is obvious that the author was asked to produce a copy of the minutes that conflicted with the original and it was obviously done with Messrs Barnard’s and Renwick’s approval.
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.
I have been a member of NEMT since they aquired the use of the worshop in Wapping St and on January 6th 2023, I 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 vindicated because what they had tried to withhold from NFHT, was promtly paid.*
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 became clear that the vessels ‘owned’ by NEMT were being not being charged for work done by the volunteers of both NEMT and NFHT while any vessels not owned by NEMT were being charged not only for the work done by the volunteers but for the use of the slipway as well.