Nottingham Tremmor in the paper.

[DarWood]

What I would like to know is why is 3% of the votes against it!!

I guess they will never know until they actually see it or do it

Hopefully sky will change that!

Darren

 

[Kitch]

Good job, time to hunt down and 're-train' the 3%

 

[Grrrr]

Originally posted by Hotpoint
Having just read the article not only is what the Sport England Spokesman said "crap" it was an outright lie

We were turned down for recognition for a reason that isn't even in their recognition criteria (which incidentally violated their own regulations)

I am more than a little bit peeved!

Hotpoint,

Maybe if we can have an official statement from the UKPSF to that effect, we could forward it to the paper, give them the full story...

It could force an answer from the Sports Council...?

Your thoughts?

 

[Dazdread]

Originally posted by Hotpoint
Having just read the article not only is what the Sport England Spokesman said "crap" it was an outright lie

We were turned down for recognition for a reason that isn't even in their recognition criteria (which incidentally violated their own regulations)

I am more than a little bit peeved!

Have we tried going political with this, I wrote to my MP who wrote to the sports minister who reitterated what was quoted to Rob.

Have we gone back through political channels To question why "Sports" status has not been granted?

if anyone wants to you can save a stamp using www.faxyourmp.com... be civil and give as much info as you can.

 

[Hotpoint]

Originally posted by Grrrr
Hotpoint,

Maybe if we can have an official statement from the UKPSF to that effect, we could forward it to the paper, give them the full story...

It could force an answer from the Sports Council...?

Given the changes underway in Sports Council Recognition we are currently waiting to see what the final situation is before pressing the issue again

I am working to a plan here

Originally posted by Dazdread
Have we tried going political with this, I wrote to my MP who wrote to the sports minister who reitterated what was quoted to Rob.

Have we gone back through political channels To question why "Sports" status has not been granted?

I have communicated with the DCMS (Department of Culture Media and Sport) on this issue and they thought that the reasoning used by the Councils seemed a touch nonsensical but for the most part they go along with a legal judgement made previously that the Sports Councils themselves have final say

The Sports Councils have a surprising degree of autonomy from the DCMS despite the fact it is through this body that they are supposedly accountable to Parliament



Finally let me reiterate that the UKPSF is working on this but we are waiting to see what the new form of Recognition is before we start raising hell. No point pissing people off until we really have to

A year ago we considered legal action but the problem there is that once we are recognised we will have to deal with these people regularly and we didn't want to sour the relationship right off the break

 

[Grrrr]

Thanks for the info Hotpoint.

Keep up the good work!

 

[Dazdread]

Good work, my quill is quivering at the ready to front the nasty SC peeps