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Dear All Yet another disabled people's organization closes thorugh lack of financial support. Colin From: Peter Millington [mailto:[log in to unmask]] Sent: 22 March 2006 10:00 To: [log in to unmask] Subject: Closure of Disability West Midlands Disability West Midlands Prospect Hall College Walk Selly Oak Birmingham B29 6LE 21st March 2006 Dear Member / Friend of Disability West Midlands Unfortunately Disability West Midlands will be closing our offices at Prospect Hall on 31st March 2006. Due to the loss of our long-standing core funding from the Regional Health Levies Fund our four remaining staff are being made redundant and our information service is now closed. As you will know from correspondence last year, DWM went into administration in April 2005 due to debts. In November there were two meetings held at Prospect Hall, one for creditors and one for DWM members, at which both groups voted to accept the Company Voluntary Arrangement (CVA) which had been proposed by Andrew Appleyard of Haines Watts. Whilst this should have been good news for the organisation and on this basis we ought to have come out of administration straight away, unfortunately Andrew Appleyard discovered a legal conflict within the CVA, causing a very considerable delay which has still not been resolved. Remaining in administration has made it very difficult to fund raise although there is a possibility of new funding in a few months time. The executive committee have therefore decided to keep the organisation's charity registration and it's registration at Companies House until the long-term situation becomes clearer. In the meantime, please keep in contact with the Executive committee through our acting chair, Clenton Farquharson who can be contacted by writing to the Prospect Hall address - post will be redirected to Clenton for at least 12 months. I wish you all well and hope to work with many of you again in the future. As you can imagine, after 15 years working for Disability West Midlands I have a huge amount of happy memories and I am also filled with great sadness about recent events. Finally, I want to say a big thank you to my work colleagues and to colleagues on the executive committee who have handled the recent situation with enormous commitment, dignity, decisiveness and courage. Yours faithfully Pete Millington - Acting Chief Officer ________________End of message______________________ This Disability-Research Discussion list is managed by the Centre for Disability Studies at the University of Leeds (www.leeds.ac.uk/disability-studies). Enquiries about the list administratione should be sent to [log in to unmask] Archives and tools are located at: www.jiscmail.ac.uk/lists/disability-research.html You can JOIN or LEAVE the list from this web page.