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Squirrelled away in the 2021/22 ewes FC Cub Strategy is this.
Actions-Invest in building new toilet blocks.
Bearing in mind the diatribe throughout the verbose strategy you would have thought such an improvement in such a basic would get more priority.
The Indicator of Success- New toilet blocks, with disability access to increase toilets/fan ratio.
That is correct, that is Lewes FC indicating that we do not have nearly enough toilet facilities.
So, what has happened. Nothing. A source at the club told me, yes, it’s happening.
Results of application searches at Lewes District Council suggest no application as yet has been received. 18 months on from the process being announced.
I know a bit about planning and it is a month to get plans drawn up and the planning process six weeks. I went through the process in the summer, it is one of those rare British processes that still works.
Anyone who goes to the Pan knows the toilets are archaic and disgusting, a revolting ramshackle collection of converted Portakabins and building site cubicles.
Any process to build new blocks is also dependent on a grant. Whether that is from the FA or the club submits a grant application to the guy who bankrolls the club I do not know.
No grant no bogs.
What is amazing is how the club are making no effort to fundraise as a back-up. Presumably apart from a back-up plan for construction, anyone giving the money is more likely to if they see you have made an effort to raise funds yourself without just a giveaway.
This has to be observed in the context of the massive club spending on playing staff, backroom staff and management. The accounts show little Lewes FC has staff wages of £1,000,000.
So badly is Lewes FC run though it has managed to find £40,000 to buy a member of staff a club car. But it’s okay we were told at the AGM that Lewes FC are so amazing the new car has not depreciated in value. Factcheck- it is an electric car and they depreciate 49% over three years. But don’t get the facts interfere with a good yarn.
To use the new club buzzword, it is an ‘indicator’ of just how out of touch the club board are sanctioning such an expense whilst acknowledging out toilets are simply not good enough. Also acknowledging they can only be replaced if someone else spunks up the money. But going out buying brand new cars with our own money. It’s okay though folks it is electric and ‘aligns with our values.’
I have to say I have no idea who the club have bought the car for, if it is for who I think it is, it really does not represent good value for money either.
It stinks.
The Rights of Fans. 