EC PAPERS NOVEMBER 2017

recompense for this. A deed of easement has been drawn up by the solicitor which only requires the addition of any agreed details if a deal is struck. 11 We have been successful in generating some new income from shared services. We have proposed two further Service Level Agreements to one union to generate further income through the finance team. No response has yet been received. 12 We have carefully analysed the income generated by our management of education courses for one union and this is satisfactory. 13 We have tendered for the whole financial services work, accountancy and audit for another union. We were shortlisted and presented our case on November 9th. This tender will be worth £68k per annum and will require the employment of another finance officer. 14 Further meetings on marketing our other new services, the ethical shop, publishing house and so on will need to be held with the Operations Manager. 15 The new housing on the Quorn site could be potentially managed in house, saving costs, and this will be explored. 16 We are dissatisfied with the services we have received by hotel and accommodation companies and are actively considering forming our own company. 17 We have discussed kitting out our new classrooms with support from the Leeds Beckett University.

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We are considering grant applications for our future International Study visit.

19 We are supporting a number of grant applications for educational and history related projects.

Legal Issues.

20 There are four complex areas where legal advice has been sought. For the sake of completeness and the good overall management of the Federation I attach the legal documents received. The EC can rest assured that the F&GP and the Educational Trust have considered these carefully.

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These are summarised as follows:

a) The original sale transfer was faulty and the owner of the Quorn Grange site needs to be changed. Our lawyers advise that this was done incorrectly and we could claim from our previous solicitors. The mistake they claim was to place the ownership in the name of the Educational Trust which is not an incorporated body. The ownership should either be in the name of 2-4 Trustees or all of them. This can be discussed further at the ET. The ET agreed that John, Smith, Doug Nicholls, and Oshor Williams should be the named Trustees and that lawyers should proceed to effect this change by way of an Order of the Charity Commissioners. b) The Educational Trust has no written agreements with the occupiers of the site – the GFTU, the Nursery and the hotel – for their use of the site and terms of reference for any payments. Leases have therefore be drawn up in advance of discussions when the build is complete. The F&GP will have to return to this matter next June and make decisions.