Tromso Olympiad 2014

[Phil Thomas]

Jacqui,

Thanks for highlighting junior international budget issues.

Many thanks for highlighting particularly that Heads of Delegation, coaching support and chaperones do not constitute support for Scottish International Juniors.

I have no idea about what the IJD from 2008-2011 (Phil Thomas) spent the budget on.

Of course it would be guessing to say which "means test" each individual parents went through on the International Junior budget (2008-2011) for Phil to decide which parents received CS financial support. Perhaps some parents received much more than others (page seven of this thread) ?

I would guess that mistakes may have been made previously like "forgetting" to register Scottish teams for events in time and cost Chess Scotland 100 Euros penalty clauses per person for team events.

Hopefully those days are in the past.

Robin,
Only you could go digging the dirt and talk from a position of profound ignorance at the same time.
You have made an allegation that is tantamount to fraud - this is a very serious allegation. I suggest you ask the moderator to delete your posting.

I am not on trial here but perhaps you are. The 2012-13 accounts in which you appear, from my reading, to have massively overspent your budget, have not yet been approved by either an agm or an egm (section 13.3.1 of the constitution). Contrary to the constitution they are going to a council meeting instead. All this talk we've heard about rewriting the constitution - why not try following the current one instead? See if it works.

Are you really suggesting that I deliberately entered a tournament late in order to waste money from my own budget? Or are you upset that your efforts to contact multiple juniors on behalf of the IJD for the Liverpool event in December were not widely recognised or because you had minimal success. Maybe you should ask yourself why so many children didn't want to go away with you for the weekend. Maybe the rest of Chess Scotland should ask itself why so many former Chess Scotland directors are still active organisers yet refuse to work for Chess Scotland.