Rolling Contract for the MMT from 1999 (11 Feb 2010)
Sunday, June 1st, 2008
According to the minutes of the ninth Meeting in 1999, members of the English Sports Council (government quango) voted on a paper (ESC 99/9.3) which outlined proposed changes to the contractual position at Plas-y-Brenin (given to the British Mountaineering Council (BMC) and the Association of British Mountain Guides (BMG) a commercial organisation with less than a perfect safety record where its mountain clients are concerned, for nil consideration in 1997) the National Mountain Centre. The purpose of the changes was to – strengthen the capability of Mountain Training Trust Ltd (cobbled together in order to control not only the management of PyB but to also control £450,000 yearly of government hand-outs) in carrying out operations at the centre Mr Marshall con-firmed the success that MTT had enjoyed in running the centre (assisted greatly by the above mentioned huge amount of government subsidy). Council agreed to the contractual changes, including the introduction of a rolling contract (no doubt in line with another EC Directive?) to 2006, proposals for MTT to retain small surpluses, and the introduction of – more rigorous (capture an even larger slice of the outdoor pursuit market assisted with government money) targets. Council also agreed that the new arrangements should be implemented from 1 October, 1999 and commended John Davies and Ian Holmes, of Sport England’s National Centres Unit, for the excellent work they had undertaken in this (disgraceful) matter. The way in which PyB was given away for nil consideration against an EC Directive and the way in which the management was snatched away from Glendale Leisure (who originally won the contract) and the abuse they then received from the BMC throught the pages of its official magazine – High Mountain Sport will be to the eternal disgrace of the English Sports Council… During the previous twenty years, when PyB was also run by members of the BMG, PyB lost 100′s of 1,000′s of £ due to poor management . As a reward – they now have a rolling contract to 2006 along with least – £3,150,000 with which to compete quite unfaily – on the open market…
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