Gadget
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As you know I help run a hobbyist group. We have a committee and sponsors. The committee runs stuff, the sponsors donate a raffle prize, and supposedly promote us. We put their logo on our literature etc and advertise them.
Last year the behaviour of one of our sponsors was becoming more and more erratic and detrimental to our group. He was also being a bit abusive to my oh who is the chair.
We held a closed meeting to discuss what should be done with it all and a discussion about said sponsor was had. An agreement was formed and a committee member was selected to discuss things with the sponsor. Unfortunately it transpires that the discussion that was had was not the one agreed upon, leaving an extremely angry sponsor and us with no clue.
It recently came about when that committee member came to us with 'anonymous feedback' that sounded very much like said sponsor in full rant mode. He claimed it wasn't them but it prompted my oh to make a phone call to sponsor to find out what was going on, all was sorted with the information being put right etc.
My oh returned to the committee forum to report the good news back to the committee that all was sorted, just then the phone rang and it was the sponsor livid and beside himself, that he was still being blamed and we had no rights talking about him refusing to be calmed or reassured or acknowledge the fact that we could as the group committee discuss him in our committee area regarding his capacity as a sponsor and whether his personal behaviour was detrimental to the group. He knew we were discussing him as X the committee member had rung him up and told him all about it and told us several things about other committee discussions he should not have known unless he had been told by member and stated X has told me all about.... It ended with him insisting we needed lawyers as he was going to sue for defamation , libel etc . Needless to say we terminated his sponsorship and association with the group.
Now we are facing having to deal with a committee member we can't trust who has caused serious problems for us personally and for the group. We aren't sure what to do with them. We don't think the legal threat is any good as all discussion should have been confidential and was certainly not in public.
Any thoughts?
Last year the behaviour of one of our sponsors was becoming more and more erratic and detrimental to our group. He was also being a bit abusive to my oh who is the chair.
We held a closed meeting to discuss what should be done with it all and a discussion about said sponsor was had. An agreement was formed and a committee member was selected to discuss things with the sponsor. Unfortunately it transpires that the discussion that was had was not the one agreed upon, leaving an extremely angry sponsor and us with no clue.
It recently came about when that committee member came to us with 'anonymous feedback' that sounded very much like said sponsor in full rant mode. He claimed it wasn't them but it prompted my oh to make a phone call to sponsor to find out what was going on, all was sorted with the information being put right etc.
My oh returned to the committee forum to report the good news back to the committee that all was sorted, just then the phone rang and it was the sponsor livid and beside himself, that he was still being blamed and we had no rights talking about him refusing to be calmed or reassured or acknowledge the fact that we could as the group committee discuss him in our committee area regarding his capacity as a sponsor and whether his personal behaviour was detrimental to the group. He knew we were discussing him as X the committee member had rung him up and told him all about it and told us several things about other committee discussions he should not have known unless he had been told by member and stated X has told me all about.... It ended with him insisting we needed lawyers as he was going to sue for defamation , libel etc . Needless to say we terminated his sponsorship and association with the group.
Now we are facing having to deal with a committee member we can't trust who has caused serious problems for us personally and for the group. We aren't sure what to do with them. We don't think the legal threat is any good as all discussion should have been confidential and was certainly not in public.
Any thoughts?
