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That idea may have saved us from relegation though!
you missed out" the classic" supporters texting the subs.
That idea may have saved us from relegation though!
That idea may have saved us from relegation though!
That idea may have saved us from relegation though!
Okay so the objectives of the charity are:It's not just dedicated to disavantaged children though is it, it's something like to benefit the people of Coventry and the environs. Now obviously that will include the disadvantaged children but it isn't limited to them and could include our club. The Higgs (family not the charity) were always big supporters of the Club so hardly surprising that they wanted to help us out. The exact wording of what the charity supports can be found in the accounts (available on the Charity Commission website,) my phone has lost the last accounts that I downloaded so I can't check at the mo.lordsummerisle said:And should a charity apparently dedicated to the disadvantaged children of the Coventry Area be bailing out a club that had massively overspent?
And should a charity apparently dedicated to the disadvantaged children of the Coventry Area be bailing out a club that had massively overspent?
I'd have thought allowing children to watch CCFC is the very antithesis of child welfare!
Wer'nt the people who ran the Charity massive City Fans??
Sir Higgs and his dad (who left his money to set up the charity and is named after him) were I suspectWer'nt the people who ran the Charity massive City Fans??
Who was it who posted on here?
It was, I think I remember somebody posting saying they were PWKH's nephew.
Apparently he only ever made one post http://www.skybluestalk.co.uk/threads/28462-Confused-com?p=401088&viewfull=1#post401088 on the night of Black Thursday.
How time flies when you're not having fun.Bloody hell, that was a year ago!
The son of Sir Higgs if you were replying to me, and no idea if you weren't
A bit of topic, but the higgs charity have bought Browns bar, i might actually be allowed in .
Isn't it something to do with it being the history of coventry or something?
You mean its to do with the wider development of the area? I now seem to recall they have purchased one of the historic buildings on Bailey Lane and are doing that up as part of the development.
Browns bar sold to the Alan Edward Higgs charity
Dec 19, 2013 06:45
By Simon Gilbert
Higgs Trust says jobs are safe as it looks to relaunch pub in April 2014
One of Coventry city centre’s best known bars will be taken over by new owners today.
Browns, based in Earl Street, has been sold to the Alan Edward Higgs charity.
The purchase of the family-run business comes just weeks after it was announced the charity would be taking over nearby Draper’s Hall with a view to transforming it into a centre for performance and music.
The landmark building was opened by city businessman Ken Brown 16 years ago after moving from Browns’ original premises in Lower Precinct.
Peter Knatchbull-Hugessen, clerk of the Higgs Trust, confirmed all jobs at the bar would be safe and said it would be business as usual in the immediate future– but a relaunch was planned by April 2014.
He said: “There will be very little change in the immediate future, we will be trading just in the same way.
“We have a lot of customers and people who have been customers in the past and we want to see what they want and what there feelings about the venue are.
“We do not want to rush in to too many changes, what we need to do is go gently and softly.
“It is a well known landmark and it won’t become a Wetherspoons or a Yates’s or anything like that.”
Mr Knatchbull-Hugessen also indicated plans for the pub would aim to fit in with Coventry City Council’s multi-million pound redevelopment of the city centre.
“We want to help reinvigorate the city centre,” he said.
“The city council is spending a lot of money around the Council House and around Friargate and it needs to be animated to draw people in and that is what we mean to do.
“The charity is committed to Coventry and the economic regeneration, growth and wellbeing of the city.
“That is what the people of Coventry, need, want and have to have.”
Bar ownership represents a new challenge for the charity which has also invested in the Ricoh Arena and the Alan Higgs sports centre.
Mr Knatchbull-Hugessen said: “Whenever we do new things like this we take professional advice.
“We can make money to be invested in other city projects while also increasing employment and skills.”
The bar has sometimes courted controversy with its door policy. In 2012 it made national headlines after mourners attending a soldier’s funeral were turned away.
Rumours are that PWKH is doing the re-opening and pulling pints on the first day.
Theory is there will be enough SBT members desperate to meet their hero that it will keep the place in business for a year.
While the Rumour thread taken from GMK Is without proof and most unlikely ,the mention in that thread of Compass sources predicting something around FEB..
Is It possible there Is some Inter ACL activity Involving the Higgs element .
Would the finance mentioned In the ventures above suggest,Higgs has come Into some funds or simply regular activity from there Chest??
Wingy what do you mean by this?
i'm just curious that someone On GMK has suggested hearing something from the Compass end re something supposed to be signed and sealed Feb,so wonder If they've expanded their stake with an Injection .
They took 25% of IEC another facet of ACL previously to fund the hotel expansion ETC for £4M. Higgs are now doing other ventures .
Just thinking out loud 2+2 =5
it should be sisu heading for the hills never to be seen again. ( one can but hope ).Shall be watching the outcome with intrepidation! if its found in SISU favour that Higgs were partly responsible for Engineering for the breakdown in talks you will see some CCC people heading for the hills
Shall be watching the outcome with intrepidation! if its found in SISU favour that Higgs were partly responsible for Engineering for the breakdown in talks you will see some CCC people heading for the hills
Just a thought but could the Sisu paranoia about PWKH have a hand in all this? We know that they're concerned about him being able to post with a second username on here because of MMM getting contact from the lawyers. So could the fact that he represents the Higgs as well as being on the board of and spokesperson of ACL have something to do with it. Along of course with what OSB58 said.
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