Court Day 2: Judgement Day

Statement about to be issued but just to clarify, sale of club is subject to approval from The Football League.

y2johnny wrote:Sports Shield in joint venture with accountant Bruce Gordon. Looks like shares are split 50-50. That has been kept very hush hush

Could be this man?

Partner in a Private Equity Company

Bruce Gordon

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Until 2008, Bruce was a senior audit partner with Deloitte & Touche LLP and was a member of the Board of Partners and the Partner in charge of the southern region.

Bruce’s clients included a number of FTSE 100 companies as well as some of Deloitte’s largest global clients.

Bruce now runs a Thames Valley Capital Ltd which advises a venture capital fund and several high growth companies.

Prior to Deloitte, Bruce was a Partner in Arthur Andersen, where he managed the UK regional practice.

Since 1997, Bruce has been Honorary Treasurer for the Guide Dogs for the Blind Association, one of the largest charities in the UK. He is also Chairman, and a founder, of the Honorary Treasurers Forum, a charity that promotes governance and education for Honorary Treasurers.


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Since 1997, Bruce has been Honorary Treasurer for the Guide Dogs for the Blind Association.

Handy for Madine.

So where's all the car-park / Euxton money gone then...?

Breadman wrote:So where's all the car-park / Euxton money gone then...?

To the owner of said goodies

bruce gordon article

C&IT spoke with Thames Valley Group's Bruce Gordon, who invested in Anita Lowe's new agency Venues and Events International in March, which she launched after parting with Bluehat Group.



[size=14]How did Thames Valley Capital partner with Anita Lowe and Venues and Events International?

Gordon: We are a FCA regulated private equity firm. We started eight years ago to invest in growth companies in the medium and long term. It takes around seven to ten years for a company to reach its true potential and those are the companies we are looking at.

Two years ago we had a meeting to see what the next big growth opportunity would be and we decided that the meetings and events sector was it. I was introduced to Anita a few years ago and we spoke about the industry and she input her own knowledge into our investment research on the events industry. The opportunity arose when she set up her own agency and she approached us. With a team of ten people and an office in Swindon, we decided to back her.



What is the ambition for the agency?

Gordon: Our ambition is to be within the top 20 agencies for client spend within three years. I believe that Anita’s growth thesis of offering a personalised service rather than a transaction-by-transaction service will attract the top blue-chip clients.

Lowe: The feedback we’ve had so far has been really positive and not just with clients we’ve worked with previously. We’re going to tender with clients that we haven’t worked with before and we’re seeing more interest in this boutique agency approach.

For example, we’re working with Intuit for the AccountEx event at ExCel London next week and they’ve expressed that they want to work with us on a longer-term basis.

We’re already taking bookings for next year. Our clients are working with longer lead times, with events booked for both early and late next year, as well as a number of businesses using our venue-finding service.

How will you be marketing yourselves against other competing agencies?

Gordon: It’s important that we come out to the market as a full-service offering agency, as opposed to having a niche venues and events offering. With this in mind, we have now have partnerships in travel, teambuilding, learning and development and with a creative agency. This is what Anita says we need to be able to offer this kind of service.

The agency started with ten employees; will you be growing your team?

Gordon: We’ve employed a marketing manager and a financial expert who specialises in the industry and we will be appointing an events manager in the next few days. We would like a team of 20 people within the next three years across the whole events management business and venue-finding business. We are in the market for talented people who have a good knowledge of the industry. We’re not looking for starters.

What is the main focus for the rest of this year?

Lowe: The most important focus for us over the next six months is our team and making sure they’re getting the best knowledge and experience in the industry. I believe that this is coming out of the events industry and people are not giving the right advice on venues and events strategy.




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jim white

Sports Shield consortium will put £10m into bwfc until end of season - £7.5m to start with.

We're poor! Again. Woohoo

iles just tweeted:

Eddie Davies to become club president


if that is supposed to be a joke he wants sacking. if it is true,..........fuck it, still sack iles

Birch just shown on SSN leaving court with a microphone shoved in his face but not stopping to chat.

And to be honest, he looked more like a man who'd just been found guilty of rape than someone who'd just helped (allegedly) "save" BWFC.

Something's still not right with all this and I dread to think what's going to come out over the next two weeks....

Apparently a few more things that came out of the hearing -

HMRC stated that £7.5M not enough to cover agreed outstanding debts & said club insoluble

HMRC brought up the 'Emerson Group' sale pointing out that it didn't actually take place and that car parks not sold.

Judge was explicit in court that ALL secured and unsecured debt, in particular HMRC must be paid off with sale or club will be wound up.

Judge concerned with Witness Statement being vague over unsecured creditors and HMRC debt not being settled.

Bruce Wayne? inspector Gordon? Holy made up names off the top of my head to buy us some time Batman!

That would have been even better if you'd put "Wholly" instead of Holy.

The Batman theme would have remained intact but you'd have got a free pun in as well.

Missed opportunity.....