Income from and expenditure on Bowling Clubs

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Dear Croydon Borough Council,

Please provide documents showing separately, the monies received from each of the 8 London Borough of Croydon Bowling Clubs in respect of the years ended 31 March 2018 and 31 March 2019. Please analyse the monies received to indicate what was paid over by each Bowling Club by way of Membership Fees and categorize any other monies paid over.

Please also provide an analysis of all the expenditure laid out on behalf of each of the 8 Bowling Clubs in the years ended 31 March 2018 and 31 March 2019 to include, but not limited to, lighting, heating, water rates, general running costs etc

Yours faithfully,

Graham Mitchell

Croydon Council,

FOI/EIR request
Our reference: 520457

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Dear Croydon Council,

Can you please respond?

Yours sincerely,

Norbury Brook

Dear Croydon Council,

Your response is late. By law you were required to respond by 7 October 2019. I find your lack of action vexatious. The information should be readily available to you and ergo, to me.

Will you please respond without further delay.

Yours sincerely,

Graham Mitchell

Dear Croydon Borough Council,

Please pass this on to the person who conducts Freedom of Information reviews.

I am writing to request an internal review of Croydon Borough Council's handling of my FOI request 'Income from and expenditure on Bowling Clubs'.

Your response is late...very late. I will allow you a little time to respond , but only for 7 working days and then I will refer the matter to the ICO. I look forward to hearing from you

A full history of my FOI request and all correspondence is available on the Internet at this address: https://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/i...

Yours faithfully,

Graham Mitchell

Croydon Council,

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FOI/EIR request
Our reference: 520457

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Dear Graham Mitchell
 
Thank you for your request for information received on 10 September 2019.
 
Please find attached our response to your request.
 
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Dear Croydon Borough Council,

Thank you for the information in relation to the year ended 31 March 2019 (2018/19).

Please pass this on to the person who conducts Freedom of Information reviews.

I am writing to request an internal review of Croydon Borough Council's handling of my FOI request 'Income from and expenditure on Bowling Clubs'.

My request also asked for the income and expenditure from the bowling clubs for the year ended 31 March 2018 - can you please provide this information forthwith.

A full history of my FOI request and all correspondence is available on the Internet at this address: https://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/i...

Yours faithfully,

Graham Mitchell

Bhatt, Meera,

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Dear Mr. Mitchell,

Internal Review of FOI Request

Further to your email dated 8 November 2019, in which you requested an
Internal Review of the Council’s response to your request for information,
I have now concluded this review and I am able to reply as follows.

In your request for Internal Review, you asked the Council to reconsider
your request as you had not been provided with all of the information
requested.

In your request for information dated 10 September 2019, you requested the
following information:

“Please provide documents showing separately, the monies received from
each of the 8 London Borough of Croydon Bowling Clubs in respect of the
years ended 31 March 2018 and 31 March 2019. Please analyse the monies
received to indicate what was paid over by each Bowling Club by way of

Membership Fees and categorize any other monies paid over.

Please also provide an analysis of all the expenditure laid out on behalf
of each of the 8 Bowling Clubs in the years ended 31 March 2018 and 31
March 2019 to include, but not limited to, lighting, heating, water rates,
general running costs etc”

The Council responded to you on the 7 November 2019 and provided the
following response:

Your request has been considered under the provisions of the Freedom of
Information

Act. Please accept my apologies for the delay in responding to you.
Specifically, you

have requested the following information:

1.· Please provide documents showing separately, the monies received from
each of the 8 London Borough of Croydon Bowling Clubs in respect of the
years ended 31 March 2018 and 31 March 2019. Please analyse the monies
received to indicate what was paid over by each Bowling Club by way of
Membership Fees and categorize any other monies paid over.

The bowls clubs pay the Council annual fees under a group license, held by
The Croydon

Parks Bowls Association. Annual fees for 2018/2019 received by the Croydon
Parks

Bowls Association to Croydon Council are below:

2018/2019

Income £15,639.27

2. Please also provide an analysis of all the expenditure laid out on
behalf of each of the 8 Bowling Clubs in the years ended 31 March 2018 and
31 March 2019 to include, but not limited to, lighting, heating, water
rates, general running costs etc

We are unable to provide separate monies received from each club, as we
receive a

collective income from the Association, please see this in the table
below.

Site 2018/2019

Norwood Grove £3,269.19

South Norwood Lake £7,408.45

Grangewood £4,719.65

Thornton Heath Recreation Ground £3,602.59

Ashburton Park £2,804.20

Lloyd Park £11,347.20

Shirley Church Recreation Ground £4,691.50

Milne Park £4,669.22

Coulsdon Memorial Ground £5,018.33

Sanderstead Recreation Ground £3,689.59

South Norwood Recreation Ground £6,550,99

Total £57,770.91

Notes

No gas or electric included in 18/19 costs

Above costs exclude LBC in house staff activities

and support services.

Above costs exclude maintenance backlog and

condition related elements.

Costs are based on new FM operating model.

In your request for an Internal Review dated 8 November 2019, you stated
the following:

“Dear Croydon Borough Council,

Thank you for the information in relation to the year ended 31 March 2019
(2018/19).

Please pass this on to the person who conducts Freedom of Information
reviews.

I am writing to request an internal review of Croydon Borough Council's
handling of my FOI request 'Income from and expenditure on

Bowling Clubs'.

My request also asked for the income and expenditure from the bowling
clubs for the year ended 31 March 2018 - can you please provide this
information forthwith.

A full history of my FOI request and all correspondence is available on
the Internet at this address:

https://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/i...

On receiving your request for an Internal Review, I contacted the Active
Lifestyles Service who has provided additional information in answer to
the issues raised in your Internal Review.

The information you requested as part of your original Freedom of
Information request is outlined below.

┌───────────┬───────────┬───────────┐
│ │2017/2018 │2018/2019 │
├───────────┼───────────┼───────────┤
│Income │£16,518.30 │£15,639.27 │
├───────────┼───────────┼───────────┤
│Expenditure│£198,343.35│£57,770.91 │
│- FM │ │(no gas, │
│ │ │water or │
│ │ │electricity│
│ │ │included) │
├───────────┼───────────┼───────────┤
│Expenditure│£126,516.16│£126,516.16│
│- Grounds │ │ │
│Maintenance│ │ │
│(figure │ │ │
│from 18/19)│ │ │
└───────────┴───────────┴───────────┘

I apologise that all the information you requested was not provided in our
initial response. This was an oversight on our behalf. However I hope this
now answers your query.

If you are not content with the outcome of the Internal Review, you have
the right to apply directly to the Information Commissioner for a
decision. The Information Commissioner can be contacted at:

Information Commissioner’s Office

Wycliffe House

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Cheshire SK9 5AF

Yours sincerely,

Meera Bhatt

Trainee Solicitor

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