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£1,700, Including Grant Money, Stolen from the Kebele Bike Workshop by Former Volunteer

category bristol | miscellaneous | press release author Saturday March 29, 2008 14:06author by Kebele Social Centreauthor email kebelesocialcentre at riseup dot net Report this post to the editors

The well-known Kebele Bike Workshop, serving the community for more than 11 years, was ripped off by a former volunteer earlier this month.
Harvey Tadman, who over the past year had been heavily involved in the daily operation and organization of the bike workshop, and also well-known through Critical Mass and the St. Werburghs’s Bike Project, emptied the workshop’s account on 14 March.

The well-known Kebele Bike Workshop, serving the community for more than 11 years, was ripped off by a former volunteer earlier this month.
Harvey Tadman, who over the past year had been heavily involved in the daily operation and organization of the bike workshop, and also well-known through Critical Mass and the St. Werburghs’s Bike Project, emptied the workshop’s account on 14 March. He had no authority to do so, having been asked to leave both the Kebele Co-op and the Bike Workshop at the beginning of February.
The money stolen included a £900 grant that was given to the Kebele Bike Workshop specifically to run bike maintenance classes, on the basis of an application made by Tadman, by the Easton Neighbourhood Renewal scheme.
He was able to withdraw the money from the Bike Workshop account, protected by needing two signatures for transactions, by illicitly adding someone unrelated to Kebele to the account two days before making the withdrawal.
In a text message to Kebele members, Tadman wrote, ‘The resources stay to maintain/support bikes in Easton’. When confronted by Kebele members on 21 March, Tadman claimed that he had contacted the funders, and that they had given him permission to use the grant money ‘elsewhere’. Neither Easton Neighbourhood Renewal not grant managers Quartet Community Funding could confirm any contact from Tadman, and he has refused to provide any proof.
Kebele contacted Tadman and demanded that the money be returned in full, both the money belonging to the Bike Workshop and Kebele as a whole, and the grant money, designated for use by Kebele Bike Workshop. He has not responded.
Kebele has decided to release this information publicly as we feel we have a responsibility to warn other groups with whom this individual might be involved. Other organizations, workshops, and community groups should take note that if Harvey Tadman offers any resources, in the form of money, bike tools, parts, or other, they are stolen property. He is not to be trusted.

 #   Title   Author   Date 
   Good to see this info made public     Not surprised    Sun Mar 30, 2008 00:41 
   I'll reserve judgement on this one.     Tony    Sun Mar 30, 2008 12:06 
   tututut     liberty    Sun Mar 30, 2008 15:59 
   Its as as clear as newly run bath     psychclist    Sun Mar 30, 2008 17:01 
   Don't understand.     Norm    Sun Mar 30, 2008 18:31 
   sad what he has done     Emma    Sun Mar 30, 2008 21:45 
   let's hear your side harvey     Skippy    Mon Mar 31, 2008 10:29 
   a witch hunt     concerned of Whitehall    Mon Mar 31, 2008 14:45 
   Hypcrisy     Rik    Mon Mar 31, 2008 17:51 
 10   Whatever Harvey may or may not have done...     Tony    Mon Mar 31, 2008 19:22 
 11   some clarification please     pedant power    Tue Apr 01, 2008 15:57 
 12   neither cops nor vigilanism     (A) Sab x    Tue Apr 01, 2008 20:32 
 13   tricky     slootz    Wed Apr 02, 2008 17:56 
 14   Hoping against hope...     Tony    Wed Apr 02, 2008 19:09 
 15   all this is nasty     judge judy    Sat Apr 05, 2008 15:45 
 16   judge judy, i think you're right     Tony    Sat Apr 05, 2008 20:00 
 17   It's dificult...     Alice    Tue Apr 08, 2008 08:56 
 18   In response to comments     Kebele Social Centre    Tue Apr 08, 2008 21:15 
 19   Well done kebele!     Solid    Tue Apr 08, 2008 23:00 
 20   a suggestion     A canteen style lawyer    Wed Apr 09, 2008 07:18 
 21   To quote Kebele :-     Tony    Wed Apr 09, 2008 08:02 
 22   Not over yet     John    Wed Apr 09, 2008 08:46 
 23   in defense     Ornella    Thu Oct 02, 2008 09:18 


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