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I have been on the committe of our local playgroup for 2 years.
I suspect the playleader is not very honest as far as money is concerned .
Many examples but here are a few. she produced handwritten receipts in her own writing for £100 for a second hand dolls house which I have seen in toys R us costing £70 new .Without telling anyone else She claimed on behalf of the playgroup for a grant for cover staff for when she was at college.But then by telling the dim treasurer it was all for books and travel kept the money herself.
To cap it all she nattered and nattered for a petty cash float .We gave her £100 and within a matter of days the float disappeared from a cuboard only our group have the keys for.The cupboard was locked up again after the 'theft' and so was the cash tin.She didn't want the police called straightaway.
Now to my horror I have found out that the treasurer has resigned and they have made this woman signatory to the bank account and internet access to pay the wages which doesn't require another signatory ( she works out the wages herself..We have over £30k in the account.
I don't know what to do without slandering the woman because I do not know 100% that she is dishonest , it is just my interpretation of things that have gone on.WWYD ?

Who is the other signatory on the bank account? or the other named person? there must be someone? I'd get them to go with you and as many other committee members as possible to go to the bank and ask them to freeze the account as a matter of urgency.

I'd be amazed if your group's constitution and the charity commissions regulations allowed staff to be signatories to the account. I'm sure if you explain the situation in confidence to the bank they'd put a stop to withdrawls until the committee have time to sort things out properly.

I'd also speak to the ex-treasurer. I'm fairly sure that legally they are responsible until their post is filled by someone else. They can't just hand over to the leader anyway, the bank details should have been passed back to the committee. I'd be strongly suggesting they spoke to the bank and got the account frozen ASAP

What a !

Normally we have 3 signatories - the chair,the treasurer and one member of staff who is not at all involved with the finances.Therefore at least one of the trustees has to sign for every transaction.Now we have a situation where 2 members of staff can sign !!

so your leader with potentially (!) dubious morals is the person that works out the wages and has the ability to pay herself via the internet banking without any other signatory?

please go to the bank first thing tomorrow with as many other committee members as you can get hold of

if nothing else get the online banking payments facility stopped, that way at least someone else will have to sign too