Christmas party!

[paigedr]

So I work as a support worker, normally there is 3 Christmas meals, one for care, one for education and the other for admin. We normally organise it ourselves and get £20 a head from the company.
This year one of the admin team has taken it upon themselves to organise a mass Christmas meal for everyone, a lot of use have decided not to go to this. (I wouldn't be able to deal with that amount of people)
We've decided as care to organise our own Christmas meal like usual however the admin lady has told us we are not entitled to our £20 if we don't go to the mass one. Is she allowed to do this?!
Anyone have any advice please?

I would guess that unless the £20 is written into your employment contract they can pay, or not pay, for whatever they like. Perhaps someone thinks there should be a greater ‘team’ emphasis across the departments??

Of course. The £20 is at the company's discretion (at least I doubt it's contractual). If the company has decided there will be one big do this year,then that's where it will go. TBh, people who insist on doing their own dept thing when the company want to get everyone together are a pita. Go or don't go, but to organise a competing do is not on imo