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it was never stated to myself or my husband that we could not continue to do things we have always done ie my comitte work for my childrens schools i have now been issued a letter with threatening information i have been comitting a criminal offence this has been as you can imagine embarracing upsetting hurtfull ect i am now unable to do this having to explain my persanal life with the schools in which i should not of had to why was this not made clear to us?

Hi, and welcome to the forum.

I am assuming that you are in an IVA.

Not sure exactly what you can and cannot do, although I would have thought that committee work would have been ok.

Hopefully one of the experts will be along to help later.

Hi
Are you in an IVA or have you declared bankruptcy ?
Regards

Hi - who sent you the letter?

Are you in an IVA or BR?

I was in an IVA for 6 years, and all through that time I was on the Governors body of my daughter's school, and in fact I was Chair of Governors for 2 years. One of the deciding factors of going down the IVA route for me was the ability to continue doing this type of activity without it being affected by my financial arrangements.
They never knew until I told the headmistress after it had all finished. And she really didnt mind, Schools need all the help they can get, so I am sure if you are still able to help them they will be more than grateful of your time. Also it gives you something to take your mind off financial matters. GOod Luck ! It is possible, I am proof !

I am really interested in this as my creditors meeting is getting close. I am a secretary on a committee and am wondering if I will need to resign now, I don't want to have to tell the pre-school what is happening I can say it's for personal reasons but I don't want to get into trouble by continuing if I am doing something wrong.

I thought you were allowed to continue if in an IVA but not if BR...hopefully one of the professionals will advise.

xx

Hi,

We are proposing an IVA, and the better half is a school governor. We took advice on this from a respectable company called Reviva UK.

Paul Johns of Reviva explained that going BR would necessitate my better half relinquishing her position as governor, but an IVA will have NO affect whatsoever on her continuing with this role.

Hi

This is more complicated than you think, I have had similar problems as I too am a governor. I have clarified that as a school govenor then in an IVA you are OK, if BR then you have to step down.

If your school is a trust school and a federation then you will not be able to be on the trust board as this is usually a charity and the charity commision is very rigid in its interpretation of rules. You have to resign. If you are involved with anything as a trustee, or a charity management group etc then you are not eleigible to continue. Unless you get the trustees to write to the charity commision and ask for a waiver, but the body that asks will have to put the case for you been involved as opposed to AN other quite well.

I find this discriminatory and have posted on this site before my views. I have written to my MP and raised it with a number of organisations I have had to resign off. It does make me view BR as the better option as it has the shortes pain time before you are able to go back on.

Sorry to ramble but it is hard to explain this issue concisely.

It seems silly to me that someone who volunteers their time and expertise can be ruled out because they have faced up to a debt problem.