I think Chris Powell and the Club should make sure they are at the top table for this event which takes place on Thursday, July 25, 2013 at 7 Bedford Row, London WC1R
http://www.eventbrite.co.uk/event/5496255448# At the moment it feels like QPR International PLC, and Harry Redknapp are pulling London's Kick It Out strings, and that Charlton Athletic's unique FARE network story, that for me personally goes all the way back 42 years to Ben Odeje the first black footballer to play for England at any level, is not being given the recognition and associated reward that this critical Thames Gateway, City Challenge development case deserves.
NB Don't be excluded as a host of experts working across football, business and law will come together to share their experiences and discuss how workforce diversity presents a genuine business opportunity
http://forum.charltonlife.com/discussion/55316/ben-odeje#latest 
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At the recent Sidelined-2-Sidelines (S2S) conference at Loftus Road Troy Townsend Kick It Out's 'Mentoring & Leadership Project Manager' talked about "opening doors and breaking down barriers"
I've also suggested that Troy Townsend and I meet up in early August, at the Stephen Lawrence Gallery, Queen Anne's Court, University of Greenwich SE10, where good people such as the artist in residence Alev Adil, and the Anglo-Nigerian artist and curator Karl Ohiri, have supported me to the point where my long fight for FARE JUSTICE NOT VENGEANCE 1991-2013 has led to the major breakthroughs detailed on the Charlton Life message board BEN ODEJE thread http://forum.charltonlife.com/discussion/55316/ben-odeje#latest
In the 1985/86 season I was Ist XI captain for Old Addeyans FC who played in the London Old Boys League. Nelson Mandela was still in prison when as a newly qualified Chartered Surveyor for the UNITY PROJECT in the London Borough of Southwark I involved the black film producer Faith Isiakpere, my old school friend from Addey & Stanhope School after discovering that the trade literature was headed up COON DISCO This in turn led to the development of the Channel 4 film 'The Crossing', a story which drew upon our Peckham High Street experiences, to tell the transposed story about a white man who helped the ANC in South Africa. After 'The Crossing' I involved another former Addey & Stanhope School pupil with the UNITY PROJECT, Ezra Attia's black interior designer Elaine Tomlinson was engaged to transform the building's grim unfinished interior. I first played football against Ben Odeje in Deptford's Brookmill Park in 1967, when Ben was playing for Lucas Vale Primary School, & I was playing for Tidemill on the 'red gra' football pitch that no longer exists, we later played together for Charlton Athletic on the 1972 tour to Le Havre in France . Today in Brookmill Road you will find a stunning piece of architecture that is the Stephen Lawrence Centre http://www.stephenlawrence.org.uk/about-us/the-centre/ which is home to the Stephen Lawrence Charitable Trust who are developing the UNITY theme further with UNITY A CONCERT FOR STEPHEN LAWRENCE http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=XBh4oyDpEw8&safe=active
Doreen Lawrence has asked me to keep the good work as my legal battle for justice began 2 years before Stephen was murdered.
Roy,
I have been forwarded an email which concerns me, which has come via one of our event partners.
The event on Thursday is not an opportunity for anyone to discuss campaigns, no matter how noble they are, unrelated to the subject at hand, and is solely focussed on football business.
In addition, we are now oversubscribed with practitioners working in the football industry, and therefore need to prioritise these individuals.
To that end, we have taken your name off the list for Thursday’s event. We also feel that your objectives for attending aren’t in line with the tone of the event itself. This has been proved on a number of email communications.
As previously suggested, I would be happy to meet you at another more appropriate time.
Kind regards
Troy Townsend
Mentoring & Leadership Project Manager
Kick It Out | 4th Floor | 1-5 Clerkenwell Road | London | EC1M 5PA
Tel: 020 7253 0162 Fax: 020 7253 5579
www.kickitout.org
Here is my response :
Troy Townsend
Mentoring & Leadership Project Manager
Kick It Out | 4th Floor | 1-5 Clerkenwell Road | London | EC1M 5PA
Dear Mr Townsend
I am pleased that The Work Foundation forwarded you the UNLOCK DEMOCRACY email that I copied them into yesterday.
You say that the Embrace diversity....and build your winning team event on Thursday is solely focused on football business, and you then go on to exclude me from the event, an individual who has recently made a major contribution to the breaking of the suppressed story regarding my former Charlton Athletic Le Havre Tour team mate Ben Odeje, the first black footballer to play for England at any level, who suffered being called a "liar" for 42 years.
As an individual and sole principle in private practice, I also possess a leading case for the defence against police backed NF/BNP entry-ism into London's Sporting/Planning Arena, this over 22 years after discovering that the odious NF/BNP leadership were being allowed to use the Old Addeyans FC/Densitron International PLC clubhouse development, for their malevolent 'planning for real meetings'. Prior to the case being referred to the Met Commissioner's Office in 2004, by John Austin the former MP for Erith & Thamesmead, Lucy Faulkner the FA's Ethics and Sports Equity Manager obtained a confession from Old Addeyans FC which was at the time a major breakthrough, and which has subsequently allowed me to progress the case even further, first to the Home Secretary's Office, and now to the point that we have arrived at today where the IPCC have upheld my appeal against the non-recording of my complaint against the Met Commissioner Sir Bernard Hogan-Howe, by Stephen Greenhalgh the Deputy Mayor for Policing and Crime, with the IPCC referrinng the complaint back to MOPAC's Professional Standards. All of this is critical football related business, which as football doesn't exist in isolation, also has wider relevance to Thames Gateway, City Challenge developments here in South East London which I have been involved with since inception.
Today I have received a related letter from Bexleyheath Police Station, and I have also heard on the radio that we have a new woman QC as head of the CPS who represented the Lawrence Family in their fight for JUSTICE NOT VENGEANCE, and on the same radio broadcast it was also announced that Nicholas Jacobs (44) has been charged with the murder of PC Keith Blakelock some 28years after his murder on Broadwater Farm in Tottenham.
CHRIST HELP US!
Yours sincerely
Roy Hobson http://www.mixcloud.com/roy-hobson/ aka "Vesper"
You should turn your good efforts to breaking down the race barriers in cricket, polo, swimming, rugby, hockey and golf. Where are all the black players & coaches in those sports?
Football has been in my blood since I first played as a 10 year old for Father Owen Beament's all conquering St Paul's Boys team in 1966, when I lived at 179 Deptford Church Street SE8. I have no valuable INSIDER experiences to contribute directly to the sports you mention, that is not the case with football, where I have a wealth of valuable professional experiences to share, including those that occurred yesterday at the Embrace diversity....and build your winning team event at 7 Bedford Row, WC1R London, where I updated Spurs supporter Paul Eeles the Senior Civil Clerk, and Simeon Maskrey QC who is Head of Chambers at 7 Bedford Row http://www.7br.co.uk/barristers-and-staff-profiles/simeon-maskrey-qc.asp . Simeon Maskrey was once a pupil of the Hon Mr Justice Goldring.
Here is an email that I sent to the IPCC on Tuesday, 25 June 2013, 10:56 :
Subject: Re: IPCC response RE: COMPLAINT AGAINST THE COMMISSIONER OF THE METROPOLIS, BERNARD HOGAN-HOWE : IPCC ref 2013/004376 : MOPAC/CC/2012/RH21
Dear Kathryn Lawcook
Thank you for your email.
I fully understand the IPCC's situation with regard to my critical Old Addeyans FC case for the defence against police backed NF/BNP entry-ism into London's Sporting/Planning Arena 1991-2013.
In the past Mehmuda Mian Pritchard was the IPCC Commissioner who dealt with my individual Thames Gateway, City Challenge development case, after it had reached the Met Commissioner's Office when it was occupied by Lord Blair, who I subsequently defeated in a related Judicial Review in Court No 1 of the Royal Courts of Justice before the Hon Mr Justice Goldring on the 28th February 2007.
My case involving the Met Police in South East London began in 1991, two years before Stephen Lawrence was murdered in 1993, and Stephen's mother Doreen has asked me to keep up the good work, as she recognises the significance of my associated fight for FARE JUSTICE NOT VENGEANCE.
I believe that I have a professional duty of care to keep the IPCC fully updated, so that any correspondence that I send can be absorbed by you, and placed on file under the most recent reference number.
Yours sincerely
Roy Hobson http://www.mixcloud.com/roy-hobson/ aka "Vesper"
ROY HOBSON CInstCES1990, Grad Dipl QS 1981
Chris Powell and the Club should note that my associated meeting with Clark Carlise, the current chairman of the Professional Footballers' Association, will form the subject of my next post here on Charlton Life.