Dulwich Hamlet FC

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The last game of the 2019-20 season, saw the men’s team register a comeback from behind home win against Hemel Hempstead Town in front of 2,376 spectators at Champion Hill. This result put them in 16th place in the 22 team National League South table. As it would contrive, this would be the final league position as eventually all National League clubs voted to end the season immediately in Mid-April. The Women’s team ended their inaugural season in late March, following the Football Associations announcement to conclude Women’s football below the third tier. In the final table, the team was sitting at the top of the league and had been planning for their Capital Senior Cup semifinal, against fellow South London team Crystal Palace, when the season ended. Whilst there is currently no confirmed date for the resumption of the men’s football, the Women’s team have started training and have already completed a couple of behind doors preseasonal friendlies. Updates can be found on the club official website www.dulwichhamlet.co.uk . On Monday, 27 July one of the most significant off-field events in the Club’s recent history took place, when the Southwark Council worked with the club to make the development Planning Committee sat to decide the outcome viable. Thanks’ must also go to those members of the Football Club’s joint planning application of the Club and DHST who worked so tirelessly to re-develop Champion Hill and provide the towards this application, plus all our many club with a new stadium adjacent to the current supporters’ and community members who ground. wrote to the Council lodging their support of the With the meeting being streamed online proposed plans. and being described, by those watching, as On the Saturday before the Planning feeling like the longest penalty shoot-out in Committee meeting, DHST and the Club’s Hamlet history, eventually the Football Club got Community Committee took part in the first the result we so all desperately wanted as the Football Pride online festival. On 25 July, application was approved by the Southwark representatives from the club, DHST and Women’s Council Planning Committee. team hosted an online panel event discussing the The new stadium will not only now secure community driven ethos of Dulwich Hamlet FC the long-term future of the Football Club but and its key message that we are football club that will also provide modern sports facilities for welcomes all. The panel discussed our previous local teams, schools and the community of East and current LGBTQ+ initiatives and fielded a Dulwich. number of questions from the online audience. Thanks’ must go to all the members of the The Football Pride Festival was an initiative Planning Committee who so carefully assessed of the Football v Homophobia Campaign, who the application, and all of the council officers to DHST and Dulwich Hamlet have been supporters’

of for many years. Football v Homophobia is an international initiative that exists to challenge discrimination based on sexual orientation gender identity and expression at all levels of football. Lou Englefield, Director of Pride Sports and one of the organisers of the event said, “The work that DHST and Dulwich Hamlet have done to support the LGBTIQ+ community in and through football has been outstanding. Not only do they create a welcoming environment at Champion Hill, but they have raised thousands of pounds for LGBTIQ+ causes. They are fantastic allies for LGBTIQ+ people” Recently it was announced that The Kail Foundation has been entered onto the Register of Charities with the Registered Charity Number 1189492. This now means the Football Club now has an official charity to represent all of the community initiatives they would like to develop

within East Dulwich and surrounding areas. The Kail Foundation will be continuing to build upon the club’s successful community initiatives and outreach work. This development of our community work will enable Dulwich Hamlet Football Club to have an even wider impact on the local community. The Kail Foundation will be the umbrella that all Dulwich Hamlet FC’s community work will fall under. The foundation will work closely with the club (Men’s and Women’s teams) as well as DHST run initiatives that will benefit the local community in Southwark as well as the neighbouring boroughs. Finally, whilst there may currently be no football in East Dulwich, don’t forget you can still support the club by either purchasing merchandise from the online shop run by DHST www.dhfcshop.co.uk or joining the Club’s lottery, The 100 Club via https://dhst.org.uk.

Financial Matters

With David Frederick FCCA | Marcus Bishop Associates | marcus-bishop.com

Is there a will or not?

"The pain of the loss in some households was exacerbated where members had died without a will"

The last few months may have been perhaps the most difficult times encountered by most households. This was especially the case for households who had bereavements and modified funeral arrangements due to compliance with social distancing. The pain of the loss in some households was exacerbated where members had died without a will. Let’s look at the case of Veronica who was building an emerging portfolio of buy-to-let properties but sadly passed during the period of Stay-At-Home without a will. Veronica’s brother Gareth decided as his sister was unmarried, estranged from her two children in the UK and her youngest son (aged 29) was overseas he would take responsibility for arranging her funeral and contacted her bank, to release some funds to pay for his sister’s funeral. Prima facie Gareth’s behaviour, may appear wholly innocent and what one might have expected from a caring brother following the death of his sister. However, Gareth had not recognised that his actions were at odds with the death of a person intestate. This is the term assigned to anyone who dies without a will. They are deemed to have died ‘intestate.’ The Rules of Intestacy in England and Wales, sets out who can apply to the Court for Letters of Administration to bring closure to the deceased’s estate. Siblings are ranked fourth in the hierarchy of the classes of individuals who can take responsibility for the estate. The first three classes of individuals are as follows: 1) Spouse/Civil Partners 2) Children 3) Parents It is also necessary to state that in some instances the siblings may be fifth in line. This may arise if the children of the deceased had predeceased and were survived by their own children. Gareth readily accepted his new learning and his misunderstanding of the legal position following his sister’s death. It was most fortuitous of Gareth to recognise his position as the story was about to radically change. Several days later, Veronica’s youngest son, Greg, arrived in the UK. It was both a surprise but pleasing to learn in discussion that his mother had made a will. Moreover, she had hand delivered him a copy earlier this year on her last visit. The tale ended with Greg being able to obtain the original will from the firm of solicitors. This enabled a seamless process to obtain the Grant of Probate rather than Letters of Administration. The arrival of Greg and the additional facts helped transform the case and provide monetary and time savings for the family. In addition, this case presents three key learning outcomes for the planning and administration of estates. Firstly, whilst we all enjoy the secrecy of our personal life, it may just be good practice to save our loved ones time and money, if we share with them two estate planning basics: (i) we have made a will and (ii) where it is located. The presence of a will and its location reduces the time, cost and stress following the loss of a loved one. This allows the executors of the will to apply for a Grant of Probate rather than apply the Law of Intestacy to obtain Letters of Administration. Reducing any unnecessary additional costs to the estate is always a preferable option for the beneficiaries of the estate. Finally, it is most premature to conclude that a person has died intestate, before fully moving heaven and earth and undertaking due diligence to fully exhaust the will search exercise. Gareth’s fortunes could have been so much more painful, financially, had it not been for the arrival of his nephew to complete the story. Perhaps, the real lesson is it’s never about how fast but how well the estate administration is undertaken.

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