The Church Times blog by his holiness, Dave Walker, carried a story last week that the Charities Commission has now invoked their powers to appoint an interim manager for St Stephen the Great (SSG), the charity that runs the former SPCK bookshops.
It’s been a long time since I blogged about the SPCK situation. In fact, this blog was mostly in the hiatus of a year or more, whilst the shops and SSG were falling into various states of disarray, Dave Walker was being threatened with legal action by the Brewers, bankruptcy (or not) in the USA for SSG and then the intervention of the Charities Commission in this country. It’s all been very sad to see the demise of this chain of shops.
You can find out more about the whole situation as it has unfolded and is unfolding on a special blog set up for that very task. Bishop Alan has also added his two-penneth yesterday.
Well, I hate to say that I told you so, but I did ask some very big questions back in October 2006 when all this first kicked off and SSG first acquired the chain that have proved to be oh so appropriate.
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