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Donate to the Fighting Fund

The "Lee Fighting Fund"

Contributions are gratefully received from (aviation or non-aviation) individuals or parties who want the Department for Transport's Daedalus airfield operated as a general aviation airfield open for shared public aviation and community uses, alongside priority operations such as Coastguard and Hampshire Constabulary operational sorties.

1) The “Lee Fighting Fund” contains contributions from supporters used by the Lee Flying Association Committee in its efforts to establish general aviation and community shared use of the airfield. This fund pays for leaflets, hall hire, etc. Should Lee Flying Association not succeed in its objective the balance of the fund will be retained for future challenges of the Lee “Status Quo”, or donated to one or more charities with an aviation or local community perspective. Contributions to this fund are not refundable.

2) The "Lee High Court Injunction Fund" was opened at the request of people who attended the LFA open meeting on 28th October 2007. Contributions will be used solely in pursuit of legal remedies. Legal remedies are a last resort. No legal proceedings will be sought without first having sought appropriate legal advice, which will also be paid for from this fund. The intention of the Lee Flying Association is to repay as high a percentage as possible of contributions made to the "Lee High Court Injunction Fund" in the event that the injunction concludes successfully (see note 3 below). If an injunction case is lost it is possible that this fund balance would reduce to zero. In such a case the contributions to the fund cannot be repaid to the contributors, and further, voluntary, contributions may be required.

To contribute to either of the Lee Flying Association funds, simply do one of the following:-

Make a donation over the counter at any Bank or Building Society or via Internet Banking. Please e-mail jon.flying@googlemail.com afterwards to give details of your donation and which fund you want it credited to.	If donating over the counter simply fill in a paying in slip with the following details:- Bank: HSBC, 71 West Street, Fareham, Hants A/C: Lee Flying Association Code: 40-21-03 A/C No: 61805770
Send a Cheque payable to "Lee Flying Association" for the value you wish to contribute, clearly annotated on the reverse side "LEE FIGHTING FUND" OR "LEE INJUNCTION FUND" with your NAME, and optionally your preferred contact details.	Send Your Cheque to: Lee Flying Association Treasurer c/o Malcolm Barton 48 Ranvilles Lane Fareham PO14 3EA

Lee Flying Association thanks you for your invaluable financial and moral support!

Note 1): The choice of fund to contribute to is yours – the Fighting Fund provides greatest flexibility to the LFA Committee, however the Injunction fund enables greater amounts of money to be contributed with an opportunity for the contributor to recover the bulk or a portion of the contribution. (Unmarked or unidentified contributions will be allocated to the Lee Fighting Fund)

Note 2): Lee Flying Association have already received numerous requests asking for guidance on the amount to donate. In short please feel free to donate as much or a little as you wish and are able to afford. All Lee aircraft owners (whose fees have not been collected by HPASU/MCA for 18 months) are invited to contribute at least 50% of the value of those fees, and the whole value of uncollected fees (or more) if at all possible. Initial contributions range from £100-£1000 pounds, smaller or larger contributions gratefully received.

Note 3): The rules on injunction costs are a little complex (and LFA are on a learning curve) but crudely the winning party obtains an order from a judge which either agrees a value of costs or a clause that says “Costs to be Taxed”.

LFA current understanding is that in the latter case there is a taxation clerk in the courts who examines all of the account from your solicitor. The winning party may not recover all of it’s costs, as when the bill from solicitors are examined in detail some costs maybe for say advice not directly linked to a case, and are therefore not recoverable.

As an example, a company winning £250k in a case against another company, and having spent £135k in relation to bringing the case may have its costs taxed (recovered) at £120k - if the taxation clerk determines that £15k of the costs were not directly linked with the case. Therefore the winning party may not recover all of its costs.

All contributions made specifically to the Lee High Court Injunction Fund (as opposed to the separate Lee Fighting Fund) will be ring-fenced for the purposes of one or more injunctions or other legal remedies. In the event of a successful end to legal proceedings of whatever type the LFA intention is to repay in % terms the funds remaining back to the Injunction funds contributors. For example if the injunction funds gets to £25000 a contribution of £1000 would equates to 4%; if then at the end, the fund stands at £18,000 that contributor would be returned 4% of the fund, in this example, £720.

Note 4) LFA reserves the right to modify its position regarding the funds as its understanding of the legal and other processes deepens. However LFA hopes it is clear from its statements about the funds above that the LFA values are to manage the funds with integrity.

Copyright 2008 Lee Flying Association Ltd. Information on this website does not necessarily reflect the views of the Maritime & Coastguard Agency, Hampshire Constabulary, or the South East England Development Agency. While every care is taken in preparing the material on this site it may contain errors. Users should satisfy themselves of the accuracy of any information before relying on it.