One of the leading lights of the bid to run Kings Heath Community Centre is currently a Director of a company in liquidation.
Readers of this blog will know that the three individuals who set up the organisation to seek a community asset transfer from Labour Birmingham City Council were Labour Councillor, Lisa Trickett, ex-Labour Councillor Bryan Nott (Trickett’s partner), and Matt Powell the Manager of Kings Heath BID (Business Improvement District [sic]). They also set up a Crowdfunder scheme to extract funds from members of the public.
Matt Powell has confirmed to Crow Multimedia that he is one and the same person as Matthew James Powell, a Director of bust Revive and Thrive [sic] Limited. The latest Liquidator’s Reports shows unsecured book debts of £338,175.11 and creditors have put in claims for £291,320.22. Powell says that the liquidation, which started in 2021, was brought about by Covid (although it is also fair to say that many retail companies thrived during the pandemic as people splurged from their settees).
Curiously the liquidation is ongoing but there appear to be no company assets to realise and so the creditors face substantial financial losses.
Meanwhile Trickett and Nott are sitting pretty. This blog exclusively showed how they, and a person believed to be their daughter, have plundered the profits from a "co-op" they run - Places in Common - so that it has been making annual losses of late. Read all about it here:
https://crowmultimedia.blogspot.com/2026/01/the-thurd-sector-4-places-in-common.html
NOTE 26/02/26 - a weirdo is ranting that the picture is not Powell's business. As I clearly state that Powell's company went bust in 2021 and Dump didn't even open until 2023 I thought most locals would not make such a "connection". I was wrong!
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