Teenage apprentice owed hundreds of pounds after company goes into administration

“I should declare my interest by saying that my daughter was left high and dry by this Haynes conman, promised training and left with no job and no money. I've been doing a bit of investigating into his business dealings and it's not a pretty picture.

FormerWalwyn has summed it up quite nicely. Bill Haynes is a serial business failure and conman, his LinkedIn page makes him look like some kind of business guru lol. He has distanced himself from his directorships of Walwyn, Mymar, Vedu and Lime by only declaring his Chair position at Ekode Holdings which is nothing more than a shell company holding these others.

It is a matter of pubic record that he was actually sacked by his last employers for gross misconduct and they are now suing him for hundreds of thousands of pounds he allegedly stole. Although they wouldn't speak to me directly I have it on good authority that he's been waging a campaign against them to try and put them out of business before they bury him in court.

He set up in business with a guy called Carl Roderick who was co director of Lime and Vedu, Roderick was jailed last year for 3 years for fraud and both Lime and Vedu have gone bust chucking dozens of people out of work and leaving dozens of others with unpaid invoices to them.

There's a serious whiff of fraud over the collapse of Lime too and Haynes is being investigated by liquidators over it. Vedu's "office address" is a derelict building in Bath where no-one has even heard of Haynes and Walwyn's supposed head office in London W1 is a post address next to a pub - nothing more than a tactic to make it look legit by giving it a Mayfair postcode. Both Walwyn and Mymar are now showing as "in liquidation" on Company Check.

As far as Trask goes, it appears that she was made redundant by her former employer and has followed Haynes to Ekode. He installed her as a patsy director of Walwyn before it went bust so his name didn't appear - it's all about as murky as it gets.

I feel really sorry for anyone who has been caught up with these con artists Haynes and Trask and here's hoping that the police net will close on both of them some time soon.”

“A few hundred quid. What about the company owner is has probably lost everything and may owe more than you will ever earn.”

“thousands of pounds per month ???
If he's earning that why go and work in a charity shop ***”

“News flash! - Walwyn NEVER DID go into administration! - Check with Companies House!

On of their directors; Sarah Jane-Trask of Bridgwater in Somerset, issued an e mail on December 3rd 2012 on behalf of herself and CEO Bill Haynes and the company as a whole stating that they had gone in administration and that all creditors including staff who are owed many many thousands in pay and out of pocket expenses, should refer to the administrators - John Power Ltd. However, no one can find any record of this comnpany or this man, no contact details were given other than a private gmail address, and the Insolvency Service keep advising that Walwyn are STILL an active company, although the two directors previously mentioned have both removed their names from the records. Just to give you an idea of the calibre of people you're dealing with, a third director, Carl Roderick was jailed for corporate fraud on the 5th of November 2012, due to his major part in a scam from one of his prior business concerns.
Staff were also informed on the 19th of November by Sarah-Jane Trask that a large amount of government funds paid to Walwyn had "gone missing".
If any company owes you money and makes false declarations of insolvency in order to avoid paying you, this is fraud, and as such, you should report the matter to Action Fraud 0300 123 2040.
I promise you that all of the staff are just as angry about this as you are, and even before the company's "collapse" several of us had got wind of apprentices not being paid and were already asking questions of the directors over this.
The biggest frustration right now is that few enforcement agencies seem to be overly worried by all this or active or bringing those responsible to justice.
Bringing the matter to the attention of the media is a good course of action as long as the press outlet concerned is also big enough and brave enough to tackle this head on.
Why is it that the Skills Funding Agency, a government body for instance, seems totally unaware or uninterested that (allegedly) tens if not hundreds of thousands of pounds of their money has seemingly vanished? Especially when stories used to be rife from Walwyn Head Office about Bill Haynes and Carl Roderick taking many thousands of pounds in "dividends" each month?!!!
We the staff have done so much to try and bring these people to justice, but no one really seems to be listening - maybe you can do better! We all hope so!”

“gromfrog doing well i here - hope the tax man knows stop moaning knuckle down man up and crack on”

“Although some of the article is true, can I add that Ryan was informed of the situation.

ryan also failed to mention that he actually runs a thriving 3d copying business which nets him thousands of pounds per month - so therefore can be deemed by some as employed!

The experience he had is worth something as he can add this to his cv.

The whole situation was however disappointing for all concerned.

Mymar and walwyn staff worked extremely hard for all of the learners and unlike Ryan have not recieved a penny of their wages owed. The staff worked without pay for a long period time and have accepted that they will not recieve expenses for months of work that was paid from their own pocket.”

“You failed to mention that you own a a thriving business that nets you tens of thousands of pounds....”

“Apprentice? Really?
Any suggestions why the country has a desparate shortage of skilled engineers?
Apprenticeships have become like degrees - worthless.”

“harryblack:
Which part of the word cotract don't you understand me ole mucker,when you get a minute google "definition of a contract".”

“"RBS boss Stephen Hester insists
"I DO deserve my £780,000 bonus, after describing his £1.6million basic pay as 'modest"

------------------------------------We are ALL in this TOGETHER LOL.”