The chair of Nottingham's £55m New Deal for Communities project is facing a leadership challenge amid claims of incompetence and financial mismanagement.
Resident director Jo Thorpe was due to launch her bid to replace Delroy King as chair of Radford and Hyson Green NDC on Thursday. Thorpe is one of five resident directors behind a dossier, published in July, that included a list of failures of management at the NDC.

The dossier claims the NDC spent £582,470 on administration, 6% more than the budget allowed by central government guidelines. It also alleges the NDC underspent by £1.8m on projects and failed to create more than five jobs for local people, all while sending directors on £40,000, three-day "bonding" trips.

Tim Clark, a former resident director who resigned in protest at the way the NDC was being run, said: "The NDC management has no coherent strategy to deliver lasting change to the area. It's rewritten its delivery plan four times and lacks any innovation."

A spokesman for the NDC said the organisation would fight the challenge to the chair and was currently preparing a response to the dossier.

King is currently recovering from glandular fever.

Thorpe herself was unable to make any comments because of a ban on directors talking to the media.

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