Yes you read that correctly - it's unbelievable! Whilst everyone wants to see our Pavilion and cinema bailed out to give it the successful future it deserves there are few people in Penarth who have any faith in PACL given their total mismanagement of the Pavilion 1) Our cinema closed at short notice as PACL had NOT paid the ICO for film hire charges 2) 1700 people have signed this petition calling for the cinema to be saved yet nobody has been willing to engage with us - the cinema going public of Penarth - over it's future which is so disappointing 3) Our elected local politicians do not appear to want to engage with us over a way forward Now it has emerged that the Heritage Lottery Fund has made yet another large grant to PACL from its Resilient Heritage Programme - this time £126,000! This is meant 'to provide essential financial support to organisations looking to develop a sustainable business model for their organisation' and comes just a matter of years after the Lottery made a similar grant of £200k from its Coastal Communities Fund for a similar reason - which was clearly all spent with nothing left to show for it in terms of sustainability So why make yet another grant to bail out a charity that has clearly mismanaged the Pavilion so badly? I know of a historic local church in this area which was turned down a small funding bid of around £10k to HLF on grounds that with fewer people playing the Lottery then there is much less grant available! Where's the community engagement/consultation in this? Why in PACL's press release is there NO MENTION OF REOPENING OUR CINEMA? This was the major concern for the residents of Penarth? Why are our locally elected representatives silent and unwilling to engage - myself ( and others I know) have received NO replies to last few e mails on the subject? How can this be right ? The whole situation around PACL is a disgrace and there should now be an enquiry into how yet more grant money is being given to PACL by HLF supported by the Vale of Glamorgan Council