A former trustee of Wroxall Community Association (WCA) has told a public meeting that she was shown recordings containing audio from Stenbury Hall’s CCTV system on personal devices.
Donna Walton was speaking at a meeting held last Thursday (15th October 2026), called by The View Cafe’s operator Aviv Goode in response to claims made at a meeting WCA held for hall users on 3rd October.
More than 50 people attended last week’s meeting, where Aviv’s news of plans to purchase the village’s only pub under a new Community Benefit Society was announced.
CCTV audio
Ms Walton, who was appointed a trustee in January 2026, said she had “witnessed the sharing of material on personal devices which contained audio.”
She said she found the content distressing and did not know why she had been shown it.
She said Ms Goode had raised concerns verbally for months, and that she and other trustees had echoed those concerns, but had been “met with resistance and reluctance to switch off the audio” by the two remaining trustees, Chair Jon Steele and Treasurer Mic Prior.
She told the meeting it was “untruthful” to suggest that the audio had been switched off as soon as it was identified.
Ms Walton said she had raised concerns about the CCTV and the charity’s governance with the Charity Commission as a whistleblowing complaint.
The Commission has told OnTheWight it is “actively assessing” concerns raised about WCA.
What WCA has said about the audio
WCA said in a statement in September that the system had audio capability that “had not been switched off,” but that audio “was not being listened to outside one specific situation where the person was notified.”
It said audio capability had been disabled and all previous recordings deleted, and that the Information Commissioner’s Office had confirmed there was no data breach.
A written statement WCA presented at its meeting with hall users on 3rd October, and has since provided to OnTheWight, said the system had audio capability since installation, and that while audio “was not routinely listened to,” it had “in the past been used to assist police with other issues.”
WCA told OnTheWight that 44 people attended that meeting, the majority of them groups and people who regularly use the hall.
Ms Walton told Thursday’s meeting she had seen no evidence that the ICO had completed its investigation.
Removal as a trustee
Ms Walton said her position as a trustee was terminated on 10th September with a list of allegations which she said “contained no particulars and were vague sweeping statements.”
She said she had not been offered the opportunity to respond to them, and that she “wholeheartedly” denies them.
OnTheWight has seen the letter informing Ms Walton of her removal. Dated 9th September and signed by Mr Steele on behalf of the board, it says the decision followed “the formal process set out in our governing document” and lists four grounds, including sharing confidential information and attending a public meeting against a majority vote of trustees. It does not give dates or examples, and does not invite her to respond.
It ends:
“This decision is final.”
WCA has previously said the removal was in line with its constitution and was notified to the Charity Commission with supporting evidence.
Ms Walton said she intends to pursue her grievances against the two remaining trustees through the courts.
The constitution
Ms Walton said she was never given a copy of the charity’s constitution while a trustee, and had relied on the 1988 constitution published on the Charity Commission’s website, under which Wroxall residents can be members.
The Charity Commission has since confirmed that WCA’s current governing document is a declaration of trust dated February 2021, with trustees’ signatures dated June 2022. It contains no membership provisions.
WCA’s response
OnTheWight put Ms Walton’s comments to WCA, Mr Steele and Ms Prior.
In response, WCA said,
“Please note that anything discussed between trustees that is confidential during their time of service is expected, under charity law, to remain confidential even after the person is no longer a trustee. Trustees always follow the majority vote, regardless of their opinions during discussions.”
It added,
“If Donna would like to discuss the reasons behind matters regarding her relationship with the charity, she can contact either trustee to discuss the process. We remain open to having a full discussion with Donna regarding this matter.”
Responding to WCA’s statement, Ms Walton told OnTheWight she had never been offered a meeting or discussion with the trustees.
She said she was given no notice of her removal and no opportunity to defend herself, and that for around six weeks beforehand she had been excluded from information shared among trustees.
Ms Walton said she had since tried to book the hall for meetings, a Halloween event and a surprise birthday party, and that her bookings had been refused.
She said she had been told by a parish councillor that she had been excluded from the community centre, but had received nothing in writing from WCA.
Questions put to WCA
On Monday this week, OnTheWight also asked WCA how Mr Steele and Ms Prior respond to Ms Walton’s account of resistance to switching off the audio; whether trustees’ personal devices were used to share recordings; which clause of its governing document set out the process for her removal; how many trustees took part in that decision; whether she was given an opportunity to respond; why the grounds for her removal were included in the statement presented to hall users on 3rd October; and whether she has been excluded from the hall or had bookings refused.
WCA had not responded to these questions by the time of publication (Wednesday evening).
