Roberta Gray v Shankill Women’s Centre [2017]

The claimant had been the manager responsible for an education support project. The respondent organisation experienced significant difficulty in securing funding and had made various efforts to secure alternative funding to make up the shortfall it suffered. At the same time, unsuccessful applications had been made for another project and relevant staff had been made redundant yet the claimant remained in employment, even though funding had not been fully secured for the education support project. Eventually the claimant was made redundant with the reason of lack of funding cited as the reason.

The claimant was kept informed of the problems throughout but alleged that the respondent had