A LEADING Chorley charity worker is due to appear in court on a fraud charge next month.
Clive Yates - who has been prominent in Chorley Lions' fund-raising events - is accused of conspiracy to defraud his former employer Martin Brown Seafoods, Pisces House, Chaincaul Road, Docklands, Preston, where he worked in the accounts department for a year.
Police have confirmed that Mr Yates, aged 32, of Ash Road, Coppull, faces two other charges of false accounting.
He was also the former acting chairman of the town's Millennium Committee, but resigned at the beginning of January.
Mr Yates handed in a letter to the committee - set up in September to organise the Millennium celebrations in Chorley - saying he was stepping down for personal reasons.
He said he was resigning as acting chairman to be with his mother who was seriously ill with Parkinsons Disease at the time.
He added that he planned to return to carry on working with the committee this spring.
Mr Yates is due to appear at Preston Magistrates Court on Wednesday, April 8.
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