Committee Issues

I’m a committee member of a sports club, I was on said committee last year and everything went reasonably smoothly.

This year the guard has changed, one of the new members has basically started to belittle me at every committee meeting, and is also slandering me behind my back telling people I’m incompetent and “I’m not delivering”.

He texts during work hours asking for a quick call and basically slates me over the smallest things without actually saying what the problem is until he had had a twenty minute conversation over the smallest immaterial things that I have done, where if he actually told me the issue I could say an easy solution. Hence going back into work and life feeling emotionally drained.

At committee meetings when I am updating on my remit, he shuffles papers, rolls his eyes, shuffling papers, asking what’s the point, questions literally everything I do badgering me to try and wind me up and asking leading questions that he knows the answer to in order to test me. I am the only person he does this to at present. I’m surprised that people don’t see this. I’m not overly sensitive as I work in a stressful job, but in that this behavior would never be accepted.

We have had two committee members and a coach resign because of them this year, yet still people think the sunshines out of his arse. He has done good work and a lot of work for the club and I agree with that.

The easiest thing would be to resign but would not be a solution to the problem, it would just solve it for myself.

I would in a work place environment go to HR... but I’ve no idea how to deal with it on a committee.