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Trust Chair programme notes for Leamington
Welcome once again to the Attis Arena for this afternoon’s home game v Leamington. Welcome to any travelling Brakes fans: the nickname coming from the club’s roots of being the works team of Lockheed, Borg and Beck who produced brakes for the automotive industry. Highlights of the recent Trust board meeting held on Wednesday 26th…
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Trust Chair programme notes for Darlington
Good evening to all Iron supporters and those travelling Quakers fans making the trip this evening. Good news on the Ross Barrows football card which raised a whopping £1000 from Trust members and fellow Iron fans. The monies will be utilised on Ross’s long-term recovery. The prize went to Anna Wilkinson who correctly picked out…
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Reading FC and petition for Parliamentary Inquiry into disastrous ownership
You may have heard of the disastrous ownership issues at Reading. The Chinese owners have taken the club from crisis to crisis but are not willing or able to sell. The local MP for Reading, Ms Yuan Yang, is raising a petition for a Parliamentary Inquiry into the ownership issues (see Yuan Yang/status). We know…
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Memories of Trust Member Barry Wilkinson, 75 years an Iron!
A few brief sentences are in the Darlington Trust newsletter but these don’t do justice to Barry’s memories so we’ve posted a fuller version here on the website. I’m sure he could write a book about his experiences but Barry has kept it to less than 700 words. From Barry’s pen; “I was 10 years…
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Trust Chair’s leading role in local community initiative “kids against carbon”
The FSA are launching their Green Football Weekends in March based around “Help save kit from landfill” and our own SUFC have installed solar panels on the main stand roof so it seems timely to tell about Trust Chair Tony Gosling’s own personal involvement in an environmentally friendly scheme.
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Iron Trust Chair’s Scarborough Programme notes
Derby day for the Iron as we welcome our old league friends from the lovely seaside resort of Scarborough to the Attis Arena. Welcome to travelling Seadogs fans who will be large in number and no doubt vocal. As previously reported the Iron Trust had an extremely busy January, but still managed to attend the…
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Presenting the winner of the SUFC 125 year anniversary pack from the Trusts’ Football teams card
With the postponement of the Brackley home game it wasn’t until January 28th (Needham Market) that we were able to hand over the SUFC 125 year anniversary pack to the winners from our Football teams Card. Trust Vice-Chair Dave Beverley (right) handed the pack over to Shaun Marshall (on left of the picture) was the…
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Informal meeting of regional Trust groups
Tony Gosling, Dave Beverley and Steve Hawes attended a meeting at Grantham Town FC on Thursday 23rd January. Representatives from the Trusts at Lincoln City, Grimsby Town, Northampton Town and Leicester City attended for what was an interesting evening. This was the first meeting and each Trust introduced themselves, discussed how they functioned, raised funds…
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Trust Chair Needham Market Programme notes
Hello once again to this the last of three home games in a week versus Needham Market who are managed by Kevin Horlock. Welcome to any Marketmen travelling supporters. We have had very positive feedback from many Trust members who are looking forward to our AGM tomorrow night at the Berkeley Hotel 7pm where new…