Category: News
The Iron Trust quiz night: a great night with Winterton Iron taking the honours.
Thank you to everyone who came to the quiz night last Friday, it was a great success. We had 8 quiz teams with 35 players in total. Tony Gosling set the questions and was question-master on the night. We now know which EFL club has the smallest capacity stadium, who the Irons’ first ever league…
Fill up with Christmas Stocking fillers from the Trust
The Alfreton home game today is one of only two opportunities to buy our goodies in the run up to Xmas; the other being Hereford on December 21st. Please feel free to drop in at Trust Corner and see us to buy our collection of Christmas cards, coasters, pencils, mugs and the ever-popular array of…
We have a winner of the SUFC 125 year anniversary pack with the Trusts’ Football teams card
The last few team were sold before the Kings Lynn home game on NYE (great work Dave Beverley). The winning team was Swansea City and the luck winner will collect his 125 pack before Saturdays home game against Brackley after which we hope to update this post with a photo and name! That’s a great…
Alfreton Programme notes from the Trust Chair
It’s back to the Attis Arena for the home clash v Alfreton and we extend a warm welcome to any travelling Reds fans. Time for a catch up on the Iron Trust player of the month awards; the email voting invitation will be going out in the next few days for the November award so…
The Trusts’ Player of the Month competition has its first sponsor
We are pleased to be able to welcome C Woodward Plumbing, Heating and Property Services as our first sponsor of the Player of the Month (PoM) and Player of the Season awards. Many thanks to Chris for his generosity. The invitation to vote for PoM goes out to 838 Trust Members every month. There’s room…
Iron Trust Newsletter has its first sponsors
Welcome and thank you to the first two sponsors of the Trust newsletter, Murray Engineering Systems and Alan Reid Design and Print. The Trust newsletter is produced for all Trust members before every home league game. It updates members on Trust activities and our many initiatives to raise funds. The Trust is non-profit organisation and…
Farsley Celtic programme notes from the Trust Chair’
As ever a warm welcome to Farsley Celtic and any of the travelling Celt Army. Firstly a breakdown of the Iron Trust income sources which has allowed us to buy a £10,000 stake in our club. Membership fees have provided most of our purchasing power with membership numbering 1029. Lifetime membership costs £10 with a further…
Sponsor the Iron Trust Newsletter
Due to the Trust now having rapidly increased membership we are now going to have to pay for the emailing out of our regular e-newsletter whereas so far it has been free, So can we interest a local business to sponsor our Trust Newsletter for the rest of the season? The newsletter is sent to…
Highlights from the Iron Trust Board meeting held on October 2nd, 2024
The topics below are not the Minutes of the meeting as they are not formally approved until the next Trust Board meeting which is the 20th November. That’s a bit of a wait so we thought we’d publish below some general notes on the topics discussed. Membership incentivesWe now have 1,029 members. We want to…
Oxford City; Trust Chair’ Programme notes
Good afternoon for today’s match against Oxford City; the first game between our two sides and a warm welcome to any travelling Hoops fans visiting the Attis Arena. The Iron Trust board met last Wednesday at the Berkeley Hotel with two main agenda items one being fund raising the other our own website. Steve Hawes,…