Mariners Trust..  Have your say!!

Something from the trust for fans to have their say....  Get your points across!!

As a Trust Board, we are seeking the views of our members as to what they think our next moves should be.  

http://www.marinerstrust.co.uk/the-mariners-trust-where-next/

We will collate all questions and comments emailed to suggestions@marinerstrust.co.uk and ask that these are sent to us by 9pm on Tuesday 1st August at the latest

Not sounding to promising maybe they have had enough of towing the party line

Quoted from 1mickylyons

Not sounding to promising maybe they have had enough of towing the party line

It is some considerable time since the question was asked. Any representative organisation should be involving members on a regular basis in directing the direction of travel. When the Trust was originally set up all those years ago representation at Board level was by and large deemed to be the Holy Grail. We have now had several years of such representation and the time is ripe to ask the question.

This is a worrying state of affairs when The Trust are no longer sure of their role or their future. Although they have a board member they have no influence. They can have their say but then must tow the party line. It is a great shame after the great effort put in over the years to get itself established and make a difference. Expect many to cancel their membership and we will see a slow painful death of well meaning, hard working organisation.

Quoted from oldun

This is a worrying state of affairs when The Trust are no longer sure of their role or their future. Although they have a board member they have no influence. They can have their say but then must tow the party line. It is a great shame after the great effort put in over the years to get itself established and make a difference. Expect many to cancel their membership and we will see a slow painful death of well meaning, hard working organisation.

A bit of a drama queen response imo.

The trust are asking their membership questions, which they should more often IMO. The Trust needs to be more representative of their membership and the only way to do that is to ask the members views.

It may be that the membership decide that the Trust should continue with the representation on the club board, personally I think they should because it is easier to have a degree of influence from the inner sanctum rather than a few messages on a message board but again that is for the members to decide.

Maybe the decision will be to leave the board and have a more radical voice from the stands, either way it has to be right that the Trust Board are guided by their membership who they represent IMO. We could have both but it means upsetting King J from time to time

Quoted from Cloudy

A bit of a drama queen response imo.

The trust are asking their membership questions, which they should more often IMO. The Trust needs to be more representative of their membership and the only way to do that is to ask the members views.

It may be that the membership decide that the Trust should continue with the representation on the club board, personally I think they should because it is easier to have a degree of influence from the inner sanctum rather than a few messages on a message board but again that is for the members to decide.

Maybe the decision will be to leave the board and have a more radical voice from the stands, either way it has to be right that the Trust Board are guided by their membership who they represent IMO. We could have both but it means upsetting King J from time to time

Interesting timing for me. I think we've all been to meetings where we sit there and think that we're wasting our time and not influencing what's going on and the truth is that the opinions of those with finance involved will always outweigh those without.

Personally think that the Trust have done a pretty good job bearing that in mind.

In board meetings can we publish the minutes to avoid any confusion on who says what etc  would definitely clear up lots of issues

Quoted from oldun

This is a worrying state of affairs when The Trust are no longer sure of their role or their future. Although they have a board member they have no influence. They can have their say but then must tow the party line. It is a great shame after the great effort put in over the years to get itself established and make a difference. Expect many to cancel their membership and we will see a slow painful death of well meaning, hard working organisation.

I cannot think of anyone on the Trust Board who isn't aware that our role is to represent the views of our members supporters of GTFC.

As a long standing TRUST member I've just sent in my suggestion for the future. Hope I'm not a lone voice asking to consider the club becoming fan owned where the TRUST would really be able to determine where the club goes rather than accepting collective responsibility over decisions they don't agree with.