Trust Board Meeting Tomorrow

Quoted from HertsGTFC

So to be fair the minutes reflect the agenda which actually shouldn’t be a surprise to anyone as that’s the way most board meetings go.

I attend a few board meetings each year and usually if we want to add an agenda point at short notice we propose a resolution take a vote and if carried it gets added to the agenda. This is corporate law process not sure if applies to Trusts and charities but we used to work in that manner when I was part of my local rugby club exec. Usually in both spheres if it’s not on the written agenda it doesn’t get minuted unless it’s “raised AOB”.

When you read the minutes at the end it mentioned that a fan had sent in some questions relating to recruitment, retention and what their strategy will be going forward, we’ll that was me. I took the time to ask a couple of pertinent questions and tonight received a very polite and encouraging e-mail in response. I am not going to share it on here as it was private but the content said to me that the people involved in the Trust really care and are as worried as we are about our current predicament.

I am 100% sure that we will see some “policy” or “agenda” from them in the next couple of weeks. Will it be what we all want? I doubt it as “ you can please some of the people all the time and all of the people some of the time” .

What also needs to be recognised (my thoughts not their words) it’s that at this moment it’s a really challenging time for the club as a whole and there can only be one objective - to stay up. Once we know our league status my view it would be right for the Trust to release what they stand for and their objectives.

No doubt I’ll get called to fcuk on here for the above but taking the time to share my observations and questions with the Trust board felt like the right thing to do at the time.

UTM!!!

BTW - Don’t Red Cross as I tuned it off months ago 😉

Quoted from KingstonMariner

I think a lot of people would rather whinge than get involved and make a difference. But then mention of 're-branding' does smack of fiddling while Rome burns.

Quoted from HertsGTFC

Yeah quite possibly, but I do sense the people involved realise they need a big re-launch regardless of the outcome of the next few games.

I think “re-brand” is under cooking it a bit from the dialogue I have had there is a realisation that they need to move on quickly - quite a difficult task in a dictatorship

Quoted from KingstonMariner

Anyway, getting back to the point, time and effort and money spent re-branding is a big distraction from the real business in hand, and a waste of time. I think the time would be better spent getting the message out there why the Trust is (could be) important, what it can achieve and how people can help achieve it if they did join and got involved

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I think anything else is secondary. Especially when, as it reported the other month, the Trust is short of cash.

Quoted from ska face

Well what do to think a rebrand would entail - changing the logo? Getting some different headed paper? They’ve even mentioned in the minutes the need to review the membership prices. Are people being deliberately obtuse to make some kind of point?



Yet when they’ve suggested new methods of raising cash outside of memberships (smart phone quizzes for one) you’ve got people taking the urine saying they should be focussed on the revolution, rather than the day-to-day?