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Proposed Charlton Fans Protest Fund - Your views please
Davo55
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I'm looking for your views please - support, suggestions and constructive criticism.
Just yesterday, I posted that we needed to set up a "war chest" to help support the growing number of fans protests. Some requests for financial help have already been made for individual protest initiatives and several of us have contributed financially to these. However, my view is that the time is now right for a fighting fund to be established, the "war chest". This would be used to meet reasonable requests for financial support for all forms of fans protests against Duchatelet and Meire: leaflets, banners, flags, events, props - whatever, as long as it is legal.
Nothing to stop individuals seeking support for their own protest activities but the advantage of having a fund set up and ready to use is that money would be available virtually immediately.
In brief, the proposal is :
* to set up a Charlton Fans Protest Fund
* the fund would be administered jointly by Davo55 and Curb_It, who has agreed in principle to be my co-organiser if a fund is established.
* we would require a brief statement saying what form the protest will take, how much money is sought and what it will be used for. Using email rather than posting details on Charlton Life - for obvious reasons.
* all funding decisions, i.e whether to support and with how much, would be at our discretion taking into account the strength of the claim and the funds available. To be absolutely clear, people who donate would be putting their money and decision making on distribution into our hands, and while popular opinion would naturally be taken into consideration, those donating would not be able to determine how their contribution may or may not be used. There will be no specific decision making criteria beyond its legality.
* a record would be kept of all funds raised and how they were distributed. This, redacted to exclude personal information as necessary, would be available to all contributors at a later point.
* any money donated but not spent for whatever reason would go the Upbeats.
I would kick the fund off with £100 of my own, and I hope we could together make a real difference, and help to get our Charlton back.
What do you think Lifers?
Cheers
Alan
Just yesterday, I posted that we needed to set up a "war chest" to help support the growing number of fans protests. Some requests for financial help have already been made for individual protest initiatives and several of us have contributed financially to these. However, my view is that the time is now right for a fighting fund to be established, the "war chest". This would be used to meet reasonable requests for financial support for all forms of fans protests against Duchatelet and Meire: leaflets, banners, flags, events, props - whatever, as long as it is legal.
Nothing to stop individuals seeking support for their own protest activities but the advantage of having a fund set up and ready to use is that money would be available virtually immediately.
In brief, the proposal is :
* to set up a Charlton Fans Protest Fund
* the fund would be administered jointly by Davo55 and Curb_It, who has agreed in principle to be my co-organiser if a fund is established.
* we would require a brief statement saying what form the protest will take, how much money is sought and what it will be used for. Using email rather than posting details on Charlton Life - for obvious reasons.
* all funding decisions, i.e whether to support and with how much, would be at our discretion taking into account the strength of the claim and the funds available. To be absolutely clear, people who donate would be putting their money and decision making on distribution into our hands, and while popular opinion would naturally be taken into consideration, those donating would not be able to determine how their contribution may or may not be used. There will be no specific decision making criteria beyond its legality.
* a record would be kept of all funds raised and how they were distributed. This, redacted to exclude personal information as necessary, would be available to all contributors at a later point.
* any money donated but not spent for whatever reason would go the Upbeats.
I would kick the fund off with £100 of my own, and I hope we could together make a real difference, and help to get our Charlton back.
What do you think Lifers?
Cheers
Alan
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Who is Alan? I'm not trying to be funny, but it would be useful to know who the three people involved are.0
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Have either of you spent time in prison for fraud?15
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Joking aside that's a cracking idea0
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Sounds great idea to me2
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I'm in.1
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Floated this idea a few weeks back and am in if you get it organised!1
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Not as yet touch wood. I've held a few 1000 pounds over the last 8 years on behalf of Lifers and not got in any trouble yet. So we should be ok.Uboat said:Have either of you spent time in prison for fraud?
The account I have is dormant and is only ever used for the shirt sponsorship. We still have approx 900 quid in there which is already allocated to the Upbeats as and when we have a project for them.
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Cool. Let's do it then.Curb_It said:
Not as yet touch wood. I've held a few 1000 pounds over the last 8 years on behalf of Lifers and not got in any trouble yet. So we should be ok.Uboat said:Have either of you spent time in prison for fraud?
The account I have is dormant and is only ever used for the shirt sponsorship. We still have approx 900 quid in there which is already allocated to the Upbeats as and when we have a project for them.0 -
Please count me in. Is there any chance it could be a just giving type page where we can use a credit card rather than just pay pal? Would help me a lot as can't use my pay pal account and don't have internet banking.1
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Thanks @HantsAddick The problem with Just Giving is that they take 5% of all donations as a fee. That put us off, to be honest.HantsAddick said:Please count me in. Is there any chance it could be a just giving type page where we can use a credit card rather than just pay pal? Would help me a lot as can't use my pay pal account and don't have internet banking.
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Didn't know that, fair enough.0
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Hants if it goes ahead it can work just how we raise funds for the sponsorship. Cheques, online or Paypal. All payment details would be the same.
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Sounds good to me0
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Fine with me1
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I hope that as I have been collecting money from strangers for a fair few years now that you all trust me enough. It would all be the same details.2
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Good idea, happy to contribute.
Can i be the first to volunteer to lead a two week protest around belgiumsampling beeragainst Roland4 -
Selling scarfs online would be good, it helps spread the msg and gets funds trickling in0
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I would trust curb it with my life.Curb_It said:I hope that as I have been collecting money from strangers for a fair few years now that you all trust me enough. It would all be the same details.
Not the key to my wine cellar though.12 -
Count me in1
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Who are The Upbeats?0
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Excellent - I'm in
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I'll put money in chaps. Happy to0
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Count us in , please.0
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Maybe the time is right to form a completely fan led democratic alternative to Valley Gold, discuss.
I'm thinking of stopping my membership I have to admit, particularly after we were told the club didnt need the VIP money, and with all these undisclosed fees5 -
Sounds good0
