If you are coming can you print out a few and bring them along.
AGENDA FOR SECOND MEETING FOR A CHARLTON ATHLETIC SUPPORTERS’ TRUST
Time, date and venue
7.30 pm Tuesday 15 September 2009
Conservative Club
51 Charlton Church Lane
SE7 7AE
Purpose of Meeting
This is meeting for Charlton fans to find out more about the concept of a Supporters’ Trust and to vote on the proposal to establish a Trust.
Agenda
1. Q & A with James Mathie - Supporters’ Direct (www.supporters-direct.org), Kris Stewart (Director Supporters’ Direct and former Chair of AFC Wimbledon) and Tony Hudd, Kent Messenger.
2. Vote on proposal to establish a Supporters’ Trust for fans of Charlton Athletic
3. Establishing an interim board and working parties from volunteers willing to contribute
4. Open discussion on possible aims of the Charlton Athletic Supporters’ Trust
5. Date of next meeting, any other business and close
This is an open meeting and all fans are welcome to attend. We hope to publish notes from the meeting as soon as practical after the event. There will be other meetings and opportunities for fans to contribute and become involved if the Trust idea is taken forward.
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Comments
Hope all goes well.
The agenda looks back to front to me, though. Surely you need potential aims/objectives before you decide if you want a Trust or not?
You build a boat BECAUSE you want to sail across the sea. You don't build the boat, appoint a captain and a crew and then try to work out what you might do with it.
This kind of comment is exactly why I could not stomach attending one of these meetings. Fair play to all of you who sacrifice time and effort in doing all this and I'm sure it is for the benefit of the club and the fans. But sitting through one of these meetings would drive me barmy! What difference does it make what order the agenda is in?!
That is why there is an Q & A at the beginning to look at what other Trusts have done and how they have gone about things.
If people think that having a legal entity which is democratic and accountable then they will vote for a Trust. The aims of the Trust can then to thrashed out in discussion tonight or in the future as more people get involved. They can be voted on and changed over time as the issues facing the Trust and Club change.
Anyway the people from Supporters' Direct will explain it much better than me.
good. Any complaints about the structure of the agenda ??
why would the FF need representing ? The Trust and FF are independant of each other and have different aims imo.
not really
what happened ?
Next meeting Wednesday 14th October.
With all due respect, you kind of miss my point. The reason that the order is important is based on the fact that you can't realistically vote whether to have a Trust when you aren't clear what the objectives are. I think that's why there were only 25 people there - at the outset nobody was quite sure what the purpose was, so why would people buy into it? But I suppose you can have the approach which says "Hey - let's have a group anyway. Who really cares why?". Doesn't usually last too long when you start out that way, in my experience.
Nevertheless it was a decent meeting and there is a proposed set of objectives which, if ratified by a wider group, will provide some distinction between what a Supporters' Trust is all about compared to the aims of the Supporters' Club and the aims of the Fans' Forum. These things can clearly be seen as complementing one another, provided the aims of each group are clear.
Now it's down to the energy of those who put their hands up at the meeting - and to the 1,000 or more of you who couldn't make it, but who are supportive of the objectives, whatever they finally prove to be.
The trust is on its way and so there ends my involvement.
I dont know all those who offered to be actiing officers but a good blend of youth and experience. There is still an open door for anyone else so dont hold back. Get involved.
Is there enough drive or numbers to make this trust succeed.
Not criticising, as I wouldnt be able to give my time and energy into something like this, so fair play to all those that have/will.
Also the weather last night didn't help numbers wise.
What supporters need is a body which is accountable to them, elected by them and isn't simply at the gift at the club, last night was the start, hopefully next month will see things develop even more,
Look forward to hearing about it.
I simply can't spare the time to attend meetings right now, otherwise I would.
Having 7 or so people there last night who would stand for the interim committee was great to see.